PARTICIPATORY LEARNING
Project Type: Participatory Culture & Learning
Role: Research Director @ USC Annenberg Innovation Lab / Children, Youth & Media Research-Design Track "PLAY! (Participatory Learning and You)"
PLAY (Participatory Learning and YOU!) is authored by Erin Reilly, Vanessa Vartabedian, Laurel Felt, and Henry Jenkins. It is an exploration of insights gained from our year-long work with elementary and secondary teachers from the Los Angeles Unified School District as they sought to develop a more participatory environment in their classroom. |
Curriculum
Summer Sandbox
Curriculum
The Summer Sandbox Professional Development invites LAUSD educators grades 6-12 to explore participatory learning techniques in a collaborative, exploratory setting. Teachers will work together to embed the new media literacies into their curriculum, and design learning experiences that foster:
ELED: Explore Locally, Excel Digitally
Curriculum
Explore Locally, Excel Digitally (ELED) After-School Program is a 15-week series of workshops for high-school students passionate about creating and learning using media tools and popular culture in relationship to their own lives. Each session will be highly participatory, utilizing the skills and competencies of the New Media Literacies and Social and Emotional Learning. Opportunities to practice these skills will emerge organically through the activities presented each day. Participants master the primary components of digital citizenship –social and emotional competence, community awareness, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and ethical appreciation – by mapping their own communities, considering ethical issues relating to these spaces, and harnessing digital media to enrich and express their findings. Key civic engagement principles such as reciprocity and co-configured learning also figured prominently in the program. The development of individual digital portfolios will exemplify and ultimately assess students' understanding of these skills and practices.
For more information about ELED, click here.
Curriculum
The Summer Sandbox Professional Development invites LAUSD educators grades 6-12 to explore participatory learning techniques in a collaborative, exploratory setting. Teachers will work together to embed the new media literacies into their curriculum, and design learning experiences that foster:
- heightened motivation and new forms of engagement through meaningful play and experimentation;
- a sense of relevance to students' identities and interests;
- opportunities for creating and solving problems using a variety media, tools and practices;
- co-configured expertise where educators and students pool their skills and knowledge and share in the tasks of teaching and learning; and
- an integrated learning system where connections between home, school, community and world are encouraged.
ELED: Explore Locally, Excel Digitally
Curriculum
Explore Locally, Excel Digitally (ELED) After-School Program is a 15-week series of workshops for high-school students passionate about creating and learning using media tools and popular culture in relationship to their own lives. Each session will be highly participatory, utilizing the skills and competencies of the New Media Literacies and Social and Emotional Learning. Opportunities to practice these skills will emerge organically through the activities presented each day. Participants master the primary components of digital citizenship –social and emotional competence, community awareness, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and ethical appreciation – by mapping their own communities, considering ethical issues relating to these spaces, and harnessing digital media to enrich and express their findings. Key civic engagement principles such as reciprocity and co-configured learning also figured prominently in the program. The development of individual digital portfolios will exemplify and ultimately assess students' understanding of these skills and practices.
For more information about ELED, click here.
Presentations
INNOVATION SUMMIT: Experiments in Participatory Cultures
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Designing with Teachers: Participatory Approaches
Edited by Erin Reilly and Ioana Literat, this publication represents the collaboration of a working group composed of “a mixture of researchers, teachers and school administrators from a variety of disciplines, schools, and states,” who wanted to better understand how we might best prepare educators in order to incorporate “participatory learning” models into their classroom practices. |
Shall we Play?
It represents a revisiting of Henry Jenkins' original MacArthur white paper, Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture, and lays out what we see as core principles for participatory learning. It includes some core reflections on what has happened in the Digital Media and Learning movement over the past six years as we have sought to bring a more participatory spirit to those institutions and practices that most directly touch young people’s lives. |
