07. oktober 2024
5. februar 2025 - DiP webinar with Robert Gray: 'Digital Learning as a Textual Act: Meaningful Interaction and the Value of the Writerly'
This session will offer a novel conceptual framework for teaching and learning that gives more purposefulness and intentionality to commonly used terms such as interaction and active learning. Drawing on Roland Barthes’s concept of the writerly text (1974), we will discuss new avenues for thiking about how students engage with course content by reconceptualizing learning as an act of meaning making. Barthes argued that texts tend to be either readerly or writerly, that readerly texts put the reader in a passive position and offer a limited number of possible interpretations, while writerly texts situate the reader as a co-producer of the text’s meaning, making the act of reading an act of (re)writing. This session will present the concept of writerly teaching and learning, exploring how it can be achieved in the teaching and learning process, as well as how it can be employed as a design value for evaluating course and lesson design.
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