Social network site participation enables design learning that breaks the confines of space and time, including pre-enrollment learning and asynchronous ethical discussion¶
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q2 i? Designerly talk in SNS groups broke temporal bounds (learning before formal enrollment) and spatial bounds (asynchronous extended discussion among students, PhD students, and practitioners). → Gray 2014
Evidence¶
Gray 2014¶
Gray, C. M., & Howard, C. D. (2014). Designerly talk in non-pedagogical social spaces. Journal of Learning Design, 7(1), 40-58. https://doi.org/10.5204/jld.v7i1.153
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Analysis of two exemplar threads. The Selecting Professional Tools thread showed an incoming student seeking camera advice in April before beginning classes in August. The Being an Ethical Designer thread lasted five days with 27 comments among Master's students, PhD students, and practitioners.
"The first and fourth examples offered in this paper, namely, Selecting Professional Tools and Being an Ethical Designer threads, revealed opportunities for designerly talk that broke the confines of space and time."
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Related Claims¶
- Four types of designerly talk manifest in student-managed social network spaces: tool selection, professional identity, skill-sharing coordination, and ethical design discussion — related
- Student-created Facebook groups support self-directed design learning and sharing of expertise outside the formal curriculum — a broader claim this one bears on
- Student-generated Facebook groups constitute a hidden curriculum that supports learning outside the formal design studio — related
- Students transition between student and proto-professional roles in informal SNS discourse, bridging learning and design practice — related
- Longer Facebook threads with more interlocutors show distinct structural characteristics compared to the broader corpus — related
- Facebook is used in myriad ways as an educational instrument for learning and teaching in higher education — a broader claim this one bears on
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Social network site participation enables design learning that breaks the confines of space and time, including pre-enrollment learning and asynchronous ethical discussion |
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Social network site participation enables design learning that breaks the confines of space and time, including pre-enrollment learning and asynchronous ethical discussion |
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