Knowledge Building in - New Media Environments

Knowledge Building in New Media Environments Teemu Leinonen Learning Environments research group Media Lab http://mlab.uiah.fi University of Art and Design Helsinki

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Teemu Leinonen

Educational science, University of Tampere

New Media, Media Lab, University or Art and Design Helsinki

Learning Environments research group 1998-

Theory based, design oriented

Progressive inquiry

Tools for creative practice

Web and mobile

1969 Nokia, Tampere, Finland

1970’s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;

1980’s-90’s Afghanistan, Kenya, Namibia;

Studies in USA and Sweden

Colombia, South Africa

Family: Andrea and Luna

Art, design, sociology, football, music

" Any true understanding is dialogic in nature. " " All higher [mental] functions originate as actual relations between human individuals. "

" Any true understanding is dialogic in nature. " - Mikhail Bakhtin " All higher [mental] functions originate as actual relations between human individuals. " - Lev Vygotsky

Microlearning

micro = extremely small in scale or scope or capability learning = ?

1. Learning and knowledge building 2. Learning environments 3. Future (of learning)

What is learning?

Three Metaphors of learning Knowledge acquisition Participation Knowledge creation

Knowledge acquisition

Learning is an individual cognitive process

Participation

Learning is a socio-cultural process

Knowledge creation

Learning is a socio-cultural process with an intention to produce artefacts

Memorizing Acting Cultivating

What is knowledge building?

Setting up Research Questions Creating the Context Constructing Working Theories Critical Evaluation Searching Deepening Knowledge Generating Subordinate Questions Developing New Working Theories Distributed Expertise (Hakkarainen 1999)

Fle3 - Future Learning Environment - http://fle3.uiah.fi

1. Learning and knowledge building 2. Learning environments 3. Future (of learning)

What is a learning environment?

Learning environment is a psychological, social, cultural, physical and technological state that favours learning.

Components of Learning Environments:

Peoples’ psychological state,

People’s social state,

People’s cultural state,

Designed and built physical and technological state.

Pictures from Learning Environments

1. Me and my computer

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2. We and someone’s virtual world

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Second Life - about 2 million people from around the world. 2

3. We and our world

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What kind of physical and technological state you are designing for you and your community?

What kind of psychological, social and cultural state you are designing for you and your community?

Instruments / Tools Object Subject Rules Community Division of labor Outcome (Yrjö Engeström 1987, 1999) Human Activity Systems

1. Learning and knowledge building 2. Learning environments 3. Future of learning

History of ICT in education

“ The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing and caring.”

“ A good education system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and finally furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.”

“ A good education system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and finally furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.” Ivan Illich (1971); Deschooling Society

“ Image a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” “We make the Internet no suck.”

“ Image a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” “We make the Internet no suck.” 2005 Jimmy Wales

" The best way to predict the future is to invent it. "

" The best way to predict the future is to invent it. " Alan Kay 1971

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