At the #EdMedia Conference last week I was lucky enough to be at three sessions presented by Jeni Henrickson from the University of Minnesota, USA. She presented on behalf of Aaron Doering, Charles Miller and Cassie Scharber as well.
This is the video from Aaron’s TED talk:
Sorry -can’t seem to embed the video today, here’s the link: http://youtu.be/hfrIUoGqxfw
I used the video in my discussion post last week.
What Jeni introduced me to was the concept of, “adventure learning”. It means that students can learn from around the world by following on “adventures” of others. Technology is used to support the communication between students and educators to help everyone learn and explore together.
What appealed to me most was the evidence of learning from primary sources in first nations communities.
We learned about the following projects which can be found on the LT Media Lab’s Homepage: http://lt.umn.edu/
and in this video from a talk Aaron Goering did last month:
I am now reviewing the two papers that appealed to me most:
Designing for Learning Engagement in Remote Communities Worldwide
and
Toward User-Driven Adventure Learning: Combining Inquiry-Based Adventure with Technology-Enhanced Learning
This week I plan on writing up notes to share with others and review the possible options that this group has already created.
Verena 🙂