Connection Information: Connected Learning and Information Practices

Abstract

Connected learning is a framework for learning in online environments. It encourages learning design to be peer supported, interest driven, academically oriented, production centered, based on a shared purpose and openly networked how to design learning opportunities that are connected requires school librarians and information professionals to understand the information practices involved in connected learning. This research examined previously collected data, to compare information practices of teen content creators to connected learning practices of the same participants. It suggests specific information practices that are imbedded in connected learning principles.