The brief.

As we get to the end of things, here is the brief for the final IP! Making direct and substantive reference to at least 3 resources,  please respond in writing (no bullets) to the following question:

Imagine you are leading (You are getting paid a lot of money to do this!) a professional learning seminar for educational technology specialists wanting to “think outside the box”. How would you get them to understand what new materialism is? What are some examples, or activities, you could use to illustrate some of the differences a new materialist perspective offers to educational technology studies? How would you get them to understand why new materialism invites a re-seeing and re-thinking of “best practices”? (5 slides with speakers notes that elaborate on each slide).

In order to fulfill the prompt, I’ve designed a 60 minute workshop in New Materialism in my school context. I re-imagined elements of the theory as tools to think with, and constructed several activities of my own, while elaborating on others. Please note that the product has been created in Genially as a storyboard. Each scene has a plus (+) sign in the bottom left corner which houses speaker’s notes. Navigate using the arrows to the left and right. Note that there are 6 scenes in total.