Digital Learning Lives
Trajectories, Literacies, and Schooling
1st Edition
Published on 16. September 2013
X, 280 pages
978-1-4539-1019-1 (ISBN)
Description
Today's world is in turmoil. Economic crises are bringing countries to the brink of ruin, and old models are being questioned. The same sense of crisis also exists in contemporary education, and there is a need to explore new educational models. Digital Learning Lives: Trajectories, Literacies, and Schooling is a contribution in this direction. This book explores the importance of the adoption of digital technologies by contemporary education systems. Partly a synthesis of findings from projects carried out in Norway by the author over the past 15 years, the data have been extended to raise key questions about the effectiveness of current education strategies for the Facebook and YouTube generation. Along the way, a promising approach for future developments in education is introduced that embraces the engagement of digital media - what Ola Erstad terms 'learning lives'. Use of digital media in schools and in everyday culture becomes the catalyst for exploring learning as life-deep (studying identity processes), life-wide (studying learners across contexts), and life-long (studying learning as trajectories and timescales). The book is targeted toward courses on digital learning, educational change, school development, and formal-informal learning.
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Ola Erstad is Professor in the Department of Educational Research, University of Oslo, Norway. He has been working both within the fields of media and communication studies and educational research. He is on editorial boards for international journals and recently co-edited Identity, Community and Learning Lives in the Digital Age with Julian Sefton-Green.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword ix
- 1. Learning, Lives, and Technology 1
- Imagine 1
- Regaining Engagement 4
- Beyond School 5
- Trajectories and Pathways 7
- Mediational Spaces 9
- Literacy Spaces 11
- Lives and Learning 13
- Education and Media in a Nordic Context 15
- The Projects 20
- Framings and Objectives 23
- Part I: Digital Lives
- 2. "Opportunity Knocks"-Epistemic Agency of a Digital Generation 29
- Introduction 29
- The Growth of Generations 30
- Cultural Complexity of a Digital Generation 33
- Standardized Conceptions of the Learner 37
- Cultural Provisions 39
- Self-initiated Practices 44
- Mind the Gap 45
- New Performance Spaces 46
- 3. In the Mix 48
- Introduction 48
- Two "Remixers" 49
- Remembering Dada: A Cultural History of Remixing 53
- Contemporary Understandings 55
- Authoring and Sharing 57
- Constructing the Content Creators 59
- School as a Site for Digital Content Creation 61
- Authorship in the Wild 74
- Part II: Digital Learning
- 4. Digital Competencies, Media Literacies, and School Practices 79
- Introduction 79
- Unpacking Media Literacy 80
- Connecting Media and Literacy 81
- Towards Multiple Literacies 84
- A Field Looking for a Mission 87
- Different Frameworks 89
- A Norwegian Curriculum Initiative 94
- Five Dimensions of Media Practices in Schools 96
- Literacy and Citizenship in the Digital Age 100
- Moving Outside the Box 101
- 5. Learning Environments for Knowledge Creation 103
- Introduction 103
- Student-centered Learning Environments 104
- The Challenge of Project Work 108
- Crossing Borders and Modalities 112
- Building Bridges to the Community 117
- Towards Knowledge Creation 122
- Forms of Knowledge Creation 127
- A Project on "Global Warming" 128
- Innovations in the Making 143
- Part III: Digital Learning Lives
- 6. Learners in Motion 149
- Introduction 149
- Identities as Learning Pathways 150
- Ways of Representations 152
- Spatial Mobilities 153
- Studying It-Some Methodological Challenges 155
- Snapshots of Digital Learners 157
- Following the Learners 166
- 7. Blending the Boundaries 168
- Introduction 168
- Contextual Orientations 169
- Media Studies as an Intermediate Space 172
- "The Street Art" Project 178
- Agency in Digital Storytelling 181
- Social Media at the Borderline -Space2cre8 188
- Mixed Activities 198
- 8. Expanding Conceptions of School 199
- Introduction 199
- School Development and Digital Media 200
- Change as Expansive Learning 203
- Piloting for Change 205
- Learning Networks 212
- Schooling as Life-wide and Life-deep 218
- 9. New Life to Learning 220
- Introduction 220
- Media Literacy, Ecologies, and Empowerment 221
- Everyday and Academic Practices 229
- Challenging the Assessment System 234
- Digital Learning Lives in the 21st Century 240
- Entering the Twilight Zone 243
- References 247
- Index 269
