Computational Literacies Lab

12: Connected learning

Week 12 (November 20)

Bringing our transliteracies focus back to the concrete context of schools in communities, our focus turns to connected learning. We will discuss schools as nodes within broad networks of learning, participation, and opportunity.

Week 12 Notes

  • Logistics
    • Cross-course collaboration.
    • Case study assignment posted.
    • Ethnographic fieldnotes presentations posted.
    • Discussion group tasks
      • Discuss the case study assignment. Do you want to work together?
      • Next week's topic is open--do you have topics to propose?
      • For next week, also watch and discuss fieldnotes presentations.
  • Responding to discussion reports
    • Are STEM and STEAM useful constructs?
      • Varun: I think they way STEM and STEAM are used is just made up.
      • History of STEM / NSF / US federal involvement in education.
    • Integrating CS into other disciplines
      • Andrew: One thing this class has shown me is that CS has some of the easiest implications for including arts.
      • Danielle: Electronic music class...
      • Muhammad: "For example, an ESL student might use CT to analyze sentence structures and identify grammatical rules, like subject-verb agreement or the order of adjectives."
    • Preparing teachers to integrate computing across disciplines
      • Muhammad: "Educators should be knowledgeable in technology themselves whereby they integrate it effectively into their teaching. This means going beyond basic proficiency and understanding how technology can enhance learning across different subjects."
      • Danielle: "Integration is the ideal, but the current teacher education tracks are not built for these types of integrated classes."
  • This week's reading: Connected learning
    • Bringing course full-circle.
    • Genre: This is a long report. Strategies for making sense.
    • Projective theory. "An agenda for research and design."
    • Could connected learning be a suitable framework for K12 computing education? Could it be a suitable framework for the design of a school?

Readings

Ito, M., Gutiérrez, K., Livingstone, S., Penuel, B., Rhodes, J., Salen, K., Schor, J., Sefton-Green, J., & Watkins, S. C. (2013). Connected Learning: An agenda for research and design. Digital Media and Learning Research Hub.