‘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 […]
Thought I’d posted this before, but can’t find it. It’s is my list against which I judge learning theories. If they don’t apply to everything on this list, they’re incomplete. * Early Years – learning through play * ACE (accelerated Christian education): children are assessed on entry and progress at their own speed, working through […]
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 […]
‘According to the sociocultural perspective, human learning cannot be fully undestood without understanding human activity. In studying learning, therefore, one should focus on how tools, mental and material, are used in human activity and how humans construct knowledge and understanding by the use of tools. Moreover, the physical and social environments are considered integral to […]
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 […]
Quentin Jones (1997) Virtual communities, virtual settlements and cyber-archaeology: a theoretical outline JCMC 3(3) Defining a cyber-settlement and a virtual community Cyber settlement is a cyber-place that is symbolically delineated by a topic of interest and within which a significant proportion of interrelated group-CMC occurs. A virtual community is a set of social relationships forged […]
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 […]