Ambient Learning City
ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett
Bilbao Bordeaux Lewisham Lisboa Pula
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
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
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
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
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
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