ERIC Number: EJ1098330
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Everyone Learns from Everyone: Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Professional Development in Digital Literacy
Hobbs, Renee; Coiro, Julie
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v59 n6 p623-629 May-Jun 2016
Hobbs and Coiro describe a new approach to the professional development of educators, librarians, and media professionals that emphasizes the value of collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships. The authors explore why creative collaboration using digital media texts, tools, and technologies is vital to support the professional development of educators. Creative collaboration experiences generate personally meaningful, transformative learning by promoting personal reflection in a social context. It is important to provide cognitive and emotional support for the risk-taking cycles of experimentation and trial-and-error process that is essential for learning to use digital tools. By using inquiry learning practices through collaborative and creative media production, adult learners thrive by taking on distinct and enmeshed roles that inevitably involve creative tension that stimulates and energizes innovation.
Descriptors: Cooperation, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Transformative Learning, Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Approach, Adult Learning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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