Learner-Generated Contexts Group

Building an Ambient Learning City

Using the Emergent Learning Model

MOSI-ALONG

Fred Garnett

CAL

April 15th 2011

#mosialong

or Smart Mobs

in Smart in Smart Cities…Cities…

in Smart in Smart Cities…Cities…

Ambient Learning City

Topics

What is an Ambient Learning City?

Learner-Generated Contexts & Ambient Learning

Emergent Learning Model

Integrating Informal, Non-formal & Formal learning

Making the Ambient Learning City Work

MOSI-Ambient Learning Open Network Group

JISC-Bid Developing Community Content

Background Ideas to Ambient Learning City

Background to Learner-Generated Contexts

Resource Links

Ambient Learning City

What is an Ambient Learning City?

VISION; Building Inclusive Learning ContextsAn uninterrupted opportunity to interact with a range of contexts

?How would you design learning now knowing what we know?

*Turn the Institutions inside out, make their interests visible

*Design learning resources for appropriation

*Enable self-organised inter-disciplinary learning to emerge

Trust the learner!

Situate learning in the context in which learners live

Focus on supporting learner interests not content preservation

Design learning Interactions as though learning matters

Enable learning consequences to be beneficial in context

Community-responsive curricula

Ambient Learning City

Learner-Generated Contexts

A Coincidence of Motivations leading to

Agile Configurations(2007)

Ambient Learning City

Designing Ambient Learning How do we make the City ready to

support learner-generated contexts?

Start with the Context &

Design for Appropriation!or

E-enabling Oxford Road

Ambient Learning City

Concepts; Realist not Idealist

MOSI-Ambient Learning Open Network Group

Emerged from the Ambient Learning City project, derived from a learner-generated digital libraries EU-bid proposal

Based on the Emergent Learning Model ELM

ELM designed to meet EU-i2015 targets to integrate Informal, Non-formal & Formal learning by reconceptualising

Smart Mobs + Everything is Miscellaneous means… Here Comes Everybody

Emergent Learning Model Concepts

“Informal Learning, the social processes that support learning in any context” is about People

“Non-formal Learning, Structured Learning Resources without formal learning outcomes” is about Resources

“Formal Learning, the process of administering accreditation and qualifications” is about Institutions

(See http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/fg-ouemergenttable )

The issue then raised from this proposed structure is 'flow.' Do we start with institutions and impose structures that work for them, or start with the social processes of self-organisation and design systems and resources to support the learning that emerges?

ELM Issues

This Model of Learning requires expertise in educational professionals which can support learners as they are served across three phases of the learning process;

Informal Learning Phase; enabling models of learner self-organisation that can be recognised by institutions post-hoc

Non-Formal Phase; Learning resources have to be designed for learner appropriation. Accreditation opportunities need to embedded & quality assured (through templates?)

Formal Learning Phase; Need to support structured resource provision, map to accredited learning outcomes, validating learning and managing financial flows guarantee the security and authentication of learners digital resources will enable learning strategies & policy outcomes to be provided to the government (See Policy Forest outcomes)

ELM Flows & Learning Literacy

A Learning Literacy will emerge by enabling participatory models of learner self-organisation that create agile configurations dynamically in institutions

Non-Formal; Learning resources have to be designed for appropriation whilst provide accreditation opportunities and allow co-creation (e.g. learning sequences, nQuire)

Formal; Need to support resource provision, map to learning accreditation outcomes, provide quality assurance of learning in context & feedforward policy outcomes nationally

This key institutional change alters the role of the teacher who work to support the learners 'literacy' in using this model in any context.

Making the Ambient Learning City Work

Key Criteria; Put the context into learning

Social; (CY) Believe everyone wants to learn!

Learning is a social process that emerges from context

Howard Rheingold; Smart Mobs

Resources; Design learning resources for appropriation! Major issues, learning resources, especially in the UK, even OERs really poor, must allow for co-creation & appropriation

David Weinberger; Everything is Miscellaneous

Institutions; Support the self-organisation of learning!

Provide: points of organisation, training, guarantors of learning that enable the Quality Assurance of resources

Clay Shirky; Here Comes Everybody

Making the Ambient Learning City Work

The Industrial Revolution threw a bomb into communities

It dispersed, people, families, lives, narratives, histories; dozens, hundreds, thousands of miles apart

The Transport Revolution enabled people to overcome distance and resolve this dispersal through travel, but with devastating environmental effects

The Digital Revolution allows us to design people-centric systems that can be appropriated to meet self-determined hyper-local needs.

Ambient Learning isn’t next generation technology push, it is about returning people to the centre of their lives using NSU Model of Tech Change; Networks, Services, Users

Life is no longer elsewhere it can be Right Here Right Now

MOSI-ALONG Bid Elements

FOCUS; Developing/Co-creating Community Content

a) Review the way MOSI Digital resources are used by learners in informal contexts (PVM);

b) Provide opportunities for the crowd-sourcing of digital content, from which can develop new relationships between curators and users; what might be called participative curatorial strategies; (RunCoCo)

c) Create new templates for the digitization of museum resources; (Xerte, Web 2.0, media-citizens)

d) Review ways that digitally-curated resources can be used for formal learning outcomes; (ELM, LGDL, OCMC)

e) Provide guidance and toolkits for all HEIs to build on the lessons of RunCoCo and refresh the way they think about using learning resource creation for community engagement

Ambient Learning City

William Gibson

The Future is already here;It is just unevenly

distributed…

Ambient Learning City

Fred Garnett

The Answers are already out there;

We just aren’t asking the right Questions yet

Ambient Learning City

Ambient City Background

Town-Planning, Kropotkin; Fields Factories & Workshops

Van & taxi-driver, situationist flaneurs, psycho-geography

Creekside Urban Ecology Centre

Mudlarking Ambient Learning Context in Deptford Creek

An Information Ecology of Community Grids for Learning

Manchester CGfL Steering Group (learners.org & 3G)

CALL initiative, CGfLs supporting distributed learning

Northala Ambient Learning Park LB Ealing (DC10 RITA)

Kew Participatory Science Gardens Proposal 2010

Proboscis; City as Material project 2010

Manchester Digital Corridor (20yrs of Information City)

Learner-Generated ContextsSome background factors;

Metadata for Community Content; Tools & Skills not content

Community Devmnt Learning Model; intermediaries, interest

lastfridaymob; Creative, Interactive, Participative Tech Design

Learner Generated Contexts; “Coincidence of Motivations leading to Agile Configurations”

Open Context Model of Learning; PAH Continuum, 2007

Information Obesity (Drew); Cognitive Schemas

An Organisational Architecture of Participation; nPV 2008

Dynamic Policy Development; Policy Forest 2009

Ecology of Resources; More Able Partner support learning

(see Mitra’s Granny Cloud) (See next 3 slides)

Knowledge Curriculum

Resources

Administration

Organisation Environment

Underpinning concept: The Ecology of Resources model of context

Knowledge Curriculum

Resources

Administration

Organisation Environment

The Ecology of Resources model of context: for LGC we need bi-directional arrows in all parts of the model

Knowledge Curriculum

Resources

Administration

Organisation Environment

The Ecology of Resources model of context: we also need to identify appropriate boundaries or filters

Ambient Learning City Resources

Blogs (continually updated)

Heutagogic Archive;

Mosi-Along

Slideshare

Emergent Learning Model

References; (Videos)

Howard Rheingold; Smart Mobs

David Weinberger; Everything is Miscellaneous

Clay Shirkey; Here Comes Everybody

Learner-Generated Contexts

Building an Ambient Learning City

Using the Emergent Learning Model

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