Learning ecologies – visualisations

Concerns can be of many kinds - both active and reactive, vague or specific. Sometimes we are concerned about our own practices, wishing to change them, or defending them against change. People reflect upon their concerns in some quite different ways. That effects how they get transformed into projects, and how they reflect practices.

Projects are changes or productions that we care about and work on over time to achieve a more or less well-defined outcome. They often create or revolve around some definite artifact of a well known genre (e.g. a thesis). Sometimes they might concern the creation of a more substantial and less easily contained change (e.g. "a new me"). Projects may be explicitly about changing practices (our own or those of others). Projects can be co-productions. An organised even is a project - for example, a seminar is a co-production.

Projects can be formed and structured by the individual with relative autonomy, or follow a pattern defined institutionally, or they might be a compromise (negotiated or otherwise).

Practices may be habitual or exceptional, procedural or innovative. We have meta-practices that allow us to reflect upon, evaluate, choose and change our practices. Knowing is itself a practice. Technologies are artifacts that are designed to work within practices (their affordances and constraints), to achieve projects that satisfy concerns. "Technology is society made durable" (Latour, 2000)

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Robert O'Toole : 20 Jul 2011 13:45 |  Tags: Ideation |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem