Disruptive Media Learning
“As participants, creators and stakeholders it is important that we capitalise on, rather than fear, the shift in power enabled by this technologically driven change”
NEWFOTOSCAPES - GRAIN and Library of Birmingham
How appropriate are walled and closed institutions for the digitally mediated world?
Arguably that the biggest disruption facing educators is not caused by the global economic crisis itself, or even the failure of vision of any particular government, but the one housed by the behemoth server farms and the global content producers of the Internet. We are in the midst of an educational system in which knowledge is being liberated from scarcity; previously the scholar’s role was to offer authoritative elucidation on the (rare and inaccessible) book to the privileged few. Today in the new ecology of ‘knowledge’ abundance, we have the potential to educate the masses – our problem is keeping up with and deciding what content to educate them about.
The Disruptive Media Learning Lab is designed as a cross-University experimental unit that will provide support for new and on-going pedagogic development in new and disruptive technological spaces. The Lab draws upon areas from which the University has established a track record of innovation, e.g, the Serious Games Institure, which has pioneered the use of games logics and Apps in educational content delivery and the Media Department’s teaching and learning ‘experiments’ with Open Media Classes (e.g Phonar, Picbod, Creative Activism and Digital Formations) and research/publication experiments, the Disruptive Media group; as well as the LIRG research, evaluation, experimentation and publication on the impact of virtual worlds on pedagogy and chatbots in higher education.
Shaun Hides & Jonathan Shaw
8. #OpenMedia
Om
the 21st century university
an openmedia policy
tactical
sustainable
engaged
visible
collaborative
Approach http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/open-media-2/
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10. attitudes
subject
Develop a relationship which is more
based on our discipline rather than
this hierarchy of student and lecturer
Sean Carroll’s interview for Sony Ericsson on the Networked Society
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12. access to technology
creative art, design and media student
• “I can’t get to the software because it is only in
that lab!”
• “I can’t get in the lab!”
• “My work is on that computer!”
• “There's just not enough computers with our
software in the university!”
Biggest complaint
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20. Image: Creative Feed
stephen downes
abundance of knowledge
You just can't keep up?
Of course not.
“
http://halfanhour.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/education-as-platform-mooc-experience.html
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21. 1,000,000
not alone
a shared desire to know more extends beyond a room of 40 people!
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/photographic-mediations/id573348075?mt=10
Listens
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24. #cueafsEast Asian Film Society
open
In 1 week over 300,000 people read our student’s reviews from Udine Far East Film Festival
http://cueafs.com/
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25. open
intersection of political, social and cultural change
#creativeactCreative Activism
http://creativeactivism.net
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26. Disruptive Media
or how I learned to stop worrying and love the
Learning Lab
• respond to external changes which we don’t control (push)
• maximise enhanced capabilities, which we can direct (pull)
• support learning experiments and projects in safe space
• connect, collaborate and experiment
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27. The 21st century academy
Traditional educational/
publishing and media
platforms (books) will
not disappear.
Nor will expertise or
authority.
What will change is that
they will be valued
differently
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29. 21st century: the curator
As media educators scholars,
students and practitioners
we might hope that our role
becomes something like that
of the curator
‘arranging’ the flows of
information into new
outcomes within the
collective production of
knowledge
A very new skill set
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36. • Digital–connected media – prosumers
• Digital natives – un-knowing fish in water
• Agglomeration
• A content wall - the end of scarcity
• New modes of engagement – ADMD
• Attention scarcity/economy
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Context
46. • How we can help explore what the 21st century university can be
• What challenges and problems learning technologies we need to address
• Where the core values of what we do lie?
• How to use the capabilities of new media to magnify that value
• How we can develop digitally ‘professional/fluent’ digital natives
• What benefits can we develop from putting technologists, developers, librarians and
Academics together
• What new models/ways of working would be effective /disruptive for HE
• How we can work on developing radically new pedagogies and radically new
relationships with/offers to, our communities
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Thank you. QUESTIONS ??????
The kinds of things we hope to learn and share working in this way