art, wiki, mobile phones, blog, collective knowledge building
A research project that combines wiki, blog and mobile phone technologies to support high school students interpreting works of contemporary art across two settings, classroom and museum. The wiki and blog solutions were developed by InterMedia in the wiki platform 'Confluence,' in collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum.
Overview
Groups in Digital Dialogue is a study of high school students interpreting modern and contemporary works of art. The knowledge domain is art history, a curriculum subject in which students are expected to not only master terminology and knowledge about artists and works -- but also to critically inquire and engage in meaning making processes. Museums are particularly interested in teenagers as a visitor group, and ICT-supported communication represents a means of achieving this goal, as youths are generally competent and familiar with many forms of digital technology. High school students are thus chosen for the study because they tend to make an effort to understand contemporary art, but also because they are a target audience for both contemporary art museums and developers of new mobile technologies.
Aims
The aim of this project is to design and combine technologies in activities that will engage high school students in deeper learning and experiences of contemporary art in museums. InterMedia and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art are currently implementing and analyzing the second iteration of the GIDDER prototype, which further develops an outreach model often used by museums in their work with schools.
• Pre-visit: students work with information in group wiki spaces and select works that they will explore more deeply at the museum
• Visit: students use mobile phones to blog - and label - experiences, impressions, and conversations to the wiki
• Post-visit: groups use blog, labels, and other resources to interpret selected artworks, presentation of wiki spaces to class
Methods
Ethnographic observations, scenarios, prototype development, pilot studies
Gidder is financed as a three-year postdoc project, ending in 2009.
Outcomes
Book chapters
Pierroux P (in press) Literacy and Meaning Making in Museums. In Gentikow Barbara, Skogseth Egil G. og Østerud, Svein (Eds.) Literacy and Cultural Techniques. Hampton Press: Creshill NJ.
Pierroux P (in press) Guiding Meaning on Guided Tours. In Morrison A (Ed.) Inside Multimodal Composition. Hampton Press: Creskill NJ.
Pierroux, P. (2001) Information and Communication Technology in Art Museums. In Internett i endring (Internet and Change), Liestøl and Rasmussen (Eds.), Oslo: Novus. pp 87-104.
Conference papers, posters, presentations
Pierroux P (2008) Extending meaning from museum visits through the use of wikis and mobile blogging. Conference paper at International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2008), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Pierroux P (2008) Identity and Learning across Classroom and Museum Ecologies. Conference paper at International Society of Culture and Activity Research (ISCAR 2008), San Diego, CA.
Pierroux P (2008) Multimodality and Learning Encounters with Art. Conference paper at Multimodality and Learning. New Perspectives on Knowledge, Representation and Communication, London, 2008.
Pierroux, P., Kaptelinin, V., Hall, T., Walker, K., Bannon, L., and D. Stuedahl. (2007) MUSTEL: Technology-Enhanced Learning in Museums. Poster presented at Kaleidoscope Symposium, Berlin, November 26-28.
Pierroux, P. (2007) GIDDER Demo. Paper presented at Kaleidoscope Symposium, Berlin, November 26-28.
Pierroux, P. (2007) GIDDER: Groups in Digital Dialogues. Poster presented at Competence and Media Convergence Conference (CMC), Oslo, November 22-23.
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