The ambiguity of blended learning in education: Is something new happening?

@sahoward_uow                    @jotondeur

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!

What do we mean by school?

What do we mean by "physical learning environment"?   

The software of a school

The hardware of a school (Lawn, 1999)

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

The most well-known physical space where formal learning takes place is still a mystery

What is the problem here?

What do we mean by

 a 'digital space'?

Digital software & tools

Digital hardware & infrastructure

Digital resources

Google classroom....

Digital software & tools

Digital hardware & infrastructure

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 is the problem here?

Where's the third teachers?

Blended learning?

After the GOT?

What kind of research do we need?

Observing learning spaces...

The learning environment...

Bringing spaces together

The ambiguity of blended learning in education: Is something new happening?

@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