Full Description
Designs for Experimentation and Inquiry examines how digital media is reconfiguring the established worlds of research, education and professional practice. It reflects on the theoretical, methodological and ethical issues shaping contemporary engagements with digital learning and offers insights for both analysing and intervening in digital learning practices.
This insightful volume fills a gap in the current literature by bringing together experiences from Sociocultural Studies of Learning, Science and Technology Studies, and Design Studies. Each chapter is an innovative case study, examining a different aspect of digital media's role in research, education and professional practice by exploring topics such as:
Learning practices and digitalized dialogue
Digital design experiments
Digitally mediated collaborations
Ethical digital inquiry and design
Expertly researched and written, this book is a unique resource for scholars, researchers and professionals working in the fields of digital design, applied technology and the learning sciences.
The Preface, and Introduction, as well as Chapters 3 and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
List of illustrations List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Digital Technologies, Learning and Forms of Agency 1. Concepts, materiality and emerging cognitive habits: The case of calculating carbon footprints for understanding environmental impact 2. Learning as Gap-Closing: Investigating digitalized dialogues 3. Digital inquiry into emerging issues of public concern: Controversy mapping in a Swedish school context Part II: Digital Design Experiments and Learning 4. Prototype Driven Learning and Inquiry: A Case Study of Architectural Design and Conceptualization 5. Imagining, Designing and Exhibiting Architecture in the Digital Landscape 6. Thinking Through the Databody: Sprints as Experimental Situations Part III: Investigating Digitally Mediated Collaborations 7. Transdisciplinary potentials: arts based methods, social science and digital bodies 8. Culture and Collaboration in Digitally Mediated Settings 9. The epistemology of mobilizing citizens in the sciences: Tensions in epistemic cultures of contribution and ideals of science Part IV: Ethical Digital Inquiry and Design 10. Everything old is new again: The ethics of digital inquiry and its design 11. A "situated ethics" for researching teacher professionals' emerging Facebook group discussions
