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Youth, heritage, and digital learning ecologies

Youth, heritage, and digital learning ecologies. Creating engaging spaces for young people. Ashley Shaw ashleygshaw@ gmail.com Don Krug don.krug@ubc.ca Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia.

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Youth, heritage, and digital learning ecologies

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  1. Youth, heritage, and digital learning ecologies Creating engaging spaces for young people Ashley Shaw ashleygshaw@gmail.com Don Krug don.krug@ubc.ca Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia

  2. Goal:To engage fifteen to twenty-five year olds in dialogue and creative engagement with concepts of identity, culture, heritage, and genealogy Context

  3. Research Objectives Identify characteristics of 15-25 year old Canadians. Identify patterns of online behaviour and participation of this demographic. Identify effective modes of online learning for this demographic, particularly in reference to culture, identity, heritage, and genealogy. Identify characteristics of existing online museum spaces and other communities of interest. Identify characteristics of effective and popular online resources.

  4. Characteristics • Variety of life choices • Ethnically and racially diverse • Expressive • Educated • Value meaningful work • Optimistic and goal oriented • Traditional • Culturally and civically engaged • Connected

  5. Online behaviours • 95% have internet access • 74% have mobile access • 8 hours/day engaged with media, but consume 11 hours of content • 83% on social networking sites • Keep in touch • Find information • Technologically confident • Consumers more than creators • High expectations of information

  6. Online Learning Informal Learning • Knowledge is socially constructed: participatory cultures • Knowledge is ever changing: perpetual beta Potentially useful concepts: • Digital learning ecologies • Game and play based learning

  7. Social Media and Networking • Social, participatory, collaborative: networked learning • Relationships, communication, interaction: relational agency • Potentially useful concepts: • Engagement • Funds of living knowledge

  8. Identity Exploration • Internet as a space for identity exploration: writing one’s self into being • Dialogic engagement with audience(s): performance of self Potentially useful concepts: • Acculturation • Hybrid performativity

  9. Currently… • Virtual Exhibitions currently found in Canadian Museums: • Designed as entry point • Targeted ‘For Families’ or ‘Teacher Zone’ • Static content: searchable collections, links, podcasts, games • Unclear navigation

  10. Effective online museum spaces • Destination/experience • Creating community online through social media • Website as a platform (for curators/artists/scientists/commuity/bloggers) • Website as aggregator/curator • Website as portal: virtual exhibitions

  11. Characteristics of effective on-line spaces • Organic • Co-developed • Customisable • Evolving • Self-directed • Inquiry based • Hybrid spaces • Evaluative • Useable • Attractive and engaging • Clear guidance and navigation • Participatory • Interactive • Collaborative

  12. Conclusions/Recommendations • Participatory, social, collaborative. • Information on a wide variety of cultures, ethnicities, identities. • Open and engaging content. • Organic, evolving, customisable.

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