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3 things you should know about Edupunk

Learning with 'e's

Should we use centralised services and endure all the constraints that accompany them, or should we instead use our own patchwork collection of tools, loosely aggregated social media and handheld personal devices that give us freedom, but at a price? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

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#EDENchat Up close and personal

Learning with 'e's

I have written a lot about Personal Learning Environments in the past, especially when they were emerging as a concept, and sounded quite new. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality. What is your experience of using PLEs in your own learning?

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Selfie number 10

Learning with 'e's

I first met Joyce at the first Personal Learning Environment (PLE) conference in Barcelona in 2009 and we have been friends ever since. We were sat just a couple of seats away from each other, and were already friends on social media. I also met George for the first time at the Barcelona PLE event.

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Selfie number 5

Learning with 'e's

I first met Alec Couros among that amazing gathering of people at the inaugural PLE (Personal Learning Environment) conference in Barcelona, in 2010. Alec is very influential in the world of learning technology, and has a huge following on Twitter and other social media channels.

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Selfie number 4

Learning with 'e's

I first met Graham at an event in the UK around 2006, just when I was becoming aware of the potential of social media such as wikis, blogs and social networking platforms as a learning tools. I then wrote and published a flurry of papers on social media and education, and around the same time I set up this blog.

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Ugh. Classic Politics Now Extends to Social Networking in Education.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

If someone had called, I would have said that this is project has at it''s core a mistaken idea: that social media and personal learning networks can be directed from the top down. It''s because these are individual connections created by the individual, and that is their value: they are personal.

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GlobalEdCon 2013 Day Four + Helping the New Grassroots Projects

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. We voted on five project to to focus on right away with a set of basic questions for each: " What do you want to do?

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