1. LCN600 – Online tutorial (Week 2) What is connected learning?
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2. Week 2 overview Welcome, Introductions
LCN600 – Online tutorial (Week 2) What is connected learning?
Welcome, Introductions
Overview of connected learning principles
Benefits and risks of connected learning principles
Q & A
Reminder – end Week 2:
Connected learning first thoughts (Activity 3)
START THE RECORDING
Welcome everyone – especially if this is your first tutorial for this unit.
We’re a ware that quite a few people enrolled in the last few days.
Is this your very first time using Collaborate?
Green tick for YES ---- Red tick for NO
Everyone – how are you feeling about the unit so far? Ok, confused?
Please type a word or short phrase in the chat box – add an emoticon – and then press enter
Do a quick summary of responses
note similar feelings
Encourage less positive ones
On the screen you can see an outline of what we’ll cover tonight
As always, I’ll allow time for Q&A at the end
And please note the reminders – to do by end of this week if at all poss

3. CL – very first thoughts
START THE RECORDING
Welcome everyone – especially if this is your first tutorial for this unit.
We’re a ware that quite a few people enrolled in the last few days.
Is this your very first time using Collaborate?
Green tick for YES ---- Red tick for NO
Everyone – how are you feeling about the unit so far? Ok, confused?
Please type a word or short phrase in the chat box – add an emoticon – and then press enter
Do a quick summary of responses
note similar feelings
Encourage less positive ones
On the screen you can see an outline of what we’ll cover tonight
As always, I’ll allow time for Q&A at the end
And please note the reminders – to do by end of this week if at all poss
CL – very first thoughts

5. What is connected learning?
Emerging pedagogical thinking and practice
Stimulated/underpinned by the Connected Learning report by Ito et al. (2013) Note: this is core reading for the unit (see the Essential readings list)
CL principles (Ito et a., 2013)
It’s interest-driven – peer culture, meaningful to the learners
Learner-led – shared purpose
Production-centred
Academic-focused – in the broadest sense
Equitable - Social justice, student voice
Openly networked
Participatory
Quote:
CL is “learning that is socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity. Connected learning is realized when a young person [everyone really!] is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement. …
(Ito et al., 2013, p.7)
It is not simply a “technique” for improving individual educational outcomes, but rather it seeks to build communities and collective capacities for learning and opportunity”
Note: although the report and most readings relate to young people – in this unit we’re exploring how the principles of connected learning apply across different education contest – not just young people or in schools

6. What is connected learning?
Contemporary pedagogical framework
CL is “learning that is socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity. Connected learning is realized when a young person [everyone really!] is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement. …
(Ito et al., 2013, p.7)
It is not simply a “technique” for improving individual educational outcomes, but rather it seeks to build communities and collective capacities for learning and opportunity”
Note: although the report and most readings relate to young people – in this unit we’re exploring how the principles of connected learning apply across different learning contexts – not just young people or in schools

7. Connected learning principles
CL principles
3 spheres of learning – CL context
Interests
Peer culture
Academic – purposeful learning
Core properties
Production centred
Shared interest
Openly networked
Design principles
Everything is interconnected
Learning happens by doing – active, experiential learning
Everyone can participate – inclusive, intergenerational
Challenge is constant
(Ito et al., 2013)

8. CL – three spheres of learning
Expanded …
Interests – personal affinity, passion, engagement
Academic subjects, professional development, hobbies, sport, arts,
political activism, community engagement
Peer culture – social networks (virtual & real life), school, community
Shared culture, knowledge, expertise, inter-generational
Academic – future directed goals, purposeful learning, ‘work’
Formal outcomes, skills, life-readiness, ability to participate in society

9. Why connected learning?
Many [young] people experience their learning in the three spheres of interests, peer culture and academic subjects as disconnected, and do not have sufficient exposure or support to explore their interests. Even among those who do, their interests generally lack connection to cross-generational learning, academic subjects, career pathways, and civic and political participation. Whether focused on sports, games, popular media, creative production or the arts, these interest-driven activities are often pursued in relatively self-contained institutions, peer-groups, or communities of practice that do not cut across the divides of home, school, afterschool, and peer culture.
Connected learning, as its name implies, works to connect these spheres more purposefully.
By giving equal weight to all of these different sites of learning, we can create more entry points and diversify the pathways towards learning and opportunity.
Ito et al., 2013, p. 65

10. Slide prepared by Dr Mandy Lupton
Connected learning design
Slide prepared by Dr Mandy Lupton

11. Rationale for connected learning
Created by and used with Permission of:
Dr Mandy Lupton

12. CL-related theories and concepts
Created by and used with Permission of: Dr Mandy Lupton

13. CL = active participation
Engagement with authentic information environments
Participatory professional and interest-based communities
Engagement in authentic information & knowledge building practices
Liking, rating, sharing, following, curating, commenting, creating

14. Risks & responsibilities of connected learning
Digital footprint
Digital reputation
Modelling for learners (and colleagues) how to use unfamiliar tools or media in new ways
Going beyond the known – working responsibly & safely with open learning environments
Experiment - error - experiment - discover

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QUESTIONS?
Hilary
What is the title or focus of your project?
Write it clearly on a post-it note – add your name
Eg Hilary - Enabling classroom teachers to support students’ productive and responsible use of social media for learning
Each person – read out title to the whole group
Pick out 2-4 key words that describe the essence of your project
Eg teachers, students, social media, learning
Write keywords + your name on post-it notes (1 post-it note per keyword)
3 or 4 small groups
Organise post-its: Same, similar, different
Share with whole group
Identify kindred spirits – potential peer learners, supporters
Any original spirits (no common interests)?
What else do you have in common?
Eg. IT expertise, subject expertise, good researcher or writer
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