EduCon 2.2

What Free Improvisational Music and Networked Learning Have in Common

When:

Session Two: Saturday 12:30pm–2:00pm

Where:

Room 303

Who:

Shelly Blake-Plock

Affiliation: TeachPaperless.com and the High Zero Foundation

Conversational Focus/Audience:

All School Levels

Conversation Description:

Networked learning is, in effect, a manner of tapping into a broader, dynamic, and ongoing creation, assessment, and reassessment of content and critical thinking. In music, the analogy would be to free improvisation — where musicians collaboratively set sail for uncharted waters relying on the strategies that develop out of various strata of network-mind experience.

Conversational Practice:

Participants and audience will collaborate on the creation of spontaneous music and sound performance to be mixed, remixed, mashed, and archived online. An accompanying backchannel/chat will serve as meta-discussion (and may at times lead the improvisations into totally new directions).

Elluminate Rooms ( instructions for launching Elluminate )

Stream via Elluminate: Room 303 — Channel B

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