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<p style="margin: 0;"><span>Dear Daniela,</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;">Excellent and apropos topic! I have many thoughts on this subject as I am currently developing a global apprenticeship network via technology. I'm interested in hearing more about your research and your apprenticeship journey. It's the weekend here in Amman, so I'm heading out of the office. I will respond later.  Thank you!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;">Suzanne Lettrick </p>
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> From: Daniela Rosner <daniela.rosner@gmail.com><br/>
> Subject: [iDC] IT & Apprenticeship<br/>
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> Dear ICD list,<br/>
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> I was asked to facilitate a discussion this week, and thought this was a<br/>
> wonderful opportunity to bring up the subject of apprenticeship. First, some<br/>
> background: I am pursuing a dissertation at UC Berkeley's School of<br/>
> Information where I'm studying creative tools. My research sits at the<br/>
> intersection of material culture studies and computer interaction design. As<br/>
> part of this research, I spent some time as an apprentice bookbinder in the<br/>
> UK where I was taught how to take apart older books, restore them, and put<br/>
> them back together. This experience contrasted greatly with my experience as<br/>
> an undergraduate graphic design major at RISD, where I learned how to<br/>
> arrange type and graphics through iterative design critiques. In the<br/>
> bookbinding workshop there were no formal critiques; there was learning<br/>
> through doing.<br/>
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> So my first question to this group is how the contemporary DIY ethic, and<br/>
> its accompanying how-to, step-by-step tutorials, work in comparison to a<br/>
> formal apprenticeship? Many researchers, including Jean Lave and Richard<br/>
> Sennett, have described the socially situated nature of craft apprenticeship<br/>
> and the importance of participating in a community of practice. But the ways<br/>
> in which digital instructional tools might play a role in this traditional<br/>
> skill development seems underdeveloped.<br/>
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> A recent example of interest is the Tortellini-making computer<br/>
> game<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1921148>developed by<br/>
> University of Bologna researchers (Roccetti et al, 2010). The<br/>
> game enables a novice pasta-maker to hone his or her pasta-making skills by<br/>
> watching video of an expert, replicating her workmanship, and responding to<br/>
> a system which tracks and evaluates the player's imitated actions. The tool<br/>
> thus combines video and gesture recognition techniques to simulate in-person<br/>
> instruction. Instead of studying alongside a master craftsman for seven<br/>
> years, a similar system might provide a scaffolded environment for learning<br/>
> a range of hand skills.<br/>
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> Yet what skills are learned through such a game? And how do those skills<br/>
> compare to in-person instruction or apprenticeship? As experts in<br/>
> educational technology, I am curious how you respond to the concept of<br/>
> apprenticeship and technology's role in facilitating such work, more<br/>
> generally.<br/>
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> Daniela<br/>
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