Fantasy Sports Games as Cultures for Informal Learning Impact
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The motivational aspects of fantasy sports games may inspire these youth to .... of fantasy sports for informal learning. Reports will also be submitted to ...
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Fantasy Sports Games as Cultures for Informal Learning ImpactPage 1Fantasy Sports Games as Cultures for Informal LearningBrian K Smith & Priya SharmaThe Pennsylvania State UniversityImpactInformal learning generally refers to activities that occur outside of school settings and can be characterized by voluntary rather than mandatory participation (Crane 1994). Numerous informal learning media exist such as exhibitsin museums and zoos television and other broadcast media books and other print media. In all cases learners’ decisions to explore these environments constitutes a form of freechoice learning (Falk & Dierking 2002) where peoplecontrol what they want to learn as well as where when and whom to learn with.The majority of informal learning environments are designed by researchers and practitioners and offered to peopleas possible venues for freechoice learning. Our proposed research is somewhat different as we will begin with anexisting community of motivated individuals to understand a) if and what they are learning as members of the community and b) how to design supports to increase the amount of informal learning that may exist. In a sense we aretrying to extend informal learning to “everyday” contexts where opportunities for learning may exist as people engage in activities that would not be considered “pedagogical.”Numerous sociocultural studies have tried to characterize differences between the types of learning that occur informal educational contexts and the world outside of schools. For instance studies of activities such as carpet layingfarming candy selling (Carraher Carraher & Schliemann 1985; Saxe 1991) shopping (Lave 1988) and gameplaying (Nasir 2002; Nasir 2005) have examined the connections between mathematics learning and cultural practices associated with activity. The perspectives adopted in these studies focus on the cultural practices in whichlearning occurs. That is the unit of analysis focuses on ...
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