project presentation kathleen smeaton

Informed learning and the Crossing Boundaries with Reading projectKathleen Smeaton

Background

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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.

Why?

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Digital natives (?)

Literacy

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‘Social and economic advantage being linked to better access to and use of information’

(Meneses & Monino, 2010, p.198)

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)

Why informed learners?

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Phenomenography

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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)

The workshop

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Thanks

@kathleensme

kathleen.smeaton@connect.qut.edu.au