Mobile Work-Based Learning & Context - Cristoph Pimmer
To create and encourage mobile learning opportunities across work contexts, a number of cognitive, didactical, organisational, socio cultural, technological, legal and usability related issues has to be addressed. Consequently, the central question to be addressed should focus on how changing contexts can (positively) impact on the process of learning (drawing on Kukulska-Hulme et al., in press according to the respective situation.
Implementing a socio- cultural ecology for learning at work – ideas and issues - Graham Attwell
Graham Attwell
5:57pm 30 November 2009
Notes from groupwork session
Defining agency in relation to work based learning
How much value your work and what kind of job you do effects willingness to learn
How is mobile media used for meaning making in wbl – depends what occupation – eg bike courier
People with no technologies often more important (eg managers with secretaries - but identity dependent on what kind of job you had.
Conversation about up and deskilling – and balance – eorformance support associated with deskilling
Learning materials – mash up -
Learning and play and work based learning – how cab play lead to employment (or social capital)
notion of user generated content – In different work based contexts – no way to user generate work patterns analysing activities – computationally interesting but social and work life issues
Discussion over problem solving
Privacy issues big – what contexts can be shared and what permissions
Group 3
What are we going to lose – global phone booth and acceptable behaviour
Mobile phones used mainly for voice (????what about text)......mobiles as tools for appropriation for work practices – is this leading to 24/7 working..social ambiguity / fuzzyness. Issues and balance between dependency and intruding. Do not want tracking systems. Hard time separating todays work from tomorrows work. Interrupt driven society. Knowledge emulation society.
Need synergetic balance between on-line and off-line society
Looked at structures. Important to understand structural changes currently happening in world of work – increased importance of SMEs and challenges of different sectors in relation to learning.
We know too little about nature of work practices in different contexts – may been ethnographic studies in order to start think about role of mobile devices.
Issue re habitus of learning is it knowledge management or learning.
Can you separate structures from cultural practice?
Context sensitivity important.
Intervention around mobile devices which does not support current practices will not succeed.
Not convinced that productivity paradigm driving introduction mobile device – more possibly a communication paradigm – this has implications for introduction for learning.
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Graham Attwell
10:13am 30 November 2009
Live blogging - Christoph providing introduction to work based learning.
Looking at backround theory - double loop learning, communities of practice, reflective practitioner, activity theory / systems.
Communities practice has ignored issue of power and distinction between formal and informal learning (noting difficulty of distinguihing betwen two). Importance of organisational aspects of work based learning - tension between agency and structure
Norbert counterposing socio cultural theory to activity systems theory.
Group discussion on use of mobiles for work based learning outcomes later :)