work-learning

From digital literacies to posthuman fluencies: Changing professional ways of knowing

From digital literacies to posthuman fluencies: Changing professional ways of knowing

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I’m currently studying how the everyday work-learning practices of the entrepreneurial workforce are changing through the infusion of web and mobile technologies. The data in this study suggests that increasingly sophisticated digital fluencies have come to matter in online work and learning practices. I prefer the term fluencies to literacies in an attempt to move beyond narrow conceptions of skill… Read more →

Digital doings: Curating work-learning practices

Digital doings: Curating work-learning practices

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In a recent research project exploring how everyday work-learning practices are changing through the infusion of web and mobile technologies, multiple knowing practices emerged (i.e., Thompson, 2013). I wonder if these micro-practices enact a form of curating. Not in the traditional sense of what museum professionals have always done, but as Cairns and Birchall (2013) suggest, mobilizing “new tactics, both… Read more →