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“In order to go beyond traditional assessments of learning we assessed two aspects of students ‘learning ecologies’: their use of a variety of learning resources and the extent to which they share their knowledge about technology with others”
“we are working to understand learning across life spaces of home, school, community and through distributed resources offered by the Internet (see Fig. 1). This conceptualization of learning broadens the unit of analysis to include the total set of contexts, comprised of configurations of activities, material resources, and relationships found in physical or virtual spaces that provide opportunities for learning”