Let's Hack School: Learner Agency in a Time of New Technologies

let’s hack school:

Contemporary Literacies in Civic Life 2015 CSU Writing Project Speaker Series

learner agency in a time of new technologies

Bud Hunthttp://budhunt.com/

tl:dr

agency

playhackmake

interfaceplatform

school and civic life

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

~John Dewey

what kind of society do you have in mind?

what kind of school do you have in mind?

We have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say, ‘cause if you’re not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

~Ani DiFranco “What If No One’s Watching”

systems and structures

We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

~Marshall McLuhan

digital learning collaborative

http://blogs.stvrain.k12.co.us/dlc

http://blogs.stvrain.k12.co.us/dlc

http://blogs.stvrain.k12.co.us/dlc

agency?

lenses for learning

make hack play

make /meɪk/ v 1: give certain properties to something; 2: cause to be or to become; to compose or represent; 3: perform or carry out see also: create

http://webmaker.org

http://makered.org

STEM

STEAM

STREAM

school

not about the circuits

not about the code

things are made by people

people make things

hack /hak/ n 1: An improvement to a system or program; v 1: To improve a system see also: tinker

open vs. closed

online vs. offline

sharks vs. jets

us vs. them

digital vs. analog

vs.

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let’s think in analog

systems

structures

methods

values

platform

•environment

•constraints

•facilities

interface

•shared boundary where 2 parties exchange

information

•one-way

•two-way

interfaceplatform

play /pleɪ   n 1:  a state in which action is feasible; 2: the removal of constraints; 3: movement or space for movement see also: engage

agency

make hack play

what are the constraints you face?

how might you fiddle or create your way through or

around them?

how is school a platform?

what should school interfaces look like?

how are you going to make school better?

Bud Hunt Instructional Technology Coordinator

St. Vrain Valley School District@budtheteacher

[email protected]://budtheteacher.com

let’s hack school