Personal Learning Environments

What is PLE??? I had never heard of it before! Every lesson we discover something new! Last week we spoke about Persoonal Learning Environments. It is based on the idea that we never finish learning in our life and, especially, that we learn from each context! As I saw in Bloggingenglish studies (Cross, 200) have shown that only 20% of our learning actually takes place in institutional contexts whereas the remaining 80% takes place outside of the classroom in different periods of one’s life; I completely agree with this idea and I also think that a person's ability -  more or less in all fields -  cannot be judged just by his/her formal studies. You can have the most important degree but if you don't learn from other experiences, spaces, people, you are not so wise. PLE permits to create your personal map in order to have a clear idea of your learning spaces and means!


 As far as language is concerned, this is my Personal Learning Environments :



I have founf five different areas for my language learning: People, formal learning, experiences, storing information, gathering information.

PEOPLE:
In this area I list all the people with which I generally speak English. This aspect is very important because to
think of knowing a language and actually speak it, are two different things! Unfortunately, I don't speak often English here in Italy but I think that we should make use of all the occasions we have!

FORMAL LEARNING:
In this area I put all the formal moments in which I trained my English. As far as University is concerned, I specified the most important areas in which I improved my English. I also included my thesis because, doing it, I learnt a lot from language point of view too!

EXPERIENCES:
Life is full of experinces which are like a treasure for our knowledge! Here I put travels, thanks to which I spoke a lot and I come into contact with real language and life situations, work, and learning from my own mistakes!

STORING INFORMATION:
Here I list the tools which help me to store my important information.

GATHERING INFORMATION:
In this area I list all the other means by which I improve my English. They are songs, movies, books, podcasts, the Internet and so on. I think they are very important for me because they help you in learning by having fun!

That is all!
Bye bye!!