Participatory Learning

by Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning

Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning reports on the various ways learning is extended beyond the classroom to include: educators, community members and students learning together in maker movements and STEM collaborations; students employing a variety of tools and media to address community issues and create solutions; and students connecting learning to their own lives.

This collection of news stories and interviews with digital media experts and scholars shows how participatory learning encourages powerful challenges to the very concept of learning, as traditional hierarchies between teacher/student are eliminated, and failure–fast and frequent failure, the kind of which is encouraged at schools like Quest to Learn–becomes a natural and essential part of the learning process.

97 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2014