From physical to digital learning spaces:
Are we escaping the classroom?
@sahoward_uow @jotondeur
Sarah Howard Jo Tondeur
University of Wollongong & Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sarah Jo
5540 kms apart
How can we bring them together to create an active learning environment, a third teacher?
What is the problem here?
What do we know about the physical learning environment?
What do we know about the digital learning environment?
Let's find out!
Let's think about space... before we go further.
HINT: Turn your phone landscape to use.
https://bit.ly/3urMlXz
How was that...?
What do we mean by "physical learning environment"?
Interaction between architecture and education
What do we mean by school?
The hardware of a school (Lawn, 1999)
The software of a school
Resources
The social agency can be exercised relative to things and social agency can be exercised by things
A. Gell, ‘Art and Agency. An anthropological theory’ in: Oxford: Oxford University Press
Strategies
Naturalness - Stimulation - Individualisation
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The most well-known physical space where formal learning takes place is still a mystery
What is the problem here?
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What do we mean by 'digital'?
What do we mean by
a 'digital space'?
Digital hardware & infrastructure
Digital software & tools
Digital resources
Digital strategies
Platform pedagogies
Considerations of platform pedagogies include:
- The pedagogicization of platforms
- Digital literacies, datafication and data literacy.
- The platformization of pedagogy
What is the problem here?
How do we bring together hardware, software and resources to create a digital learning environment?
What is the goal and what are the strategies?
Before the GOT...
Potential space
From classroom biographies: from 1960 -2010
Digital technologies... in the physical space!
To remote teaching
The GOT
What about pedagogy and learning spaces?
What is the problem here?
Where's the third teachers?
To blended learning
After the GOT?
What kind of research do we need?
Observing learning spaces...
The learning environment...
Bringing spaces together
We don't need to escape the classroom!
@sahoward_uow @jotondeur
References
Lawn, M. & Grosvenor, I. (eds.) (2005). Materialities of schooling: design, technology, objects, routines. Oxford: Symposium Books
Perrotta, C., Gulson, K. N., Williamson, B., & Witzenberger, K. (2021). Automation, APIs and the distributed labour of platform pedagogies in Google Classroom. Critical Studies in Education, 62(1), 97–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2020.1855597
Sefton-Green, J., & Pangrazio, L. (2021). Platform Pedagogies –Toward a Research Agenda. In Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children. https://doi.org/10.1162/ba67f642.646d0673
Extra
Barrett et al. study
And, evolving socio-technological interactions...
In complex digital landscapes...
(e.g. Navarro-Bringas et al., 2020)
Some assumptions about learning spaces
- Digital technologies will improving learning -
- New learning spaces will improving learning -
Inspiration Guides -- Jo research
‘potential spaces’ in times of disturbance
