Media and Learning Ecosystems: Blurring Boundaries, Changing Minds

Media and Learning Ecosystems:Blurring BoundariesChanging Minds

Helen KeeganSenior Lecturer and ResearcherInteractive Media and Social TechnologyUniversity of Salford, UKtwitter.com/heloukeehttp://heloukee.wordpress.comh.keegan@salford.ac.uk

The Screen

The Big Shift

Then Now

AUTONOMY

OWNERSHIP

PHOTO SLIDESHOW

1. Media Culture

4. Role fluidity

2. Careers

3. Disciplines

1. Media Culture

2. Education to Industry

EUREKA!

3. Disciplinary boundaries

Mobile Phone Film project

Disciplinary assumptions

Learning through discontinuity

Generative constraints

Rethinking practice

“When the new media replace or mix with traditional ones, a long established practice may be perturbed or even disrupted by the discontinuity.... the appearance of a new medium in a specific domain of practice, whatever conceptualization one may prefer to account for the phenomenon, is always a complex and dynamic event, involving a blend of discontinuity and continuity, disruption as well as construction”

LANZARA (2010) Remediation of practices: How new media change the ways we see and do things in practical domains First Monday Volume 15, Number 6 - 7 June 2010

4. Roles (fluid/fixed)

“I took the speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It’s about Russia”

WOODY ALLEN

THE END

Image Credits:SLIDE 2 – Luc Legay http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/2944876508/

SLIDE 11 http://superfastcomputer.com/archive/2003_05_01_archive.html

SLIDE 21 – Eddi 07 http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiritual_marketplace/3541738339

Media and Learning Ecosystems:Blurring BoundariesChanging Minds

Helen Keegan

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