Indicators of a Healthy PLE

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Team Members:Helen MowersJerome BurgLarry AndersonPaviter SinghRoss AbelsTim ColemanTom Woodward

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What are indicators of a healthy learning environment?

Content Context

Community

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Component Beginning Building Sustaining

Content

• Differentiation is lead by teacher• Resources are provided in a variety

of formats (maps)• Use of current print or non print

static resources published by others • Accepts given information• Within a given domain

• Differentiation is shared between student and teacher

• Resources are interactive (Google Maps)

• Use of dynamic resources created by others

• Evaluates the accuracy of information across multiple domains

• Differentiation is student-led• Constructible• Students create their own resources

which are also interactive and shared online

• Use of dynamic resources created by students

• Contributes to the debate on the accuracy of information

• Interdisciplinary and real-world

Context

• Taking into consideration the needs, interests and learning styles of students

• Setting up the infrastructure to leverage on the existing physical environment

• Enabling personal learning in the classroom during lesson time

• Teacher scafolded personal learning with a high level of student engagement

• Taking into consideration the appropriate standards

• Taking into consideration the needs, interests and teaching styles of teachers

• Taking into consideration the needs and interests of parents

• Setting up the infrastructure for a virtual learning environment

• Enabling personal learning outside of the classroom within the school

• Teacher facilitated personal learning with students deciding on how they want to learn

• Taking into consideration the appropriate standards

• Taking into consideration the need and interests of the local, regional, national community

• Setting up the infrastructure to allow and enable frequent and "exible mobility between the physical and virtual environments (access at any place)

• Enabling personal learning outside of the school (access at anytime, all of the time)

• Student initiated personal learning with teachers serving as content guides

• Taking into consideration the appropriate standards

Community

• Network consists of others that live/work with you

• PLE members have similar interests/viewpoints/professions/backgrounds

• Network is face-to-face only, or built around the use of 1-2 tools

• Network is smaller in size

• Network consists of both local and regional/national participants

• PLE members have similar interests/viewpoints/professions/backgrounds, but some divergent thinkers may begin to be added

• Network is face-to-face and built around multiple tools

• Network is larger of members in network

• Network consists of local, regional/national, international participants

• Members have very diverse interests/viewpoints/professions/backgrounds

• Network "uctuates as owner becomes comfortable with joining/leaving various networks

• Network involves multiple face-to-face discussions and more than 2 tools

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Challenge Based LearningTeam Project Assessment

• How does your solution improve the opportunity for personalized learning?

• Is it feasible?

• Is it scalable?

• How does it leverage the use of modern technologies?

• How does it demonstrate understanding of personalized learning?

• How does it engage students in deep content?

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