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The Tools at Hand: Agency, Industry and Technological Innovation in a Distributed Learning Community

The Tools at Hand: Agency, Industry and Technological Innovation in a Distributed Learning Community

Charles Underwood, Leann Parker
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781609606237|ISBN10: 160960623X|EISBN13: 9781609606244
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch027
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Underwood, Charles, and Leann Parker. "The Tools at Hand: Agency, Industry and Technological Innovation in a Distributed Learning Community." Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices, edited by Melody Bowdon and Russell G. Carpenter, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 300-313. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch027

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Underwood, C. & Parker, L. (2011). The Tools at Hand: Agency, Industry and Technological Innovation in a Distributed Learning Community. In M. Bowdon & R. Carpenter (Eds.), Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices (pp. 300-313). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch027

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Underwood, Charles, and Leann Parker. "The Tools at Hand: Agency, Industry and Technological Innovation in a Distributed Learning Community." In Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices, edited by Melody Bowdon and Russell G. Carpenter, 300-313. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch027

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Abstract

This chapter presents an anthropological case study of the response to rapidly changing technologies by members of a distributed network of 35 technology-based afterschool programs throughout California. University-Community Links (UC Links) is a collaborative effort among university campuses and local communities to develop a network, both physical and virtual, of afterschool program sites for underserved youth in California. While each UC Links program is a physical setting with its own set of learning activities developed in response to the cultural, linguistic, and educational concerns of the local community, the UC Links network as a whole serves as a larger virtual context for defining and pursuing shared goals and objectives and communicating information about effective uses of new digital technologies for afterschool learning. Using a cultural historical perspective, the authors approach UC Links as a sociotechnical activity system engaged in joint activity, and examine and assess its long-term adaptability and the differential capabilities of its local member sites to innovate in response to successive transformations of emerging technologies.

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