[NetBehaviour] Feminist Theory, Online Action, and Networked Learning

[marc garrett]

Feminist Theory, Online Action, and Networked Learning.

Howard Rheingold interviews FemTechNet

“It’s not just about studying and learning,” says Pitzer College student 
Susanna Ferrell. “It’s also about activism,” adds fellow student Jade 
Ulrich, both of whom were beta testers for a Distributed Open 
Collaborative Course (DOCC) about “Dialogues on Feminism and Technology” 
that started with Pitzer, University of California, San Diego, and 
Bowling Green State University students and spread to 18 colleges and a 
worldwide community of online learners. (Ferrell and Ulrich presented at 
the experiential learning conference in San Diego, January 2014.)

As Ms. Ulrich noted, participants in DOCC 2013 did not just view the 
texts and respond to keyword dialogues, blog, and collectively aggregate 
knowledge repositories — they also acted upon feminist principles by 
wikistorming — making sure (through active editing and authoring) that 
Wikipedia articles acknowledge technological accomplishments of women. 
Connected learning generally grows from an enthusiasm that springs from 
a personal interest in a topic, along with shared purpose among 
learners. When that shared interest and purpose is feminism, experiments 
in open, collaborative, networked learning can include activism, much in 
the way action research seeks ways to solve social problems.

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http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/feminist-theory-online-action-and-networked-learning