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Learning in a Network ofDistributedEnvironments and Resources
Nelson A. F. GonalvesEscola Superior de Educao e CI&DETS
Instituto Politcnico de Viseu (Portugal)E-Mail: [email protected]
Paulo DiasInstituto de Educao
Universidade do Minho (Portugal)E-Mail: [email protected]
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Introduction
The research project, developed within a doctoralprogram in Educational Technology at theUniversity of Minho (Portugal), aims to build anunderstanding ofhow the informal experience of
knowledge contributes to the construction offormal knowledge.
Theoretical framework: Situated Cognition (Brown,Collins & Duguid, 1989), Communities of Practice (Lave &Wenger, 1991), Connectivism (Siemens, 2005), PersonalLearning Environment (Attwell, 2007), Actor-NetworkTheory (Law, 1992) and Activity Theory (Engestrm, 1987).
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What?
Study the culture of "blenderheads".
Produce a detailed description of the architecture ofparticipation and learning of the "blenderheads".
What leadership exists? What are the sustainabilityfactors of this open learning ecosystem?
How to educate for the challenges presented by thefuture? Can we, in this landscape strongly marked
by informal learning processes, find possibleanswers to issues such as academic inflation,lifelong learning, innovation, "long tail", etc.?
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How?
The study, an Ethnography (Gregory,2005), aims to produce a "thickdescription" (Geertz, 1973) of theBlender learning ecosystem,
articulating its socio-technicallandscape, the actors and networks,based on the trajectories ofparticipation and learning of
blenderheads and the researchersown experience.
That's me!
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1. Semiotic Domain: any set of practices that recruits one or moremodalities (e.g. oral or written language, images, equations, symbols, sounds,gestures, graphs, artifacts, etc.) to communicate distinctive types of meanings.(Gee, 2003, p. 18).
2. Affinity Group: group of people associated with a Semiotic Domain (Gee,2003).
3. Network of Practice: networks that link people to others whom they maynever get to know but who work on similar practices (Brown & Duguid, 2000,
p. 141).
4. Affinity Spaces: In affinity spaces people 'bond' first and foremost to anendeavor or interest and secondarily, if at all, to each other. (Gee, 2003, p. 98).
5. Community of Practice: a unique combination of three fundamentalelements: a domain of knowledge, which defines a set of issues; a communityof people who care about this domain; and a shared practice that they aredeveloping to be effective in their domain." (Wenger, McDermott & Snyder,2002, p. 27).
6. Personal Learning Environment: A PLE is comprised of all the
different tools we use in our everyday life for learning (Attwell, 2007, p. 4).
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Learning becomes both a personal and unique trajectorythrough a complex space of opportunities (...) and asocial journey as one shares aspects of that trajectory
with others (...) for a shorter or longer time before movingon. (Gee, 2007, p. 103).
Learning is a social activity thatemerges from the path traveledby learners or novices withinthe community towards fullparticipation and expertise,
forming an integral andinseparable aspect of socialpractice.
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BlenderArtists
Blender.org Blend.Polis The BlenderClan
Blender3D.cz
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Forums: discussion activities
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26, Filipino
31, USA
24, French
Need help with thisspecific problem
Here's the solution
I think there's anothersolution, moreaccurate
This is my scientificrationale
That one is an oldsolution
31 USA
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31, USAHere's my legitimacy
And...
Meet Physics &Newton!
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28, Australia
What is the bestway to learn?
Want to learn?
Do it like this...
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23, Australian
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29, Germany
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26, Australia
22 USA
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+ Fix videos
+ videos byrequest
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T t 1 bl / i t k ill i ?
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Tutee1: problem/mistake or illusion?
Tutor: mistake, I forgot to...
Tutee2: Yes you did. Adds a plus to thetutorial: what happens if you forget to...
Tutee1: the video shows method A ofrigging but I've done it in the past withmethod B. Which one is better?
Tutee2: A is better for this. B is better ifyou want to do that.
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USA
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Affiliation network
Co-Affiliation as Opportunity or Co-Affiliation as Indicator
(Borgatti & Halgin, in press).
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PLE
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Next steps
Expand Social Network Analysis. Select subjects for interviewing.
Analysis of collected artifacts.
Continue participant observation and field diary. Identify some boundaries: socio-technical networks
and CoP.
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Final thoughts
Blender universe is expanding fast and (immigrantsand natives) Education is a central concern for thenatives.
Blurring, blending, complementarity: online and offline
identities, experts in X are novices in Y, social-leisure and learning activities, etc.
Free/Libre Software (free as in free speech, not asin free beer) and Free Culture (CC) are two social
concerns shared by the vast majority. Free andOpen tools, content and processes are valued.
Natural and daily use of a myriad of Old & Newtechnologies to support participation and learning
trajectories. Books + Twitter + DVD + YouTube + ...
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E-mail / homepage
nafergo[AT]gmail.com
http://nafergo.intervir.net
Thank you!
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