education

The uses of multimedia: three digital literacy case studies

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:17:46 +1100

We identify some tensions between formal education and informal learning in the uses of popular literacy since the nineteenth century, in order to argue for a ‘demand-led’ model of education in digital literacy.

New Learning Lab

Media International Australia: Digital literacies special issue

alawrence — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:47:44 +1000

This issue of Media International Australia is based on several of the papers presented at the Digital Literacy and Creative Innovation in a Knowledge Economy symposium held by CCI and the ARC Cultural Research Network in March 2007. Guest edited by CCI researchers Kelly McWilliam and John Hartley, along with Mark Gibson, the articles in this issue consider how the rapid development of digital technologies has changed the production and consumption of media content, altering the very nature of the relationship between 'producers' and 'consumers'.

New Learning Lab

No longer tuned in to master's voice

alawrence — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:51:40 +1000

Online digital environments are inviting all of us to reject the role of spectatorship and to participate actively in our own learning write Erica McWilliam and Norman Jackson

New Learning Lab

Creativity's crossing forces: a danced interplay

alawrence — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:20:29 +1000

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This paper examines various perspectives on creativity fuelled by a current collaborative research project, Dancing Between Diversity and Consistency: Refining Assessment in Post Graduate Studies in Dance, in an attempt to arrive at some position on the value of creativity and critical reflection from the point of view of artistic practitioners within academic parameters.

New Learning Lab

Aligning curriculum, pedagogy and assessment for building creative capacity in undergraduate students: a case study from the con

alawrence — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:14:03 +1000

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Teaching-for-creativity is "rarely an explicit objective of the learning and assessment process" (Jackson, 2006, p.4). In Europe, collaborative research projects have been recently set up to address this lack of acknowledgment or explicitness. Australian universities lag behind in this respect. However, Australian HEIs are now showing increasing commitment to creative capacity building as an outcome of undergraduate teaching.

New Learning Lab

Making music together: The blending of an on-line learning environment for music artistic practice

alawrence — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:04:52 +1000

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Music curricula have become increasingly systematised in universities. This means that students may be segregated into class groupings that do not naturally support active participation in knowledge sharing, networking, moving between expert groups, socialisation and professional success. This may result in students graduating still unprepared for professional workplaces.

New Learning Lab

The creative application of knowledge in university education: a case study

alawrence — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:54:52 +1000

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Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Monitoring student creative capacity: using network visualisation to evaluate pedagogical practice

alawrence — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:47:37 +1000

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This paper explores how research in the fields of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Business can be applied to monitoring the development of student creative capacity.

New Learning Lab

Cognitive playfulness, creative capacity and generation ‘C’ learners

alawrence — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:58:50 +1000

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New Learning Lab

Repurposing literacy: The uses of Richard Hoggart for creative education

alawrence — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:51:44 +1000

After 50 years, what are the implications of Uses of Literacy for educational modernisation, in the light of subsequent changes from 'read only' literacy to 'read-write' uses of multimedia?

The Uses of Multimedia