PLEs - Graham Atwell

Graham Atwell offers his 7.5 minute take on personal learning environments (PLEs). He makes a great point about how policy discourse is at odds with social trends.
On a related note - lately, something about PLEs isn’t sitting well with me. I can’t quite place what it is (I’m working through my issues in a PLE article…I’ll post sometime in the near future). Leigh Blackall has provided one end point of the continuum of my concern with PLEs with his statement that we don’t need LMS’ or PLEs because we have the internet…and the other end of the continuum is held by the reality that all of the PLE discussion is currently happening with a very small percentage of the population (the edu-tech-geeks). 90% of people don’t care much about blogs (ok, that’s a random figure, but it’s high)…and are even less concerned about mashing-up a series of services to share their learning, pictures, podcasts, etc.