Teaching and Learning in a Participatory Digital World

Angyue Liu, M.A. in Educational Technology, EDUC 420, Werklund School of Education

1. What is a participatory culture?

Strong support
for creation
Everyones
Low barriers and sharing
contribution
to artistic
matters
expression
Informal
Social
Contribute
to
mentorship
connection

Collective Learning

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3. Why should educators make efforts to build a participatory digital

classroom?
Access a variety of learning resources online;
Utilize students emerging technological skills and continually improve
the skills;
Develop students media literacy skills such as simulation, appropriation,
judgment, transmedia navigation, and networking;
Create a playful, imaginative, and enjoyable learning environment
4. What may teachers and students do in a participatory digital
classroom?

A Participatory Culture

2. How is technology use related to participatory

culture?
Emerging technologies change the way that people
access information, communicate and play, provide new
avenues for creating and sharing original content, and help
to build a more participatory culture.

Participatory
Culture

Students role-play
a scene from a
book and make a
video of the scene

Teachers create
websites and share
instructional
resources

Students publish an
online newspaper
and podcast their
work

Students view and

participate in
online discussion,
e.g., FanFiction

Students collect
pictures and
information
about different
trees and share
online with
global
classmates

Teacher creates
an online travel
guide and each
student writes up
an interesting
site in China

Question: What kinds of instructional strategies that you think may be

helpful to build a participatory digital classroom?
Reference: Jenkins, H., Purushotma, R., Weigel, M., Clinton, K., & Robison, A. J. (2009). Confronting
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the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. The MIT Press.
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