Engagement within interest-driven learning environments

Abstract

This paper develops a theory of short term, shared engagement accompanied by a spatial notation system in open ended, interest driven learning environments to support, extend and assess interest-driven and connected learning (Ito et al., 2009; Crowley & Barron, 2014) across everyday, informal and formal boundaries. It simultaneously introduces the notion of personal curation, broadly defined as the ability to capture, edit and share information with personal information devices, to describe emerging socio-technical practices that expand the possibilities of interest-driven, connected learning. The empirical basis and setting of this research is a two year ethnographic study to understand how..