1. Informed learning and
the Crossing
Boundaries with
Reading project
Kathleen Smeaton

2. Background
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3. Research Aim
To explore the experience of using information to
learn in a specific workshop of the CBWR program.
This will be examined through multiple
perspectives, the intended experience, enacted
experience and lived experience.

4. Why?
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5. Digital natives (?)

6. Literacy
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7. „Social and economic
advantage being linked to
better access to and use of
information‟
(Meneses &
Monino, 2010, p.198)

8. Informed learning
“aware of the role that information is playing
in their learning experiences and are able to
use that knowledge to their advantage”
“ information gives form and shape, gives
organising power, gives
life, animates, figures and fashions learning
as well as imbuing learning with vitality”
(Bruce & Hughes, 2010, p.3)

9. Why informed learners?
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10. Phenomenography
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11. Phenomenography
„a research specialisation aimed at the
mapping of the qualitatively different
ways in which people
experience, conceptualise, perceive
and understand aspects of the world
around them‟
(Marton, 1988, p.178)

12. The workshop
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13. CC image courtesy nixter via Flickr
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14. Thanks
@kathleensme
kathleen.smeaton@connect.qut.edu.au