19. Humans are predisposed to “story” their experiences & thereby impose a narrative interpretation upon information and experience. (Doyle & Carter, 2003)
20. Narrative and Learning w/ Web 2.0 Pachler & Daly 2009 Learning = adaptation to make sense of our physical and sociocultural context…and as a continually refining capacity…to intelligently navigate an ever changing social, cultural, and physical world. Narrative (Storytelling): offering an organizational frame for new experiences and knowledge creation and building. (Falk & Dierking, 2000; Pachler & Daly, 2009)
21. Narrative Learning Trail: Individuals are seen as engaging with a complex interactive process when learning within a particular environment. It involves the appropriation of a range of resources available to the individual organized and activated through chaining. (Walker, 2006)
22. Who Are Trail Makers? Narrative Learning Trail Authors have AGENCY = They have the capacity to make choices about what counts as knowledge/reality.
23. What about Web 2.0? 3.0? Author/Agentive processes of structuring and meaning-making are necessary to participate in a disparate, distributed and ill-defined information environment. (Pachler & Daly, 2009)
24. Sense-Making Assumptions of Social Media Spaces: >Knowledgeable Readers Familiar with Content of Interest (OR) >If Not Knowledgeable, then Experienced with Social Spaces to Know How to Engage with the Unfamiliar
25. 2 EXAMPLES How do readers/viewers/users navigate through www.behance.net? Read comments and see if you can discern common stories. How do readers/viewers tell stories about “creepers” on Twitter? Use www.listoftweets.com and generate a list of tweets about this phenomenon. What narratives do you seeemerging?