This is my topic and I should be well-versed about it but instead of becoming the expert on PLE, I, myself got confused over and over again in the process of figuring it while munching on the articles given and some web-searched information. Although I’d done my PPT slides and sort of gotten myself ready, but when it comes to think about the question, “What is PLE?” posted by Mdm. Ng in the beginning of the class, everything regarding PLE appeared to be still vague. Seems like Mdm. Ng knows that I wasn’t ready, that’s why all my classmates got to answer the questions for me to do some last-minute revision before presenting on PLE. =)
PLE is a potential approach to meet future educational needs & may provide new alternatives that foster learning capacity among individual learners (Bentley and Miller, 2004). Whereas Good & Brophy (1990) stated that PLE consider the individual pupil's interest, needs and abilities and finding out the best learning style for each pupil. From these, PLE seems to be the perfect way to produce productive and skilful workers to meet the demand in the future working world. Through PLE, students learn based on their own pace, ability and interest thus producing human assets who are aware of their strengths and abilities. Therefore, it is crucial that teachers become aware of the needs and interest of their students in order to identify and incorporate suitable teaching and learning methods to achieve the intended learning outcome.
Most of the time, being a teacher, I’ll tend to take up the role of a dictator while the students are passive learner where they just merely follow the teacher’s instructions. This prohibits them from taking responsibilities in their learning and also actively involve in the teaching and learning process as they feel that education is something done on them and the things that they are learning has nothing to do with them. By this, students will not be interested and will not want to engaged in the teaching and learning process.
As teacher, we need to identify and become aware of the activities that will lead to PLE. Having a clear knowledge and understanding regarding PLE will allow the teacher to fully incorporate the activities in the teaching and learning to help the students to achieve the intended learning outcome. So, the mission now is I need to identify the activities that will encourage PLE to be carried out in my lessons and I believe, with the help of technologies, each student will be able to utilize the instructional/ Internet tools in a productive manner which is beneficial to themselves and their peers and further leading them to become a life-long learner.
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