Special issue on New Media, New Literacies and New Forms of Learning
International Journal of Learning and Media
Expected publication May 2014

Look for more details coming soon ….

Workshop on New Media, New Literacies, and New Forms of Learning

December 15, 2011

Sponsors: The University of British Columbia, GRAND Centre of Excellence, The Institute of Education
Organizers: Caroline Haythornthwaite (UBC), Richard Andrews (IoE), Robin Goodfellow (Open U.), Mary Hamilton (Lancaster)

Session 2: Mobility and Literacy

Session 3: Emerging Trends

Session 4: Trend Watching

New Literacy Themes.

1. Literacies and Discourses. Widening our understanding of literacy to respond to multi-modal communication and rapid changes in media, modes and communication.

2. Co-evolution of literacy and technology. Widening our understanding of socio-technical processes to address ideas of technology-enhanced learning and examination of emergent, perhaps unexpected configurations of learning, context and technology.

3. Expansive Learning. Widening our understanding of learning production to include new and emergent knowledge and identities, and our understanding of roles in learning production.

4. Mobility and Ubiquity. Widening our understanding of the implications and impacts of learning in different sites and sectors, and how these combine as a whole to promote literacy in a knowledge society engaged in ubiquitous learning.

5. Analytics. Widening the feedback, evaluation and assessment of learning and learning processes by defining, validating and creating infrastructures for enhanced data collection and presentation.

Analytics to Literacies: Emergent Learning Analytics to evaluate new literacies. Shane Dawson.
[please correspond with author for a copy of this paper]

On the periphery? The social and educational implications for those who are not savvy Internet users. Rebecca Eynon.

Assembling Texts in the Digital University. Jude Fransman.

Cyborg literacies and the posthuman text. Lesley Gourlay.

Smart learning with mobile devices? Agnes Kukulska-Hulme.

A Comment on Learning: Media Literacy Practices in YouTube. Eric M. Meyers.

What is happening to literacy? Norbert Pachler.

(Season’s) Greetings, everyone!

Today, I’m posting the first batch of position papers that have been submitted for our workshop this month. These are all initial drafts, intended to give us a general idea of our colleagues’ work in advance of the meeting — this is to say, do read them, but don’t treat these as final versions.

For those of you who don’t see your paper below, please be in touch with me if you haven’t already. If you’re going to be a bit late with your contribution, that’s OK, although it’d be very helpful to have an idea of the title or general subject by the start of next week.

Without further ado:

Computer-Aided Argument Mapping: An Educational Revolution? Martin Davies.

In with the in crowds. Jon Dron and Terry Anderson.

Rethinking literacies, learning and research methodology around archaeology in a virtual world. Julia Gillen.

The Academy and the Digital: Knowledge, practices, devices. Robin Goodfellow and Chris Jones.

Digital literacies: competing discourses and practices in higher education. Mary R. Lea.

Cognitive tools for epistemic engineering. Rosemary Luckin.

Identity and Context – The Reader and the Read. John Traxler.

Greetings!

Our workshop is now only two weeks away — and I imagine it’s helpful to know where and when it’s taking place. Without further ado:

We’ll be meeting at the London Knowledge Lab, nearby the IoE in Bloomsbury. Directions and a map are available from here; the address is as follows:

London Knowledge Lab
23-29 Emerald Street
London WC1N 3QS
Tel: (0)20 7763 2137

We’ve booked both of the seminar rooms on the ground floor (they’re not numbered). We’ll be primarily using the larger one, though the smaller one will be available, should we need it. The receptionist is aware of the event and will direct people to the rooms. We’ve confirmed both WiFi and projection capabilities.

The working schedule for Thursday’s meeting is below. Although the brunt of the day’s activities will be taking place from 10am – 4:30pm, the room will be available from 9:30 for coffee and conversation.

9:30-10:00: Coffee & Registration
10:00-10:15: Opening Remarks
10:15-11:30: First Session (x3 Presentations)
11:30-11:45: Tea / Spillover time
11:45-1:00: Second Session (x3 Presentations)
1:00-2:00: Lunch
2:00-3:15: Third Session (x3 Presentations)
3:15-3:30: Tea / Spillover time
3:30-4:30: Plenary