What My Little Pony Can Teach Us About Interest-Driven Learning
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Five years of mixed methods research — nine months of ethnography, thematic coding of 4,500 reviews, and a longitudinal analysis of ~7 million fanfiction stories (8 million users, ~175 million reviews) — claims that distributed mentoring arises in fandoms via seven affordances (aggregation, accretion, acceleration, abundance, availability, asynchronicity, affect). A My Little Pony discussion on fimfiction.net (46 responses from 20 people) illustrates accretion and acceleration, and the data show that every 650 reviews ≈ one year of vocabulary growth. Proposes open, pseudonymous school platforms and cites Out of Eden Learn (30,000 students, 60 countries) as a workable model.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:19Research motivation
- 4:20Personal origins of research
- 7:21Scale of fan fiction
- 10:53Study methodology
- 14:43Passion and community value
- 17:01Distributed mentoring model
- 20:43Attributes of mentoring
- 26:06Quantifying writing progress
- 29:33Broader applicability
- 32:07Applying to formal education
- 37:57Out of Eden Learn example
- 41:28Q&A session
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