Learning through Situated Production in New Media Ecologies

Learning through Critical Making

In this video, we take Laura Pinto’s theorization of critical making and apply it to digital – and very social – spaces where all varieties of informal making and sharing and collaborative learning is going on. In this video presentation, we explore the following questions:

Affordances of Equality: What and how do people learn through self-directed inquiry and creative production? How do the affordances of new media support creative capacity and enable anyone perform/enact complex multimodal literacies? And what can we learn from these ‘unauthorized’ social actors who are just doing it: creating and making and sharing sophisticated cultural products? And how might these young people help us re/think literacy and learning for the 21st Century?

K. Thumlert, York University, Faculty of Education

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