Playgrids as New Media Configurations for Learning Across Space, Time, and Scale

• In Event: 66.057 - Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: 66.057-9 - Exploring Time, Place, and Space With Digital Media

Abstract

This paper analyzes how learning environments, saturated with varied arrangements of social media, enabled learners to fluidly and playfully mobilize digital resources to meet their needs. Through case studies we examine how two platforms - Slack and Hypothesis - enabled learners to curate and participate among their own digital resources and pathways for learning. To describe this form of learner-generated curation, we offer new interpretations of learning by illustrating the production of playgrids, or contingent arrangements of distributed resources that afford participation in shared activity across space, time, and scale. We contend that usefully connects less formal social media practice with more formal learning across various settings and scales.

Authors

• Jeremiah Holden Kalir, University of Colorado - Denver

• Ty Hollett, The Pennsylvania State University