Connected Learning: Building on the Basics
12We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew (http://soulbiographies.com) to make a series of films about connected learning, a new approach to learning he called "courageous" and "transformational."
This film examines how creativity, shunned in the industrial age approach to schooling, is essential to learners in a networked society and a critical element of connected learning.
Guided by six learning principles and three core values, connected learning is the outcome of a six-year research effort supported by the MacArthur Foundation into how learning, education, and schooling could be reimagined for a networked world.
The film asks:
- 'In this rapidly changing world might creativity need to sit at the heart of an education for all?'
- 'Might education now need to embrace these new forms of literacy for all students?'
- 'Might our future call for creative, literate, self expressive and resourceful students?'
The interview subject is DePaul University associate professor Nichole Pinkard, founder of Chicago's pioneering Digital Youth Network (http://digitalyouthnetwork.org), supported by the MacArthur Foundation as part of its Digital Media and Learning initiative (http://macfound.org/programs/learning).
Other films in the connected learning series:
'Essence' http://youtu.be/zFdzz26g-EE
'Engaged' http://youtu.be/fJWtvFIr0FQ
'Mentor' http://youtu.be/jNcet150S5A
'Play' http://youtu.be/t9xyrAsCe0M
'Everyone' http://youtu.be/viHbdTC8a90
* To participate in weekly webinars and be a part of an emerging community around connected learning, visit: http://connectedlearning.tv
* To learn more about ongoing research into connected learning, check out: http://clrn.dmlhub.net
* To see and share an infographic about connected learning: http://connectedlearning.tv/infographic
* To find out more about the six principles and three guiding values of connected learning: http://connectedlearning.tv/connected-learning-principles
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