Presentation in: Interactive Technology in Education (ITE) 2014 conference, 9th - 11th of April 2014 at Hotel Aulanko, Hämeenlinna, Finland.

1. Merja Bauters
Jukka Purma
Aalto University School of Arts,
Design and Architecture
firstname.surname@aalto.fi
Change of practice as
learning & reflection as
control of habits
Interactive Technology in Education (ITE)
2014 conference, 9th - 11th of April 2014 at
Hotel Aulanko, Hämeenlinna, Finland.

2. Sun kuva!!!!!
Merja Bauters
Post doctoral researcher
Jukka Purma
Researcher
Learning Environments
research group (LeGroup)
Media Lab Helsinki
Aalto University
School of Arts, Design and
Architecture

3. Three Things to Think
1. Context and time
2. Experience grounds learning and reflection
3. Ach So! : mobile video tool for learning

4. Context and time

5. Construction sector

6. What are the main challenges for learning
in construction sector?

7. Harsh conditions
Lack of time and space
Difficult to predict moments for the need to
learn new tools, practices, and materials
What are the main challenges for learning
in construction sector?

8. Practices and situations

9. How to support learning, when the work
is connected to physical practices, places
and unique situations?

10. Make learning possible as part of the work.
Make learning possible in situ.
Provide tools to enhance learning in a network.
How to support learning, when the work
is connected to physical practices, places
and unique situations?
(Kooken et al., 2007, Kerosuo and Toiviainen, 2011,
Mørch and Skaanes 2010)

11. Three Things to Think
1. Context and time ✔
2. Experience grounds learning and reflection
3. Ach So! : mobile video tool for learning

12. Experience as learning

13. Learning through Experiences

14. Experiences may suggest changes of practices.
The need to change pushes reflective processing
of the situations…
…which results as new practices (habits).
Learning through Experiences
Peirce, C. S. (1931-58). Collected Papers of Charles S. Peirce. 8 vols. Ed. by Hartshorne, C. & Weiss, P.
(vols. 1-6), & Burks, A. (vols. 7-8). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

15. Reflection in work

16. Reflection in the moment

17. Moments of doubts and inspiration.
Feeling of irritation, annoyance.
Clues and hints help us to understand where the irritation
comes from.
Moments of qualitative immediacy.
Reflection in the moment
Peirce, C. S. (1931-58). Collected Papers of Charles S. Peirce. 8 vols. Ed. by Hartshorne, C. & Weiss, P.
(vols. 1-6), & Burks, A. (vols. 7-8). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
John Dewey: The Later Works, 17 vols. (1981-1991). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

18. How to Enhance Reflection?

19. When experience triggers reflection, a tool may turn that
reflection into visible and shareable action.
Such tool can make a common (or an uncommon) execution
of a task into a shared object for e.g. improvement.
How to Enhance Reflection?

20. Three Things to Think
1. Context and time ✔
2. Experience grounds learning and reflection ✔
3. Ach So! : mobile video tool for learning

21. http://achso.aalto.fi
Ach So!

22. • Inspired by AnViAnno, a proof of
concept app for video annotation with
Android devices (by RWTH – Aachen).
• Redesign and develop a mobile tool for
learning in construction
• Agile design and development:
iterations, testing, more development.

23. enact experience : record  annotate  share
reflection
Genres to help getting started : site visit, problem, trick of trade, good work.

24. Clips to be stored in device and in cloud.
..short clips, very short clips..
Use automatic meta-data for recommendations: location, time, author etc.
 Social Semantic Server tries to infer workplaces and routines

25. Future research and
development
• More research on the use in the wild:
– Learning experience / collaborative learning / social
networks.
– Organizational issues.
– Social and political questions.
• Better support for harsh conditions
– record clips with wearable cameras (GoPro bridge)
– Other ways to record without using hands (glasses?)
• More annotation options
– tricks with the annotation marker
– hand-drawn annotations
– voice annotations (and voice to text?)

26. When you carry Ach So! with you, you
know to keep your eyes open for learning
experiences.

27. Thank you!
Merja Bauters
Jukka Purma
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Helsinki – Finland
firstname.surname@aalto.fi
The Learning Layers project is supported by the European Commission
within the 7th Framework Programme under Grant Agreement
#318209, under the DG Information society and Media (E3), unit of
Cultural heritage and technology-enhanced learning. http://learning-
layers.eu