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Personal Learning Environment Model

I don't think I've covered this (sorry if I have) and I don't want to risk it passing by without comment. In this item, Jeremy Hiebert revises his Personal Learning Environment (PLE) model. I'm not quite sure I'm there with it. I like the idea of trying to get at the function, rather than the type, of applications involved. But a lot seems missing. Where is personal identity? Where is community? I want to see 'who am I' and 'who do I know' as prominant in such a diagram. Because, I argue, it is this structure that defines the structure of the information network, not the information itself (that's why libraries always puzzle me - all that information, organized by subject, while I'd really rather have it organized by what might interest me right now, regardless of subject).Force:yes