Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

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Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Background

• Emergent Learning Model

• New Partnerships New learning eco-systems

• Learning Contexts ‘beyond the classroom’

• Metaphors & Object-centred sociality

• Building new informal learning eco-systems

• Conclusions; 1 - 6

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Open Context Model of Learning

• Background

• Web2.0 Architectures of Participation

• Tech Tools; participatory & collaborative

• Can learning be participatory & collaborative?

• Open Context model of learning

• If we can learn in multiple contexts

• How do we design for learning contexts?

P A H

Teacher

School

Teacher/Learner

Learner

Research

Cognition Epistemic Cognition

Meta-Cognition

Adult

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Emergent Learning Model

• Emergent Learning Model

• Post Bologna process EU wanted to integrate;

• formal, non-formal & informal learning

• But! By sector; school college community

• We wanted to integrate by learning process;

• Social, resources, accreditation

• So we created a development framework (a

tool to support problem-solving in undefined contexts)

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Ambient Learning City

• New Partnerships; New learning eco-systems

• An Ambient Learning City needs partners

• The partners create a resource eco-system

• Can be learning, cultural, touristic, history…

• We worked with Manchester City Council

• Industrial, textiles, shipping, football, MUSIC!

• Northern Quarter, digital corridor, Universities

• Peoples Voice Media; LSEN, MADlab, Media City

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Social Cities of Tomorrow

• MOSI-ALONG Partnership;

• JISC Community Content Project

• A cultural partner knowing economic history

• Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI)

• LSEN, Community Centres City, Libraries,

• developing Digital Learning Champions

• People’s Voice #Digital Media Literacy (NGO)

• Stories of Economic History & Futures…

Ambient Learning City

MOSI-ALONG

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 The Participatory Museum

• Learning Contexts; Beyond the Classroom;

• Not! A community collection curated by experts like RunCoCo

• More than content – A participatory museum

• Creating narratives with object-centred sociality using people’s own objects

• Using new metaphors to stimulate learning

• Digital Cabinets of Curiosity

Ambient Learning City

Digital / Cabinets of Curiosities

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Cabinets of Curiosity

• Developing New Contexts for learning;

• With object-centred sociality (Nina Simon)

• (#digital) fascinating Cabinets of Curiosity;

“collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were…

yet to be defined”

(Wikipedia, 2015)

Post-scarcity Ecology of Resources rethinking contextsMaking Curricula, Organisation, Administration Adaptive

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Everything is a Metaphor

• Building New Informal Learning Systems;

• Inviting Mancunians to create digital ‘Cabinets’

• Working with digital learning support staff

• Rethinking social media use (AtC)

• Created informal learning eco-system for

• a) people interested in Manchester econ history

• b) using social media to support their own ways of learning, curating and discussing

Ambient Learning City

What we’ve learnt so far…

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Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Information Ecologies

• Conclusion 1.

• build new partnerships to source funding and create a framework in which proposed new informal learning might develop and flourish

• design appropriate information ecologies which reflect partners interests and provide appropriate resources for the new informal learning eco-systems you hope to develop

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Architecture of Participation

• Conclusion 2.

• The more complex the new informal learning eco-system you hope to develop then the more problems you will have to solve

• The most critical & most significant problems will emerge during the project and cannot be anticipated nor solved before you begin

• that’s Emergence! – Development Frameworks for design will allow new problems to be solved

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Before & After MOOCs

• Conclusion 3.

• You have to address the critical problem of how to create a transformative system for informal learning

• existing institutions are only interested in e-enabling existing, customary, formal practice

• New metaphors for stakeholder engagementcan be a way of addressing this – metaphors create new spaces for new eco-systems

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 MOSI-ALONG Social Media Festival

• Conclusion 4.

• You need to develop new ways of measuring the successful outcomes of new models of informal learning in order to satisfy both partner organisations and participants

• we developed a social media festival to showcase work produced during the project

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Aggregate then Curate

• Conclusion 5.

• We also developed a social media learning model, Aggregate then Curate, to solve the problem of linking the informal use of social media to formal learning outcomes

• Aggregate then Curate captures one dimension of emergence, that is the non-linear nature of the project, and still needs further testing…

Ambient Learning City

Integrating the Physical & the Digital with Social Media

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Aggregate then Curate paper

• Conclusion 6.

• Building Ambient Learning City is an emergent process with unanticipated problems to solve which all partners must deal with

• The best outcome an Ambient Learning City project can produce is A complex learning eco-system & a new learning information ecology

• (Full paper for this presentation)

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Ambient Learning City Full Paper

• Resources Used;

• Open Context Model of Learning

• Emergent Learning Model

• Ambient Learning City

• Social Cities of Tomorrow

• The Participatory Museum

• Cabinets of Curiosity

• Everything is a Metaphor

• Information Ecologies

• Architecture of Participation

• Before & After MOOCs

• MOSI-ALONG Social Media Festival

• Aggregate then Curate

• Aggregate then Curate paper

Ambient Learning City

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

Bilbao Bordeaux Lewisham Lisboa Pula