Living, learning and working on the web: developing a new habitus

Living, learning and working on the

web: developing a new habitus

PLE

Personal Learning Environment

What’s mine!

Away from the institution

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Just

Tools

&

ownership!

A start

Any technology tends to

create a new human

environment...

Technological environments

are not merely passive

containers of people but are

active processes that

reshape people and other

technologies alike.

M. Mcluhan, 1962

Learning Tailored to & by me

Identification

“(…) transforming transfers of

information into a ‘real act of

knowing” (Paulo Freire)

What are

real acts of knowing

“…unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.

Most people learn best by being "with it".”

~ Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

50 years on…

The tools arrive

A new Logic of Practice starts to

emerge…

As new

technologies

are

embedded

in day to day

activities

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86251769@N00/438190053

Technology

become a way

of life!


A new set of values and different

activities

Represent what we Do

and who we Are

The beginning of a new Habitus

(that needs to be nurtured; not ignored)

How we do things

around here

historical continuum

Dispositions

Technology…

disrupts the historical continuum

How we do

things

around here

How they do

things

around here

Digital Habitus specific set of

values

transparency

Distinction

Embodied capital cultural:

values

beliefs

principles

“To possess the machines, [they] only need economic

capital; to appropriate them and use them in accordance

with their specific purpose [they] must have access to

embodied cultural capital, either in person or by

proxy”

Pierre Bourdieu

Habitus + embodied Cultural Capital

A tool to reflect on our practices

and those of our students

What digital habitus do

educators bring to the

classroom

How are these

habitus connected

with those of the

students?

How does that affect their sense of

identification with the institution?

What does that mean to education

as a meaningful activity?

Field of participation

(democratic???)

Congregation of eclectic social

capital

Development of new dispositions

Embodiment of new cultural

capital & Habitus

Field of power (highly regulated)

Recruitment of homogeneous

(?) social capital

Maintenance of dispositions that match the field

Preservation of the field’s cultural

capital and habitus

Field of Personalisation of

learning

Congregation of heterogeneous social capital

Cultivating new dispositions

Providing cultural capital and habitus

Teacher preparation should go

beyond the technical preparation of

teachers and be rooted in the ethical

formation both of selves and of

history. ~ Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of

Freedom

HE not a provider of content; but

rather a source of cultural capital.

Learners as creators

Educators and Administrators

as enablers

Personal(isation of)

learning is a Mindset!

Digital Media

the tool that can materialise it

Need to

engage in

critical

debates!

Go beyond the mechanical

understanding of tools…

Technology

is

here to

stay

We

are all

using

it











Understanding Digital Habitus

online experiences and the values

developed therein

Our contribution

Takes different forms

End the digital dissonance

Move

learning

beyond

the

classroom



Understanding the social

aspects of learning, living and

working in the current society


Being part of it!


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