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SoMobNet roundtable, London, 21 Nov. 2011http://www.somobnet.eu/roundtable/
The Interweaved Fabrics of Reality
Making sense of material, social and intentional space, patterned practices, and the implications for m-learning design
Yishay Mor, IET, Open University
Merchant / Crook (this morning)
Schooling = participation in a set of patterned practices (not necessarily about effective learning)
Do we need to burn down schools to change this set? (campsmount)
(techno-pedagogical) Design…Christopher Alexander: “The process of inventing physical things
which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function” (1964, p.1).
Middleton et al.: “a subtle but complex interaction between the designer and contextual constraints … proposing the form of an artifact, system or process, which in turn drives its behaviour, which in turn can be compared with its desired function” (2008, p. 22).
Herbert Simon: “everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into desired ones” (1969, p 129).
Design…
Devise artefacts through which we can act on reality in desirable ways.
- Contextualised- Functional- Reality: as we understand it. Ideas, not atoms.
Making sense of reality
Bruner (1991): we create and share meanings by constructing narratives from our experiences.
Narrative = • Context• Protagonist(s)• Sequence of events. – temporal links suggesting causality
• Implicit moral
HomeBedroom Bed
Clock
Corridor
Kids’ roomStairs
Kitchen
Bread machine
Me
Wife Son
Daughter
Friends
FootballTeam
School
Work
Work
Friends
Colleagues
Colleagues
Friends
Me
WifeSon
Get to SchoolOn time
Get to WorkOn time
MakeSandwiches
PrepareTalk
Material
Social
Intentional
Culture?
• School uniform• School schedules• Work schedules• Packed lunch
Culture?
Me
WifeSon
Born in IsraelRaised in
Israel
IndependentSchool (UK)
Living inThe UK
Raised inUKVoluntary aided
School (Israel)
Bread Maker
iPod, games,Jay Z
CDs, books,Tinariwen
Tie & Blazer
Google: “how to tie a tie”
Patterned Practices
Roepstorff et al: “human group life orders itself into specific and semi-stable patterns of interaction, i.e. practices. Practices are shaped by material conditions, social dynamics and normative orders” (2010, pp 1057)
• A response to the problematic of “Culture”
→ Shape our mind and body through embodiment, internalisation, narratisation
← Reshape the environment – physical and social – in which we operate.
Patterned practices
SonAlarm rings, crawl to the shower, dress (minus tie+blazer), get some breakfast, pack bag
(books, sports kit, lunch), put on tie and blazer, run for the bus
• Morning shower, breakfast + iPod game, school dress code, school bag
MeHear shower, remove bread from bread machine,
• Bread making, breakfast + newspaper, morning shower, office dress code, commuter bag
Learning?
→ Shape our mind and body through embodiment, internalisation, narratisation
← Reshape the environment – physical and social – in which we operate.
Roepstorff et al (2010) examples – • phoneme “blindness” caused by mother tongue / script.• Musicians’ mismatch-negativity response to deviations
in rhythmic structure• Variations in ultimatum game in small-scale societies.
Social-Mobile?
Material
IntentionalIntentional
SocialSocial
Material
Social
Intentional
Implications for design
Techno pedagogical design
=
Devising new experiences and tools to support them in response to educational goals
=Changing the material and
social fabric to engender new patterned practices in dialog with the intentional fabric
How?
• Map the material, social and intentional forces that define the problem space (survey)
• Identify tensions to resolve (analyse)• Narrate existing patterned practices (observe)• Narrate hypothetical patterned practices (scenarios)• Identify the technology in use, and how it could be
changed to support the desired scenarios
Force mapping
Storyboarding
Thank You!
Yishay Mor, iet.open.ac.uk/Yishay.Mor
Institute of Educational TechnologyThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AA