Unit 3 Meaning and Identity: Exploring Communities of Practice

Understanding Goals

• What is the interplay between meaning, identity and practice in the formation and sustainability of learning communities?
• What are the ways that technology supports and challenges the negotiation of meaning, identity and practice in communities and social networks?

Readings

• Chapters 1-2 in Cultivating Communities of Practice
• Communities of Practice, pages 45-84
• Chapter 3 in Digital Habitats