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"Why Designing a Course is Like Creating a Theme Park:
Imagineering Illegitimate Peripheral Participation"
Abstract: Part of what a teacher does is explain why what's being taught is important and relevant. That part of the job is essentially a form of story-telling. The theory of situated learning called "legitimate peripheral participation" (LPP) (Lave and Wenger) helps us understand what might motivate students in a class. Using the media computation classes, we'll talk about how we can understand what makes media computation work (and not work) in terms of LPP. We find that the design principles we're using are similar to those used by Disney Imagineering in creating their theme parks, and we make the argument that the kind of story-telling that we use in creating a course is like designing a theme park. |
