In Class:
- Act I
- Act II
- Wenger’s video explanation of the term “situated learning”
- Identity Discussion
- “Every practice is in some sense a form of knowledge, and knowing is participating in that practice” (p. 141).
- “Imagine a child in school, whose identity is being shaped, perhaps at this point, more by external forces than internal.”
- “Multimembership and the work of reconciliation are at the core of being a person, of belonging.” [and learning?]
- “It is easy to see part of one’s identity coming from the experience from community memberships, their learning trajectory, and their relationships with other grad students out in the world; but this takes the act of creating an identity out of the individual’s hands. “
- “Through these local actions and interactions, learning reproduces and transforms the social structure in which it takes place. [Learning] is the vehicle for the evolution of practices and the inclusion of newcomers while also the vehicle for the development and transformation of identities.” (p 13).
- “The more we create multi-memberships in the constellation of communities of practice, we morph our identities; both in the way we identify and the way others identify us.”
- “Indeed, engagement transforms communities, practices, persons, and artifacts through each other. In this regard, engagement is an interesting dimension of power: it affords the power to negotiate our enterprises and thus to shape the context in which we can construct and experience an identity of competence (p. 175).”
- Act III
- Introduce Synthesis Project:
- Create an experience to convey your team’s shared understanding of learning. Include the ideas of community, identity, design, technology, and knowing discussed throughout the class thus far. Your experience can include any kind of media/materials. digital, physical, static, interactive.
- We will give you that following temporal resources for your experience:
- 30 minutes in class on Feb 17th. (Two weeks from today)
- If there is something you want class to look at before the synthesis class, You will be able to post items for the blog before 5:00pm on Sunday, Feb 15th.
- You must post an artifact of your synthesis to the course blog.
- Work in group on Synthesis Project
- Introduce Synthesis Project:
Assignments/Readings due before next class:
- Readings (related to Design):
- Ch. 9 to Coda 2 (pgs. 188-221) in “Communities of Practice” by Wenger
- “The First Tradition” (pgs. 11-23) in “The Design Way”
- “Medium is the Massage” by Marshall McCluhan & Quentin Fiore (available on Yammer)
- Team blog post / comments with a focus on Design by 2/8 @ 5pm
- Comment on other groups’ Blog Posts by 2/10 @ 12pm
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