The Creative and the Curious: When learners roam free!!

Helen Keegan National Teaching Fellow, Higher Education Academy Senior Lecturer, University of Salford, MediaCity UK

Keynote Presentation for the EDEN Research Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium, October 2012!

New Spaces, New Pedagogies

Open, Social, Mobile, Networked, Responsive, Flexible

ECOSYSTEM:  ISSUES  AND  CHALLENGES  

Blurring boundaries: -  Learners -  Educators -  Experts -  Institutions -  Disciplines

Transdisciplinarity in Networked Spaces (Burnett 2011) ‘Epistemological reboot’ (Balsamo 2011)

Identities

PHOTO  SLIDESHOW  

Produsage

PHOTO  SLIDESHOW  Disciplines

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Flexibility, openness and designing for change Courses as hashtags

#cck08 #change11

#ds106

Networked Creativity: International

Collaborations

#ELVSS12 - Entertainment Lab for the Very Small Screen

#ELVSS12 - Example student planning Google doc/dialogue

#ELVSS12 Example !

tutor docs

#ELVSS12!Student hangouts

#ELVSS12 Tutor-student hangouts

Networks and the Power of the Hashtag

Modelling network and media literacies

@nancybaym feat. @solobasssteve at #ir12, 12 Oct 2011

Using Instagram and Twitter to connect ‘live’ with #psvtam and #mscsm students from AoIR Internet Research conference Demonstrating network connections; modeling behaviours

The Eureka Moment

Leading to…

Negotiated Curriculum

Driven by learner interests (19 Oct 2011)

Serendipity, Opportunity

20 Oct 2011

@cogdog skyping into class from U.S.

Telling us about his Storybox project - 21 Oct 2011

Storybox    h9p://cogdogblog.com/storybox/  

 

#mscsm watching on the small screen

Fascinated - 21 Oct 2011

Thanks @cogdog!

Reactions from students on Twitter - 21 Oct 2011

Opening up the processes of

knowledge creation

Crowdsourcing lecture notes - #iCollab11

http://storify.com/heloukee/mscsm-week-6-convergence

Opening up the classroom

UG/PG: ex/current students: on/off campus

Undergraduate  student  a9ending    Postgraduate  class  à        Ex-­‐student  a9ending    Postgraduate  class  à        Mobile  learning:  learners    are  mobile        

à  

Mobile Creativity

“Travelling on trains gives me time to shape ideas” @ugfl – 2nd Year student

Digital literacies, digital citizenship

Attention Critical thinking/filtering Participation Collaboration Network smarts (Rheingold, 2012)

Digital Identity, ownership, autonomy

Connections are key, BUT

HOW can we to move from active to passive? HOW to move beyond target-driven behaviours? HOW to ‘reboot’ our learners?

A tale of curiosity, mystery and

intrigue

Alternate Reality Games

PARALLEL WORLD Social learning Problem solving Active learning Collaboration Teamwork Web literacy ‘Crap detection’

Curiosity, Mystery, Intrigue – and Assessment

Photo  by  Violscaper  -­‐  h9p://www.flickr.com/photos/25297401@N08/4647262392/    Quote  –  h9p://dwellingintheword.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/12-­‐gandhi.jpg  

 

VERSUS: “I’m paying X amount per year” “I just want a first” “What do I need to do to get a first?”

Transformative learning (Mezirow 1978)

Hugh Garry and the 4 themes

Elements  of  the  crea^ve  process:    CURIOSITY  COLLECTING  IDEAS  CONNECTING  GETTING  YOUR  WORK  OUT  THERE    

#PSVTAM

BSc Professional Sound and Video Technology Advanced Multimedia (n=30)

•  Digital identity •  Remix culture

•  Copyright, licensing, ethics •  Participatory media production

•  Mobile phone filmmaking •  Transmedia storytelling •  Critical media literacies

Go Beyond! Dig Deep!

Question Everything!

The Game Week   TOPIC  

Week  1   Digital  Iden^ty/Online  Presence  

Week  2   Remix  Culture/Par^cipatory  Culture  

Week  3   Copyright,  licensing,  ethics  

Week  4   Networks  and  Openness  

Week  5   Huey  –  Guest  Lecture  

Week  6   Transmedia/digital  storytelling  

Week  7   Pocket  Cinema  

Week  8   Mobile  Film  Project  

Week  9   Mobile  Film  Project  

Week  10   Mobile  Film  Project  

Week  11   THE  REVEAL  (BBC  Big  Screen)  

Week  12   BBC  Big  Screen  (2nd  showing)  

How  to  get  from                    HERE  

                                             To  HERE?  

91211

VIDEO: Down the Rabbit-hole

Quotes from Tweets:

“I’m so scared”

“This is creepy”

“I’m getting worried about this”

“Serious data protection implications”

“I have a red hot poker ready…”

Hi  all,    Thanks  to  you  lot  and  your  detec^ve  work  (and  geing  me  his  email  address  ;)  I’ve  just  made  contact  with  the  mysterious  Rufi  Franzen.    Firstly,  you’ll  be  relieved  to  know  that  you  have  nothing  to  worry  about  in  terms  of  data  security  –  there  have  been  no  breaches  of  security.  I  can’t  say  any  more  at  the  moment  as  I’ve  been  sworn  to  secrecy,  so  I  need  you  to  trust  me  on  this.    What  I  do  know  is  that  this  is  going  somewhere  good  –  amazing  in  fact.  I  don’t  know  much  more  at  this  stage,  and  I’m  not  sure  I’m  going  to  be  told.  Anyway,  let’s  chat  about  it  tomorrow  –  remember  the  feedback  session  3-­‐5  in  3.34!    See  you  tomorrow.  This  is  crazy  –  but  ace.  Helen    

Email (fire fighting)

Learners driving the curriculum

Solving puzzles, cracking codes

WHERE ✔

WHEN ✔

WHY ✖

On the eve of the reveal…

•  Live Q+A

“Best  TV  programme  I’ve  watched  in  ages!”  (James)  

Charles Leadbeater

9.12.11

VIDEO: The Big Screen

The Reveal: Reactions

So was it worth the risk?

“This  was  a  fantas^c  learning  experience;  The  intrigue,  the  teamwork,  the  puzzle  solving;  Everyone  who  has  taken  part  in  the  process  has  brought  their  own  theories  and  ideas,  everyone  has  helped  solve  a  li9le  bit  of  the  puzzle.”  

“this  is  something  I’ll  never  forget”  

“I  wanna  do  it  again!”  

 “Just  so  pleased  to  have  been  involved  in  this  ARG,  Rufi  will  live  forever!”  

 “Today  I  realized  just  how  amazing  the  small  things  in  life  can  be.  Yes,  this  is  a  massive  cliché  but,  yes,  it  

is  true!”  “It  was  incredible,  we  all  watched  in  the  rain  as  passers  by  watched  the  work  we  had  created,  

broadcast  on  a  huge  screen  in  one  of  the  most  famous  

ci^es  in  the  world.  

Transformations

“You  now  have  me  pouring  over  all  the  blogs.  The  subtlety  and  deliciousness  of  this  game  and  how  you  all  dealt  with  each  issue  on  a  day  to  day  basis  is  staggering…  it  is  good  to  know  that  I  played  a  part  in  possibly  the  greatest  thing  I  have  ever  been  exposed  to…”  

“I  will    always  remember  Rufi,  and  the  way  it  has  forced  me  to  think  about  certain  things.    I’d  love  this  way  of  teaching  to  become  a  permanent  fixture  in  our  educa^on  system  (I’ve  just  wri9en  1200  words  on  a  Friday  night  for  God’s  sake,  and  

it’s  not  even  for  an  assignment!)”  

"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."  !

Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)

The Creative and the Curious: When learners roam free

Helen Keegan National Teaching Fellow, Higher Education Academy Senior Lecturer, University of Salford, MediaCity UK Twitter: @heloukee Blog: heloukee.wordpress.com