FINAL thoughts on PLE!

I must be honest, I am still a bit hazy about PLE's. I would not even try to define what a PLE is, because I might totally fail this course if I try to haha.

Anyway, I do have an interesting take on my experience with taking on PLE's this semester.

I do understand that every individual have their own ways of learning and their learning comes from the environment that they belong to. This BLOG is full of links and sources of what I personally think makes me learn. I have a lot of links on news channels/organizations, because I love reading and knowing the news, especially world news. I have links on websites regarding nature and mother earth. I have a strong feeling about the environment. I also have personal links in my blog, showing my "social" organizations such as facebook, youtube etc. All of these links that I put in my blog are sources of learnings in my environment that I find important.

By putting all of these links in my blog, I find myself saving time from opening one website after the other, to look for updates. Once I open my blog, I can see updates on the feeds that I linked. I guess my blog helped me organize everything.

So my blog now is not just an ordinary blog, but has become a Personal Learning Environment. I have never been a technical person before and just created a blog for Ms. Jing's class and now for Gerry's class. But I do see how PLE's like this blog can organize my life and see clearly from where I source out my learning.

For a final thought: PLE's are important to know, because in these times of globalization and so many things affecting our lives, we need a structure to make us focus on the things in our environment that affects our learning the most. By knowing our personal learning environment we may know more about ourselves and what we hope to be!