Constructing Intermodal Literacies
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The Everyday Learning group at Media Lab Europe invent tools and environments with and in which people can experiment with ideas, create things using computational materials, and make their creations public. We are interested in how these processes support people's learning through life – meaning through the lifetime and through day-today living, in everyday situations. We call these " informal " learning situations. They differ from " formal " learning situations as you'd find in schools and professional training programs where, typically, someone external to the learner says not only what the learner should learn, but how to go about learning it. Instead, we are interested in situations where learning is based on the learner's curiosity, where learners come because they want to rather than because someone tells them they should, and where learners have the freedom to pursue ideas in their own ways. Therefore we are interested in settings like homes, museums, zoos, clubhouses, community centres, airports, shopping areas and workplaces, and how we can help to shape these settings as informal learning environments that are welcoming, engaging and productive. An important aspect of such environments is that they provide material and social supports for people to pursue creative activities centred around some core idea. For us this core is often a basic idea in math or science, because we are interested in how more people can develop thinking that will enable them to participate fully in our technological society. In order to design learning environments that will be welcoming and meaningful for many people, we need to consider the broad diversity that characterises human thinking and knowing. This leads us to the design principle of representing ideas in multiple ways and at multiple scales. It also leads us to arrange unusual learning partnerships, such as between members of different cultures and different generations. As we create tools to support these varied learning processes, we study how people go about using the tools to learn and to reflect on their learning, and this study in turn informs our design and development of the tools.
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