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This theoretical chapter is a call to reconnect the underlying epistemologies of learning, teaching, and research through a deeper understanding of the synergies of layering shared perspectives and multimedia environments – in other words, the points of viewing theory (POVT) meets multimedia representations of teaching, learning, and research (MRTLRs). Until recently, Goldman-Segall’s points of viewing theory provided digital video ethnographers with a framework based on the sharing of perspectives for validity. We scale-up this perspective theory to explain how, in the age of social networking – learners’, teachers’, and researchers’ roles become more permeable through the collaborative process of layering viewpoints, analyses, and interpretations. Closing remarks discuss the importance of reconstituting the three parts of educating within social networking technologies spaces – the corner-store where learners hang out. Layering perspectives and the ability to create meaningful knowledge for self and others in social networks is the next frontier in the future of designing, using, and critiquing technologies for learning.
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Multimedia representations of teaching is a term used both by Magdalene Lampert and Deborah Ball (1998). The Carnegie Foundation gathering used the terms multimedia records of teaching and multimedia representations of teaching as interchangeable constructs.
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For the sake of clarity, all mediated worlds – online video tools, electronic games, interactive websites, wikis, virtual online environments, and the full range of social networking tools – will be termed “multimedia.” For those of you who consider multimedia and hypermedia out-of-date twentieth century terms, we beg your indulgence.
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The term educating is used to refer, not to the institutional product, but rather to the process of learning, teaching, and researching.
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Goldman, R., Dong, C. (2009). Linking the POV-ing Theory to Multimedia Representations of Teaching, Learning, Research in the Age of Social Networking. In: Moller, L., Huett, J., Harvey, D. (eds) Learning and Instructional Technologies for the 21st Century. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09667-4_7
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