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A Graphic Tool for Self-Reflection on Digital Practices and Visualisation of one’s PLEs Villar Onrubia, Daniel; Lara, Tíscar; Freire, Juan; Mora, Llanos; Maya, Isidro; Pisani, Francis.
The Self-Reflection Tool on display serves a central role in the Module for the Development of Digital Competences offered by the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA) and the Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI) to their post-graduate students and teaching staff in 2010. The module is coordinated by the EspacioRed de Prácticas y Culturas Digitales UNIA. The main goal of the module is to help participants increase self-awareness of their media practices, in other words, to invite them to reflect on their interactions with the media ecologies in which their everyday lives are embedded. Beyond this overall aim, the module provides participants with hands-on experiences in developing new digital competences taking as a departing point their current practices. The module seeks to introduce and strenghen those skills and literacies which may be especially relevant to their particular needs as students, teachers, professionals and, more generally, as citizens in the digital age. As the outline of the module shows, one of the main activities is the visualisation of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). Twice during the course of the module (stages 1 & 3), this activity is carried out. Our experience so far is that this activity is a powerful strategy to help participants: a) increase self-awareness of the dimensions of their own PLEs; b) gain understanding on how their learning processes are framed into a interconnected and complex system of tools, practices, sources of information, and social relationships; c) Promote the improvement and extension of their PLEs. The PLE Self-Reflection Tool is introduced to the participants as a reference and guide that can assist them when undertaking the visualisation of their PLE. The primary functions of the Tool are to facilitate the identification of the range of resources that make up their PLE, and to support self-reflection on their individual digital practices, particularly those directly related to learning processes. Visually, the two dynamic circles included in the Tool represent the flexible and entangled relationship between resources and practices – and prompt competences involved in their enactment –, as these may be located at different points depending on how individual learners decide to harness the affordances offered by any available resources.
The module consists of 4 phases.
Stage 1
Introduction.
Knowledge
1. Face-to-face intro session.
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2. Readings and other recommended materials on · New media literacies & digital competences. · Personal Learning Environments. · Digital tools particularly helpful for the enhancement of learning processes. 3. Activity: Visualisation PLEs.
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Stage 2
Definition of projects. 4. Participants work on the defintion of projects involving the use of digital media.
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5. Briefings must include: · Main goals. · Competences and areas of the PLE to be expanded. · Selection and evaluation of tools. · References: similar projects.
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6. Feedback from tutors and other participants.
Stage 3
Realization of the projects.
8. PLEs are visualised again, highlighting those areas expanded after the project.
Publishing portfolios & wrap up. 9. Participants carry out their projects with the support of their tutor and other participants. 10. Final session
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7. Participants carry out their projects with the support of their tutor and other participants.
Stage 4
Information
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* Those tools marked in the diagram with an asterisk are being
used to carry out some of the activities of the module.
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