Hive Digital Media Learning Fund Cohort Hangout February 19, 2014

What is the Connected Learning Experience Workshop

The LAMPBank Street College of Education

Hive NYC

Workshop OneGoal: Examine questions of learning and identity in the digital age, introducing principles of media ecology and connected learning.

Guiding Questions: Participants actively engager in activities designed to help them consider:

• themselves as members of a culture,• ways in which changes in

communication have transformed cultures over time,

• themselves as learners and consumers of different forms of communication, and

• ways in which their experiences can be linked to principles of Connected Learning.

Workshop Two

Goal: To generate an understanding of youth participants

Guiding Question: Who are the youth who are coming to my program? What are their needs?

Workshop ThreeGoal: To introduce participants to principles of connected learning and progressive pedagogy

Guiding Question: What are principles of connected learning and progressive pedagogy and how can they inform and enhance my programming?

Workshop Four

Goal: Participants will design an assessment plan for their programs

Guiding Questions: Why is my program structured the way it is? How can principles from these workshops inform my work? How will I know?

Findings

● In examining the nature of ‘significant learning experiences’ we discovered that they involved not only peers but also adults.

● We are considering expanding the concept of ‘peer learning’ to ‘social organization of learning’ thereby including adults and peers.

● Also, considering expanding the ‘academically oriented’ sphere to include civic and career engagement.

● Many of the participants’ programs already incorporating connected learning elements.

● We will continue to work with connected learning elements as a basis for program design and evaluation.

TRAINING

POEMOBILE

BRYANT PARK

MARCUS

GARVEY

PARK >

< JACKSON HEIGHTS

TREASURE

& BOND