Networked and Symphonic Selves

Two Faces of Integrative Learning Darren Cambridge Computers & Writing Detroit, MI

Contexts
Emergent findings of campuses involved in the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research
Interest in Computers & Writing community in both electronic portfolios and social software: How do they connect, or not?
Informal learning discussion on the blogs
Integrative learning as a key theme in discourse of higher education reform

Two Faces
What kinds of selves do our digital portfolios models invite from students? (Yancey 2004)
Two dimensions of integrative learning parallel two types of selves

Networked and Symphonic Selves
Network Self
Creating intentional connections
Symphonic Self
Achieving integrity of the whole

Distinctions
Symphonic most consonant to the tradition of portfolio pedagogy in the United States
Network most consonant to recent integrative learning discourse
Can’t be (and isn’t) either/or
Differ in values, activities, genre characteristics, technologies, and impacts

Values
Play, emergence, entrepreneurialism, flexibility, agility
Analysis
Liberalism
Student engagement
Integrity, commitment, intellectual engagement, balance
Creativity
Humanism
Personal engagement

Activities
Folio thinking
Ease, speed, low cost integration
Embedded in day-to-day
Connection
Aggregation, association
Collection
Reflection-in-action, constructive reflection
Revision
Continual learning
Matrix thinking
Time, effort, high cost integration (author, context, and audience)
Stepping out of daily work
Articulation, reframing
Synthesis, symphony
Selections, projection
Reflection-in-presentation
Iteration
Moments of mastery, accomplishment, celebration

Genre Characteristics
Space
Openings
Relationships as end, heuristic, invention
Relationships between things
Atomized, aggregated
Collection, list, link, datum, snapshot
Text, composition
Boundaries
Relationships as organization
Relationships between relationships
Holistic, integral, systemic
Theory, story, interpretation, map

Technologies
Web 2.0 tools, social software, Identity 2.0 providers, PLEs and other aggregators, MyLifeBits. ELGG
Atom, RSS, FOAF, Flikr API, Open ID, etc.
ePortfolio systems
Concept mapping systems
IMS ePortfolio, Topic Maps, RDF

Impacts
Low yield – incremental and by accretion
Greater connectedness and intentionality
Learning in the network
High yield – occasional and intensive
Synthesis, coherence, feeling of integrity
Learning in the individual

Living Both
Bi-stable equilibrium
Learning in layers

Networked and Symphonic Selves

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