These are the main positions that Rasmussen identifies in her observations. They mainly refer to the 2 teachers and 5 pupils. She wasn’t focusing on positioning and identity, so this is presumably only a few of the more obvious positions. I can see that some of them would actively support learning, while others would act […]
Social loafing seems to me to be definitely a position you can take within an online learning environment. However, as it’s not a term in common use, you couldn’t really have it as your identity. Even if it were in common use, would you identify yourself as a social loafer? Probably not. So here’s an […]
‘If we take someone’s words and make them our own, we position ourselves in relation to the other.’ (p38) This is very relevant in online correspondence – particularly in email
Won’t say too much about this, as I’ve recalled Holland’s book to the library and I guess I’ll get round to reading it one day. ‘”Perhaps an AA member can/will tell the story of her life as an alcoholic only sith support of other AA members. The story lies within her zone of proximal development, […]
Rasmussen (p13) ‘Piaget explained that when a child experiences something new she will constantly try to fit this experience into existing known structures’. I think this depends on how she has been positioned, and how she has positioned herself. She may lump it in with existing UNknown structures – considering it something not knowable, or […]
Is there something deeper here about identities and position (must sort out what the difference is)? Is learning a continual repositioning of yourself, and a changing of the positions open to you? Is teaching a focused way of helping people to position themselves in more knowledgeable/educated/informed ways? This may be too generic, because as time […]
Ingvill says that ‘in studying an educational activity such as project work, it is essential to take into acoount that participants have existing and established relationships.’ That’s obviously true of her work in the classroom, but I wonder to what extent it would relate to an asynchronous conference? There may be pre-existing relationships from other […]
Been reading Ingvill’s doctoral thesis: ‘Project work and ICT: studying learning as participation trajectories’ I’m thinking at the moment about my PhD as an exploration of how people construct their identities in online learning communities. Which identities help them to learn and which identities get in the way of learning? How can course designers and […]
Haythornthwaite, C., Kazmer, M. M., Robins, J. and Shoemaker, S. (2000) Community development among distance learners: temporal and technological dimensions JCMC, 6 (1) Student quotes include this: “I’ll have to tell you that it has been one of the most stressful times in my whole life… I started to have a lot of anxiety…. Just […]
I’ve decided to make a point of emailing researchers when I have read their article and found it useful. This was recommended in U500 last year, and seems like a good idea. Apart from the fact that they might get back to me with some useful ideas or references, it also helps me to fix […]