Emergent pedagogies and digital technologies are allowing a re-examination of our approaches to learning and teaching. This session will explore some elements of the groundbreaking DS106 digital storytelling course from the University of Mary Washington, since replicated at a number of other institutions. The course enrols registered students and open participants; it has a focus on active, open and peer learning; and assessment is small, frequent and often community generated. Related outcomes from developing the course have been Wordpress aggregation tools, the Domain Of Ones Own project and a global Community radio station.
In this session, Alan Levine and Nigel Robertson will explore some aspects of what DS106 is and why it is important to consider the approaches taken when considering participatory and digital opportunities for learning.
One history http://ds106.us/history
Brian Bennet interview http://edreach.us/podcast/chalkstar-to-rockstar-05-ds106-is-the-5th-dimension-of-teaching-and-learning/
UMW Students Explain ds106 http://ds106.us/2013/04/29/umw-students-explain-ds106/
Uptake from other places
Community participation
Overlapping network design http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/ds106/
(Highly) Activity based
Student defined (partly)
Failing in public (aka futzing)
Not teaching software
No lectures, no textbooks. See Spring 2013 Course syllabus http://ds106.us/2013/01/03/umw-spring-2013-syllabus/
Assignment bank http://assignments.ds106.us/
Remix Machine http://remix.ds106.us/
The Daily Create http://tdc.ds106.us/
inSPIRE http://inpsire.ds106.us/
Differences between registered students / open participants
Multiple, frequent and small
Community generated
How to blog like a champ http://ds106.us/handbook/success-the-ds106-way/writing-up-assignments/
How to succeed as a UMW Student http://ds106.us/handbook/success-the-ds106-way/umw-students/
How can you assess Art?
What is actually being assessed? - metacognition, connections
For open participants- feedback. riffing
Advice from Previous Students (end of term assignment) http://ds106.us/handbook/success-the-ds106-way/advice/
Community support
Broader exposure - richer set of examples
Unexpected - silent movie trailer gone tabloid http://www.techsavvyed.net/archives/2411
Student graphic - exposure via a reddit listing brought so much traffic it took his webhosting server down
DS106 was a winner at the Reclaim Open Contest from MacArthur Foundation Digital Media Hub http://dmlhub.net/reclaim-open-learning-symposium
Sharing
Experts as peers
DS106radio - ds106rad.io/listen
Originally a place for audio assignments to be broadcast, it became a Global Community Radio station with live coverage of the 2011 Japanese earthquake, celebrations of birthdays, graduations, family events as well as solidarity during significant family loss. Facilitated through Twitter #ds106radio https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ds106radio
Domain of Ones Own - personal cyberinfrastructure
Reclaim Hosting http://reclaimhosting.com/
https://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/teaching-a-domain-of-ones-own-with-reclaim-hosting
Wordpress aggregation - pull information from multiple sources into one Wordpress site. Turns the LMS inside out! Built on opensource platform- anyone can do it e.g. Mike Caulfield’s Water106 project http://water106.net/ or the Art & Reconciliation Course http://rmooc.ca/