Mentoring, metacognition and music to mobile learning

Reflections on a 16-yearresearch journey from mentoring, metacognition and music to Mobile learning

Cooperative problem seeingdialogues in learning Cook 2000

• Does not focus on winning the argument or persuading your partner
• Instead involves an acceptance by participants that they will attempt to find and refine a problem specification
• A problem specification is a description of a problem that is interesting or novel
• Creative discourse in music
• Empirical work – model of interaction and learning and computer-based learning support
• Meta-muse – computational implementation
• Metamuse is a pedagogical agent that has been designed to adaptively structure interactions between pairs of cooperative learners
• Tried to generate musical ideas to get people thinking
• Conclusion– claim that metamuse encouraged problem seeking

Going for a localwalkabout: putting urban planning education in context with mobile phones Cook,2009

• To provide a contextualised social and historical account of urban education, focusing on systems and beliefs that contribute to the construction of the surrounding discourses
• Going round London exploring how schools have changed over the last century
• Part of CONTSENS EU project

Learner generated context

Appropriation