Doing Online Relearning through Information Skills (DORIS): Contributions for information literacy programs
Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo
@judamasmasPhD studentInstitute of Information StudiesTallinn University
Snapshots
What is it about?
Integration of social media into higher education and the roles that information, digital and new literacies play
How?
Planning a series of learning activities for engaging participants
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Where does this come from?
Curiosity from MA thesis about the uses of social media for ‘serious’ purposes: education or organizational?
A return to my main area of interest: information literacy and learning.
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What is it for?
Librarians and related professionals mainly
To enrich information literacy programs, by providing:
A methodological/research framework
Insights for developing formal structures
Investigating pedagogical implications
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Constructivist learning (Piaget/Dewey/Vygotsky)
3 dimensions of learning: cognitive, social, emotional (Illeris, 2003)
Information skills: access, use, evaluation (Lau, 2006)
Affinity Spaces (Gee, 2009)
Participatory Action Research in Education (Freire, Fals-Borda, Whitehead & McNiff, McIntyre, Herr & Anderson)
Core Theories@judamasmas
The concepts of learning and knowledge are closely connected
Knowledge is created through socialization (Vygotsky, 1978; Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995) and can be discovered (Whitehead & McNiff, 2006) as people possess tacit knowledge within (Polanyi, 1958).
Teachers are capable of generating personal theories by systematically studying their practice (Whitehead, 1989)
Epistemological Assumptions
“We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves” Galileo Galilei
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Research Questions
What significant issues, challenges and opportunities emerge when social media are integrated into learning environments in higher education?
a) How do students’ experience learning when they are engaged in a learning activity that integrates social media?
b) In what ways is students’ engagement dependent upon their literacies?
c) In what way do learning, literacy and social media mutually shape each other?
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The Issues of Social Media
Trust
Loss of identity
Crowdsourcing
Decision making
Quality control
Users’ satisfaction
Information overload
Permanence
Repackaging
Privacy
Negative consequences
Emerging issues Machin-Mastromatteo (2012)
Balance of identities/voices/roles
Fast changing features
Need for marketing SN tools
Users’ underestimation
Machin-Mastromatteo (2010, 2011, 2012), built upon Bawden & Robinson (2009)
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The Concept(s) of Literacies
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Digital
Literacy
New Literacies
LITERACIES
Literacies Information Literacy as in Zurkowski (1974), Virkus (2003), Tuominen, et al.(2005), Lau (2006)…
Digital Literacy (computer, ICT…) as in Shapiro and Hughes, 1996; Lankshear y Knobel, 2006.
New Literacies as in Lankshear and Knobel (2007)
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Self and collective reflection on the subject of study
Researcher is part of and makes interventions on research
Cyclical process of exploration, knowledge construction and action through questioning, reflecting, investigating, developing plan implementing, refining, questioning… (McIntyre, 2008)
PAR is a philosophy of life as much as a method, a sentiment as much as a conviction (Fals-Borda, 1997)
PAR leads researchers into unfamiliar pathways… think in new ways… generating provocative new ideas. (Whyte, Greenwood, & Lazes, 1989)
Participatory Action Research (PAR)
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Participants
LIS Master
Divided in groups
Pilot Study (2011), Final Study (2012)
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Diagnostic Questionnaire
Blog
Social Learners’ Input
Class Discussions
Social Media Sites
Social Learners’ Reports
2nd Questionnaire
Interview
Collection of Data
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Stages of Research / Assignments
Assignments:
Individual reflection on own use of SM (2)
Create social site for an information service (3)
Evaluate an established social site (4), revisit (3)
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Example of Instructional Design@judamasmas
Data Analysis
The theory of affinity spaces:
On the function of its content
On the function of how people interact with the content and/or with one another
The three dimensions of learning: cognitive, social, emotional.
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Data Analysis (cont.) A look at some of the challenges and opportunities of
using SM in higher education instruction related to the social learners’ literacies
A look at the most useful activities for learning, within this study
The topics social learners learned about throughout the activities of this study.
Insights into the mutual shaping phenomenon between SM, the learning experience and social learners’ literacies.
Social learners’ reflections on their practice based on the learning dissonance created by the order of the assignments.
The researcher/practitioner’s reflections on his practices between the two studies conducted within this research.
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