Merja BautersJukka PurmaAalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture firstname.surname@aalto.fi

Change of practice as learning & reflection as control of habits

Interactive Technology in Education (ITE) 2014 conference, 9th - 11th of April 2014 at Hotel Aulanko, Hämeenlinna, Finland.

Sun kuva!!!!!

Merja BautersPost doctoral researcher

Jukka PurmaResearcher

Learning Environments research group (LeGroup)

Media Lab HelsinkiAalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Three Things to Think

1. Context and time 2. Experience grounds learning and reflection3. Ach So! : mobile video tool for learning

Context and time

Construction sector

What are the main challenges for learning in construction sector?

Harsh conditions

Lack of time and space

Difficult to predict moments for the need to learn new tools, practices, and materials

What are the main challenges for learning in construction sector?

Practices and situations

How to support learning, when the work is connected to physical practices, places and unique

situations?

Make learning possible as part of the work.

Make learning possible in situ.

Provide tools to enhance learning in a network.

How to support learning, when the work is connected to physical practices, places and unique

situations?

(Kooken et al., 2007, Kerosuo and Toiviainen, 2011,Mørch and Skaanes 2010)

Three Things to Think

1. Context and time ✔2. Experience grounds learning and reflection3. Ach So! : mobile video tool for learning

Experience as learning

Learning through Experiences

Experiences may suggest changes of practices.

The need to change pushes reflective processing of the situations…

…which results as new practices (habits).

Learning through Experiences

Peirce, C. S. (1931-58). Collected Papers of Charles S. Peirce. 8 vols. Ed. by Hartshorne, C. & Weiss, P. (vols. 1-6), & Burks, A. (vols. 7-8). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Reflection in work

Reflection in the moment

Moments of doubts and inspiration.

Feeling of irritation, annoyance.

Clues and hints help us to understand where the irritation comes from.

Moments of qualitative immediacy.

Reflection in the moment

Peirce, C. S. (1931-58). Collected Papers of Charles S. Peirce. 8 vols. Ed. by Hartshorne, C. & Weiss, P. (vols. 1-6), & Burks, A. (vols. 7-8). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

John Dewey: The Later Works, 17 vols. (1981-1991). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

How to Enhance Reflection?

When experience triggers reflection, a tool may turn that reflection into visible and shareable action.

Such tool can make a common (or an uncommon) execution of a task into a shared object for e.g.

improvement.

How to Enhance Reflection?

Three Things to Think

1. Context and time ✔2. Experience grounds learning and reflection ✔3. Ach So! : mobile video tool for learning

http://achso.aalto.fi

Ach So!

• Inspired by AnViAnno, a proof of concept app for video annotation with Android devices (by RWTH – Aachen).

• Redesign and develop a mobile tool for learning in construction

• Agile design and development: iterations, testing, more development.

enact experience : record annotate share

reflection

Genres to help getting started : site visit, problem, trick of trade, good work.

Clips to be stored in device and in cloud. ..short clips, very short clips..

Use automatic meta-data for recommendations: location, time, author etc. Social Semantic Server tries to infer workplaces and routines

Future research and development

• More research on the use in the wild:– Learning experience / collaborative learning / social

networks.– Organizational issues.

– Social and political questions.

• Better support for harsh conditions– record clips with wearable cameras (GoPro bridge)– Other ways to record without using hands (glasses?)

• More annotation options– tricks with the annotation marker – hand-drawn annotations– voice annotations (and voice to text?)

When you carry Ach So! with you, you know to keep your eyes open for learning experiences.

Thank you!

Merja BautersJukka Purma

Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Helsinki – Finland firstname.surname@aalto.fi

The Learning Layers project is supported by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme under Grant Agreement #318209, under the DG Information society and Media (E3), unit of Cultural heritage and technology-enhanced learning. http://learning-layers.eu