The characteristics of participatory learning - 7 views
-
Our goal by engaging educators in digitally-connected, asynchronous forms of collaborative learning was that they would gain an organic, authentic understanding of what we (NML) mean by "participatory culture" - and thereby adopt the value of its practices and bring them to their students and districts.
-
We originally intended the course to utilize our existing public Ning community as a way to offer transparency to this learning process and allow others in the NML community to tap in and learn from what the early adopters were doing. Though each of them was equipped to share a plethora of expertise and experience that would have undoubtedly been valued by the larger community, the idea of "failing in public" overrode their desire to contribute.
-
So is it little wonder that it was so difficult to get participation from educators (posing as students) while offering all the affordances that flexible learning has to offer?
- ...3 more annotations...