Monday, October 17, 2011

Seamless Learning

I have been working on a project to study the notion of ?Seamless Learning over the past three years where we looked into the role of technology in mediating learning across the boundaries. When it came to creating a video, I found it so difficult to create a video capturing the seamless learning that we were studying the children. I knew it was happening with the anecdotes we have and experiences we had with the students, but why is it so difficult to show a clear seamless learning example? Is it because we did not able to capture everything in video? Or is it the very nature of seamless learning that does not lend itself to be captured? How do we know seamless learning has happened? I have some questions on the Seamless Learning to re-conceptualize this notion again:

What are the seams in seamless learning?
How do we know these are the seams?
What learning moves across the seams? What does not move?
What are the conditions for learning to move across seams?
Is informal learning and formal learning in school a seam? Should we put a seam between them?

What are the conditions in the classroom for emergent learning to occur?

 Can we design for emergent learning to occur?
What are the design tradeoffs for structure in planned learning and emergent learning to happen?

To answer some of these questions, I am going to record my learning experiences in this blog to understand how I learn in the emergent. I am starting to think that maybe learning is learning whether we learn in school or out of school. 

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