Exploring the opportunities of social media to build knowledge in learner-centered Indigenous learning spaces.

Huijser , Henk and Bronnimann, Jurg (2014) Exploring the opportunities of social media to build knowledge in learner-centered Indigenous learning spaces. In: Educating in dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology. Dialogue Studies (24). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 97-110. ISBN 9789027210418

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Abstract

This chapter explores the opportunities online learning environments offer to address issues related to Indigenous pedagogy and Indigenous approaches to teaching and learning, with a specific focus on social and mobile media. Social media tools have created many opportunities for social approaches to teaching and learning, and specifically to developing Indigenous learning communities, and overall much more explicitly learner-centered approaches. In this chapter we argue that social media are well suited to address the learning needs of Indigenous students in Australia, and at the same time we use Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, and its ‘both-ways’ philosophy, as a case study to explore some of the opportunities and potential barriers that social media present within learner-centered pedagogy.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Social Media, Indigenous Learning Spaces, Mobile Media, Learner-Centredness, Both-ways
Field of Research (2008): 13 Education > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education > 130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
13 Education > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education > 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
Research Collaboration Area: Education
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Date Deposited: 12 Jan 2015 00:59
Last Modified: 24 Mar 2016 05:51
URI: https://eprints.batchelor.edu.au/id/eprint/412

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