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Learning to Leisure:
Why Google is not a library and Facebook is not a classroom
Presented by Professor Tara Brabazon
www.brabazon.net / [email protected]
Two maxims to consider
1. Too many decisions about teaching and learning have been
automated.
2. Fewer media create more meaning
Learning to leisure?
1. The bias of communication
2. Paul Willis’s Learning to leisure
3. Digital natives and analogue underemployment
4. From Prensky to Vgotsky
Part One
THE BIAS OF
COMMUNICATION
How to think about the proliferation of
‘the social’ through work and education
Form
Medium
Content
Information
Media as translators
Conflation of social media and
educational media
Hi Tara, I am sorry to leave this sort of message on your fb, but I did
try to email you and I am not sure if it worked!
I am just stuck on the 2nd creative industries assignment, I have no
idea where to even start! I wanted to get some kind of a plan going
but now I am getting a bit worried about it. :-( X
Hey Tara, just a quick thing regarding the second assignment
for Creative Industries. :-D I have decided I want to write as a
person who is working to organise the 2012 Olympics, but I am
having trouble thinking of a specific role! Do you have any
ideas? (Sorry, I know it's kind of cheating!) X
Hi Tara need suggest ,could i write in "assignment 2" in
practicing media about How to use the image in the security
works ,Explained at the outset the importance of visual method
in general , the kinds of pictures , then go to the pictures in the
security works and how important image is not only a kind of
art, but in other way.
Hi Ali
Pop me a message on the Brighton email - I can probably answer in
more depth than FB will let me here! The key with the second
assignment for PMR is that you demonstrate that you can use the
method. That is the key. Not sure what you meant about ‘security
issues’ But the key is to make sure that you’ve got all the key reading
from the course and your further reading. Have a look in the course
discussion forum. I posted a paper from one of our former students,
Venessa Paech who got her work published. Even though it was
based on ethnography – use that as a guide. And contact me via
email so I can give you advice in further depth!
Part Two
LEARNING TO LEISURE
More and more young people are now deeply and permanently
technologically enhanced, connected to their peers and the world in
ways no generation has ever been before. Streams of information
come at them 24/7 … Do such kids need school? More and more of
them (almost a third nationally and half in the cities) think not, and
drop out.
Marc Prensky
hey tara!
thanks for giving me a pass! i'm very happy, but at to same time it
gave me a kick in the arse and now i want to do better. i haven't
really been in touch with you before, because i'm a bit shy to speak in
front of the whole class. i just want to say that i really enjoy your
classes and i'm so happy to know you. You are fabulous! love, tereza
This opposition is expressed mainly as a style. It is lived out in
countless small ways which are special to the school institution,
instantly recognized by the teachers, and an almost ritualistic part of
the daily fabric of life for the kids.
Paul Willis
Sent: 16 September 2011 22:16
To: Tara Brabazon
Subject: New student
Hello Tara
I have just added this course today as I heard its a very interesting class
and you learn alot . I have missed only 1 lecture and would like to know
if I can still answer the 2 questions in the discussion to get the mark and
be involved I have read your powerpoint slides.
I'm taking 5 courses and they all require reading and writing and my gpa
is low and would like to bring it up, do you think I should be in this
course does it require alot of reading?
Let me know please if its the right course for me.
Subject: Request for help :)
Date Sent: November 16, 2011 10:03 PM
To: Brabazon, Tara ()
Hi Tara!
I would like to make a request. I am doing this essay for one of courses,
which discusses the effects that the 9/11 attacks left on the Muslim
community. I needed someone to edit my essay for me, and I thought no
one can do a better job than you. Can you please edit my essay for me! I
will finish it by tomorrow morning, and if you give me the consent, I'll
send it to as soon as I can.
Thank You :)
“Students from under-represented groups may require more extensive
support or more radical changes in teaching and learning strategies if
they are to approach completion rate norms … a priority should be to
find ways of ensuring more students succeed in completing their
course and qualification rather than intensifying the marketing effort
to expand recruitment.”
Geoff Pugh, Gwen Coates and Nick Adnett
The new working-class jobs – coded as forms of ‘professional’ labor
– bring with them neither good wages and benefits, nor do they
reproduce working-class culture. As the first generation to have
earned a post-secondary credential, many working-class kids have
been inducted into the value systems and expectations of the salaried
middle class, but without acquiring the accoutrements.
Stan Aronowitz
The problem with online learning:
an unfortunate historical synergy
Widening
participation
agenda
Online learning
Managerialism
in education
The ideological confusion
progress
efficiency
Technological
change
Section Three
DIGITAL NATIVES AND ANALOGUE
UNDEREMPLOYMENT
“It is very likely that our students’ brains have physically changed –
and are different from ours – as a result of how they grew up.”
Marc Prensky
Findings of the ‘Google Generation’
Report
• “There are very very few controlled studies that account for age and
information seeking behaviour systematically: as a result there is
much mis-information.”
• Not only “the Google Generation” reading less, but academics more
generally.
• ‘The Google Generation’ is not dumbing down: “society is dumbing
down”
• “The information literacy of young people, has not improved with the
widening access to technology: in fact, their apparent facility with
computers disguises some worrying problems.”
• “Young scholars are using tools that require little skill: they appear
satisfied with a very simple or basic form of searching.”
Information
Information
Literacy
Media
Literacy
Multimodality
The four digital divides
Access
Skills
Economic
Opportunity
Democratic
participation
Part Four
FROM PRENSKY TO VYGOTSKY
Lev Vygotsky
Zones of Proximal Development
Moving from experience to expertise
There exist devices to aid the teacher in extending
the student’s range of experience, in helping him to
understand the underlying structure of the material
he is learning, and in dramatizing the significance
of what he is learning.
Jerome Bruner
“The belief that all genuine education
comes about through experience does not
mean that all experiences are genuinely or
equally educative. Experience and
education cannot be directly equated to
each other. For some experiences are miseducative.”
John Dewey
Zones of Proximal Development
What I
can’t do
What I
can do
with help
What I
can do
The key question
How do we know what we do
not know?
Email from a 4th year university student, within two
weeks of finishing her course
From: Trish
Sent: 14 March 2012 12:14
Hi TB,
I feel like you are going to hate me by the end of this.
I have a bunch of questions about some of the sources we need. Here they are:
- How do you find a scholarly monograph? I get that you don’t want a textbook,
but how do I go about finding that?
- For the ebook, it has to be strictly online? That's a hard hard find
- What in the world is a refereed article? And of course how do you find those and
know that they are refereed?
- what is the difference between a vodcast and a youtube video (could be a stupid
questions)
HELP
“We need to be teaching about
technologies, not just with or through
them.”
David Buckingham