Topic: Learning in Affinity Spaces: TheOneRing.net (A Pilot Study)"Presenters: Verily Tan
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What are affinity spaces? Start here.
Affinity Spaces (Gee, 2004)
- people learn best when their learning is part of a highly motivated engagement and social practices they value
- people can participate in many ways and degrees
11 features (an affinity space doesn't have to have all 11, but a space with more of the features is more of an affinity space than another).
- A common endeavor is primary (not race, class, gender, or ability/disability).
- Participation is self-directed, multi-faceted, and dynamic.
- Portals are often multimodal.
- Provide a passionate, public audience for content.
- Socializing plays an important role in affinity space participation.
- Leadership roles vary within and among portals.
- Knowledge is distributed across the entire space.
- Many portals place a high value on cataloguing and documenting content and practices.
- Encompass a variety of media-specific and social networking portals.
(I got ^ these ^ online because she went really fast. I think hers were a little different, and she had 11 instead of 9)
Verily did a detailed analysis of an affinity space about Tolkien's work called TheOneRing.net.
Can affinity spaces be applied to formal learning? She suggested Brown 1994's Community of Learners
What methods can be used to address this? Open question...
Other resources: Lave and Wergner
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