Slides from a presentation at the Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA. 27 July 2011. Seymour Papert describes bricolage as a way to learn and solve problems by trying, testing and playing around. How do we learn by playing around with digital stuff? Can we create deep learning experiences that encourage students to show and share what they know with the world and contribute to the global knowledge commons? A variety of concrete student centred learning experiences are shared that leverage the power of the world wide web and focus teachers instructional design through lenses that are student centred, knowledge centred, assessment centred, and community centred. We look at both small short term assignments and larger long term projects that demonstrate how your students can learn and share as 21st century bricoleurs

1. 21st century
bricoleurs
part one
Darren Kuropatwa
about.me/dkuropatwa
Building Learning Communities
Boston, 27 July 2011

2. A bricoleur is a kind of handyman who enjoys adroitly
drawing upon all sorts of everyday things - just what lies at
hand - to attend to those things that make the
good life.

3. A bricoleur is a kind of handyman who enjoys adroitly
drawing upon all sorts of everyday things - just what lies at
hand - to attend to those things that make learning
the good life.

4. le nses
4

5. le nses learner
4
encourage attention
to preconceptions
and begin instruction centred
with what students
think and know
from NAP: How Students Learn

6. le nses knowledge
4
focus on what
is to be taught,
why it is taught, centred
and what mastery
looks like
from NAP: How Students Learn

7. le nses assessment
4
provide frequent
opportunities to make
students’ thinking and centred
learning visible as a guide
for both the teacher &
the student in learning
and instruction
from NAP: How Students Learn

8. le nses community
4
encourage a culture
of questioning,
respect, and centred
risk taking
from NAP: How Students Learn

9. community
preconceptions
knowledge
networks
metacognition

10. Fibonacc
Tree

11. mind maps

13. feedback loops

15. Dr. Chung teaching in surgery (DSCN5563) / ReSurge International / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

17. watch it

18. watch it
do it

19. watch it
teach it
do it

20. Galleries
of Though
t

21. Publish It

22. Create It

23. Asking "Does using a wiki improve learning?"
is like asking "Does using a pencil improve writing?"
High School Sucks / Bekah / CC BY-NC 2.0

24. solution manuals

25. apcalc2008

26. the
wiki solutions manual
assignment
23

28. video
Are you ready??? by flickr user ssh
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssh/12638218/

30. Choose Your Own Path
Mathematics Stories
Fork in the Road by flickr user Friends of San Jacinto
http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendsofsanjacinto/4479943434/

31. How to Make an Interactive Lesson
Using Youtube
diagram source: Knewton EdTech Blog

32. via veritasium.com

33. Group Annotation Project
Group Annotation Project: half Lives and Decay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg0trSjx4AM

37. project work

38. ever ything
T tea ching
is NO he project.
d Lea rning they start t
Proje c t Base now b efore
need to k
they Horse and cart / Christian Guthier / CC BY-NC-SA

39. the
developing expert voices
project
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42. More about the back story to this idea ...

43. DEVious

44. Watch and Learn

45. MITSOP

46. Agent 003.14

47. The Sequel to MITSOP

48. your turn

49. “ A computer is an instrument
whose music is composed of ideas.
Alan Kay

50. “ A computer is an instrument
whose music is composed of ideas.
Alan Kay

52. C O N TA C T
Darren Kuropatwa
about.me/dkuropatwa
or
txt: dkuropatwa
to: 50500
thanks

53. photos
home. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/honorthegift/5100747345/) / Thinking by flickr user ores2k
Monique (http://www.flickr.com/photos/honorthegift/) / http://www.flickr.com/photos/ores2k/394359583/
CC BY-NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)
Tipsigigaa by flickr user AlaskaTeacher
One Of These Buttons Will Get Me Out Of Here http://www.flickr.com/photos/alstonfamily/2261822993/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cayusa/431036565/
Pewter letters and numbers (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/2242022768/) /
LEOL30 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/) /
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
published me
http://flickr.com/photos/hi-phi/329004580/
Magic is true!
http://flickr.com/photos/7933170@N03/2631820657/
Mind Mapping
http://flickr.com/photos/sirwiseowl/2101661645/
book shelf project 2 ~ striatic {notes}
http://flickr.com/photos/striatic/730978/
My version of a quadratic !
http://flickr.com/photos/40256716@N00/316074893/
Obligatory Wiki Photo
http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/19490596/
thanks dsc006647
http://flickr.com/photos/49405310@N00/24167123/
High School "Games" Projects
http://flickr.com/photos/mspatt/2367994924/
your turn ;p
http://flickr.com/photos/mariachily/2174723906/
Note: only 48 stars! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidz/4822005429/) /
David Zeuthen (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidz/) / Gallery Views (http://www.flickr.com/photos/libdespot/2568952934/) /
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/) libdespot (http://www.flickr.com/photos/libdespot/) /
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)
Girly Giggles (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mctrent/5095680249/) /
Trent McBride (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mctrent/) / What a Child Sees (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/176785431/) /
CC BY-NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) Thomas Hawk (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/) /
CC BY-NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)
portrait 8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minivanmafia/188108984/ Someone's Watching You (DSC_8575)
http://flickr.com/photos/shutterhack/2124873623/
Through the Lens by flickr user davidz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidz/822970543/ A volta do tordilho-negro
http://flickr.com/photos/bombeador/2324874956/
Noa Strupler by flickr user ND Strupler The_joy_of_teaching
http://www.flickr.com/photos/strupler/3059668176/ http://flickr.com/photos/jcrojas/63949879/
Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition (1911) by flickr user Stewart Group Annotation Project: half Lives and Decay
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewart/461099066/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg0trSjx4AM