1British Library, 16 Dec. 2009

Sharing practice in Technology Mediated Learning:

Participatory Pattern Workshops

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the critical resource is not the capacity to produce, but the knowledge to do it right.

Problem: The Design Divide

the gap between those who have the expertise to develop high-quality tools and resources and those who don’t (Mor & Winters, 2008)

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Solution...(in architecture)

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What is a pattern?

• At is simplest, it is a– Generalised solution to a problem– Follows a specific structure

C o n t e x t

Problem Solution

When, Where, Who

What are we trying to achieve / solve?

Cookbook: ingredients, procedure, expected

outcomes

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A burda pattern..

Season: Fall For: Women Garment Type: Dress Style: Classic, Evening Wear, RomanticMaterial: Taffeta

“if I copy a dress, I can only create the same dress. If I have a pattern, I can create many dresses” (Yim Ping Lenden)

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As for software

In learning / e-learning..

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Participatory Methodology for Practical Design Patterns

• Problem– Acceleration → need for effective protocols for sharing

of design knowledge

• Context– interdisciplinary communities of practitioners

engaged in collaborative reflection on a common theme of their practice.

– blended setting: co-located meetings + on-line collaborative authoring system.

Son, this was my dad's mobile. I want you to have it.

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Collaborative reflection workshopFacilitate on-going design-level conversation between designers and practitioners involved in diverse aspects of the problem domain.

Open, trusting and convivial.

And at the same time

Critical, focused and output-directed.

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Collaborative reflection workshop

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Case Stories Workshop

Engender collaborative reflection among practitioners by a structured process of sharing stories of successful practice.

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Pattern Mining Workshop

Shift from anecdotes to transferable design knowledge by identifying commonalities across case stories, and capturing them in a semi-structured form.

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Future Scenarios Workshop

Validate design patterns by applying them to novel real problems in real contexts.

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You are here

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Case Stories Workshop

Engender collaborative reflection among practitioners by a structured process of sharing stories of successful practice.

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The plan

• Tell us a story

• This reminds me of..

• Table top concept mapping

• Identify common features

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Tell us about...

• A specific incident

• That happened to you

• Where you confronted a challenge / problem

• And resolved it successfully

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Be a STARR

• Situation– Describe the context in detail.

• Task– What was the problem you were

trying to solve?• Action

– What did you do to solve it?• Results

– What happened? Did you succeed? Did you adjust?

• & Reflections– What did you learn?

http://www.slideshare.net/yish/star-case-study-template

http://patternlanguagenetwork.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Cases/

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Tell it like it was

You don’t know

• Would have happened..

• Could have happened..

• Should have happened..

• Will Happen…

You DO know, and only YOU know

What happened

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Three hats

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This reminds me of..

• A 2nd group member proposes a related story.

• How is this similar in terms of:

– The context

– The problem

– The actions

– The results

• And how is it different?

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Table top concept mapping

Wanted: a common language for describing the key features of the case stories.

teacher

book

table

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Fusion!

• Context

• Problem

• Solution

• Context

• Problem

• Solution

My Story

Your Story

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Group presentation

• Summary of 2 case stories (1 minute each)

• Concept map

• Common features

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Thank youEnhancing learning and teaching by sharing practice in Technology Mediated Learning @ King's College London

http://designpatternsproject.pbworks.com/

This presentation:http://www.slideshare.net/yish/ctfws1

Yishay Mor

people.lkl.ac.uk/yishay

yishaym@gmail.com

twitter: @yishaym

Steven Warburton

steven.warburton@kcl.ac.uk

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