Session 6 - Connected Learning is Production Centered

Another important principle is that learning be production centered. The Digital Media & Learning Research Hub explains:

Connected learning environments are designed around production, providing tools and opportunities for learners to produce, circulate, curate, and comment on media. Learning that comes from actively creating, making, producing, experimenting, remixing, decoding, and designing, fosters skills and dispositions for lifelong learning and productive contributions to today’s rapidly changing work and political conditions.

Where are the classrooms that are doing this well and how do they ensure that the other principles are in place? This and other user generated questions will be explored as we continue through session 6. 

Discussions

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Producers vs. Consumers

I spent two days at our state technology convention (NETA). One of the keynote speakers shared this statistic: 90% of our students are consumers of c... read more
Hi Joel. These are great and make me think that there might be a great resource to surface out of your experiments with your students here that you m... read more

Mozilla Webmakers

I don’t know what I’m getting myself into, but yesterday I accepted an invitation to join Mozilla’s Webmaker’s Google+ group as well as their ... read more
Thanks Joel! I've signed up too. ... read more

My favorite principle!

Production centered seems to me to be the heart of Connected Learning. It is the doing and the making.It's getting your hands dirty, tinkering, makin... read more
Great idea Jennifer. That project sounds pretty rad. I've done the student designed rubric before and ave liked the results. It encourages the useful... read more

Production Centered Basic Tools

So, currently I am reading Essentials of Online Course Design and it is reaffirming a lot of what I believe about the classroom while reminding me of ... read more
Good question. I teach English and began having kids do digital video composition back in '02 with an indigo Mac with maybe 50GB of hard drive space u... read more