{"id":936,"date":"2020-08-27T09:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T07:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/?p=936"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T07:52:03","slug":"ls-2020-conference-interesting-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/2020\/08\/ls-2020-conference-interesting-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Research update #2 – L@S 2020 Conference : Interesting Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to COVID-19, there has been an inevitable shift in the learning paradigm. When the world is at a pause, the only outlet to persist education has been through a transition from an in-person to an online-based learning experience. This challenge in the educational scenario caused by the pandemic has brought us to the brink of yet another transformation that Education had been waiting to witness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am currently researching to understand how students learn programming and how collaborative learning can be used in this specific context for a pedagogically rich learning experience. This led me to not only look at the prospects of interactions that happen while learning, both in offline and online environments, but also to understand the nuances of mediating these interactions among different entities on a larger scale. This gave me a good reason to attend the <\/span>L@S 2020 Conference<\/span><\/a> and learn more about the interesting works going on in the field of education transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learning at Scale<\/i><\/b>, known as <\/span>L@S<\/i><\/b> (pronounced as L-AT-S) is an annual conference by the <\/span>Associated for Computing Machinery (ACM)<\/b>. It focuses on investigating student learning, insights on learning habits & experiences, educational technologies, and emerging forms of co-creation & knowledge-production at a large-scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

I took away some interesting insights from this conference. And through this blogpost, I will be sharing with you all a summary of two projects from the many that fascinated me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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KEYNOTE SPEECH:<\/b> What My Little Pony Can Teach Us About Interest-Driven Learning<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The keynote speech peeped into the world of seemingly trivial and pop-culture driven fan-fiction writers and communities and discovered how these under-represented social spaces have been shaped for sophisticated and informal learning. The keynote was delivered by <\/span>Dr.Katie Davis<\/span><\/a> from the University of Washington, based on her book \u2018<\/span>Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u2019 that she had co-authored with Cecilia Aargon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The speech highlighted their findings from an in-depth study of fan-fiction writers and repositories online and how these takeaways can be extended to formal education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The highlights of their findings were :<\/span><\/p>\n