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SUMMARY:Dynamic literacies and agentive learners in static systems - Dr Jo
 hn Potter Department of Culture\, Communication and Media University Colle
 ge London Knowledge Lab UCL Institute of Education
DTSTART:20161101T163000Z
DTEND:20161101T180000Z
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CONTACT:Araceli Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:Agency in learning settings is a key issue for educational sys
 tems around the world\, particularly where performative measures threaten 
 to inhibit children’s ability to learn and their teachers’ abilities t
 o respond creatively to their needs.  In the context of the wider use of d
 igital media and technology this issue occupies a contested space between 
 home and school and brings into question wider issues of definitions of bo
 th “literacy” and “agency”. What does it mean to be literate in 20
 16?  What does it mean to be agentive in as a learner in 2016? Based on a 
 number of research projects in recent years my talk explores media product
 ion and curation as a set of active new literacy practices in which partic
 ular strategic dispositions and skills are employed by children of primary
  and lower secondary age (5 – 14) to represent identity\, affiliation an
 d cultural capital. It will consider the nature of the pedagogical respons
 e to these paradigm shifts in formal and informal educational settings. It
  will introduce the concept of the semi-permeable membrane between home an
 d school as a third space and location of a “porous expertise” which p
 otentially promotes a more agentive engagement in learning. There will be 
 time to show examples of work and hopefully to discuss and debate them in 
 the context of the theories outlined. \n\nProfile: \nDr John Potter is Sen
 ior Lecturer in Education and New Media in the Department of Curriculum\, 
 Culture and Media at the London Knowledge Lab. in the Department of Cultur
 e\, Communication and Media at the UCL Institute of Education\, where he i
 s also Academic Head of learning and Teaching.  He is a founder member of 
 the DARE Collaborative (Digital Arts Research in Education) and his resear
 ch and publications are in the fields of: digital video production by youn
 g learners (the focus of his doctoral research)\; the use of social softwa
 re and online networks for publication and learning\; media education\, ne
 w literacies\, creative activity and learner agency\; the changing nature 
 of teaching and learning in response to the pervasive use in wider culture
  of media technologies in formal and informal settings. Before moving into
  Higher Education\, John worked as primary school teacher in East London a
 nd an LEA advisory teacher.  He has previously held teacher education post
 s at both the University of East London and Goldsmiths College. He is the 
 author (for Palgrave US) of Digital Media and Learner Identity: The new cu
 ratorship\, published in 2012.  He is currently collaborating with Profess
 or Julian McDougall of Bournemouth University’s Centre for Excellence in
  Media Practice on a new book for Palgrave entitled Digital Media\, Cultur
 e and Education: Theorising third space learning.\nFor research group info
  and blogs see http://darecollaborative.net  \nFurther details on publicat
 ions and research are at http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=JPP
 OT87 \n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, (ro
 om GS4 Donald McIntyre Building)
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