MULTIDISCIPLINRY NATURE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES.pptx
Creative informal learning environments with new technologies for indigenous communities
1. CITE Research Symposium 2012
The University of Hong Kong
CREATIVE INFORMAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENTS
with new technologies
for indigenous communities
Sdenka Zobeida SALAS PILCO
June 2012
2. Outline
• Research context
• Research questions
• Some definitions
• Informal Environments
• Creative informal environments
5. THE CONTEXT (3)
Rural schools
implemented with
500 000 laptops
Sugar
interface
6. Research questions:
1) What are the characteristics of children’s learning
. from these native communities?
2) Could alternative environments provide a
. contextualized learning respecting Andean and
. Amazonian culture and traditions?
3) How new technologies could be used inside these
. new alternative environments in order to
. improve learning?
7. Some definitions
Learning is understood as a collaborative process of knowledge
LEARNING construction by learners themselves (Bigge & Shermis, 1999; Piaget,
1964; Vygotsky, 1930/2004)
INFORMAL Learning resulting from daily life activities related to work, family or leisure.
LEARNING It is not structured and does not lead to certification. Informal learning may
be intentional but in most cases it is non-intentional. it is usually controlled
by learners’ individualized interests. (Commission of the European
Communities, 2001).
LEARNING Learning environments are spaces where the resources, time, and reasons are
ENVIRONMENTS
available to a group of people to support their learning (Rieber, 2001)
Informal environments are “a broad array of settings that can capture
INFORMAL
ENVIRONMENTS lifelong, life-wide, and life-deep learning” (National Research
Council, 2009 p.47).
CREATIVITY Ideas that are both novel and valuable (Boden, 1999; Robinson,
2001/2011).
8. Informal Environments
Museums, zoos, community clubs,
science clubs, and so on.
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9. Characteristics of informal environments (NRC,2009)
Participation is voluntary
Include diverse participants
Build on learners’ prior knowledge and interests
Participants have control over their learning
Engage participants in multiple ways
Use different media
Encourage participants’ direct interactions
10. Discovering
their own
creative
strengths
Facilitate
Promote
critical
experiment
evaluation
and inquiry
of ideas
FOSTERING
CREATIVITY
(Robinson,
2011)
Expression
Willingness
of personal
to make
ideas and
mistakes
feelings
Willingness
to take
risks
11. Creative informal learning environments
Community-based
Build on learners’ interests and prior knowledge
Combining different resources
Creative
Informal Safe space to take risks, make mistakes
Learning
Environments
just–in-time feedback
Providing mentorship and
Nurturing playfulness and creativity
Empowering learners, giving them voice