Change seekers as chance seekers

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“Beyond habit change: Change seekers as chance seekers” has been accepted for presentation at the CILC2014 – 2nd International Conference on Interactivity, Language and Cognition, which will take place in Jyväskylä, Finland next September.

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Change seekers as chance seekers

Emanuele BardoneCenter for Educational Technology, Institute of Informatics,Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

Learninga change

qualitative

positive

care&concern

InterventionHow to bring about such a change?

First option

The learner as a computer that can be programmed

One needs to have the right program and the right programmer

Second option

Learning as casting-forward

To learn how to blog means to find out what kind of blogger I am going to become

It’s not (just) about some kind of identitary element

There’s a phronetical dimension

orientation-finding

perspective-taking

How can we make this orientation-finding/perspec

tive taking intellegible?

A learner (as a change-seeker) is a chance-seeker

…the opportunistic exploitation of external resources as they come in

handy