Tabitha,<div><br></div><div>thanks a lot for sharing this link.</div><div><br></div><div>After a quick glance this looks like a very interesting paper, hopefully I'll find some time over the weekend to read it in-depth.</div>
<div><br>Cheers,</div><div>Christoph<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Tabitha Roder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tabitha@tabitha.net.nz">tabitha@tabitha.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone<br><br>Not so new, and not about a deployment exactly, but it maybe an interesting and different article for people to read. <br>
<br>Presented at Ascilite 2010, you can find the conference proceedings here - <a href="http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/proceedings.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/proceedings.htm</a> - and my paper here - <a href="http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/procs/Roder-concise.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/procs/Roder-concise.pdf</a><br>
<br>Here is the abstract so you can decide if you want to read it:<br><p style="margin-left:1cm;margin-right:1cm;margin-bottom:0cm" lang="en-NZ">
<font>Within the theme of “Curriculum, technology and
transformation for an unknown future” it seems appropriate to
present an image of seeing and doing things differently that comes
from outside of formal education. The context for this story comes
from working as part of the NGO one laptop per child (olpc) community
in New Zealand. The impact of the global olpc movement has been
widely accepted as transformative in its mission to enable children’s
agency in learning and participation in knowledge building
communities. It is a vision that frames future learning within highly
fluid and unstable spaces. In this paper the focus will be on a local
community network that supports this project. Members of the NZ olpc
volunteer community largely learn through informal means. Their
learning spaces are both physical and virtual. They are spread across
New Zealand and are connected to diverse global networks, where they
can access “mentors” and co-learners using Web 2.0 internet based
technologies. </font>
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<p style="margin-left:1cm;margin-right:1cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><font><span lang="en-NZ">Using
narrative inquiry </span></font><font color="#000000"><font><span lang="en-NZ">(</span></font></font><font><span lang="en-NZ">Clandinin
and Connelly, 2000) we invite readers to draw parallels between the
community of practice described, with its rich experiential and
informal learning features, to pedagogical possibilities for formal
tertiary settings. Roles for teachers and learners are examined with
particular emphasis paid to the learner as maker and designer in both
the lived physical reality and in the constructivist sense of
meaning-making. This raises questions about the nature of knowledge
and its relationship to pedagogy.</span></font><font color="#000000"><font><span lang="en-NZ"><i>
</i></span></font></font><font><span lang="en-NZ">In addition
the recount draws attention to sociocultural and co-constructed
dimensions, where learning is distributed across the community and
knowledge is seen as stretched across the activities and members of
the community (Scardemalia, 2004).</span></font></p>
<br>I am on this mailing list so as I can keep up with who is doing research on what related to OLPC and hope that one day I can do a bit of research that contributes further to the research already done or being done. I am relatively new to research and my day job is Academic Development in a tertiary institution in New Zealand. I am particularly involved in Moodle as I am an elearning specialist. My involvement with OLPC (for those who choose not to read the paper) is as a volunteer tester since mid 2008. <br>
<br clear="all">Kind regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Tabitha Roder<br>eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer<br>Cell <a href="tel:%2B64%2021%20482229" value="+6421482229" target="_blank">+64 21 482229</a><br>
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Winner: NZ Open Source Contributor Award 2010<br><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<div><br></div><div><div>volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [<a href="http://www.olpc.at/" target="_blank">www.olpc.at</a>]<br><div>editor, OLPC News [<a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a>]<br>
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