Who is in Charge of Learning?
Personal Learning Environment: A Student Centered Venture
The Platform
The Digital Marketplace of Ideas
A cornucopia of pages, documents, lectures, blogs, videos, forums, conferences, academoc support venues, production tools and more on the tablet or laptop sitting before you.
A Global Exchange
Neither distance nor time zone bar the exchange of ideas, or the combination of efforts to solve a problem.
The Student as Director
The student establishes his pace, her schedule. She chooses the place and coordinates the resources and the occasions for engagement.
The Student: A Contemplative in Learning
Student as Director, Decision Maker, and Actor
The PLE affords the student the resources and opportunity to learn and collaborate on the development of work with peers anytime and from any place. They become companions in learning who present their efforts and exchange feedback with other companions so that they might repurpose and recast their work, leading to a project characterized by greater credibility, clarity and conviction. The integration of the voices of students and educators stimulates the kind of innovation and creativity one finds in the professional academy and marketplace.
Students' projects emerge from their interests piqued by the diversity of learning experiences and resources in the PLE. They become conceivers of ideas, developers of plans, creators who realize, and contemplatives who through conversations with peers on each's contributions reflect on the wisdom and worth of their own efforts. In that contemplation students often ask the questions of depth. What is the good, or what is the better difference of what we are doing with our knowledge?
Dr. Dominic P Scibilia
St. Peter's Preparatory School
New Jersey' s Jesuit College Preparatory School
Email: scibiliad@spprep.org
Website: spprep.org
Location: 144 Grand Street, Jersey City, NJ
Phone: 201-547-6436