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Chapter 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5124-3.ch014
ABSTRACT
The development of the digital environment and the global network has created opportunities for learn-
ing that we are just beginning to explore. Two key features of this recent development are collaborative
intelligence and ubiquitous learning. That way this chapter sets out to explore two situated practices with
the common ground scholar. The authors begin by telling how this cybersocial learning environment
has changed the way we see and understand education, our students, and how this changes our teaching
identity. They go on to recover some historical background of our educational systems and then situate
the ways they are implementing CGScholar. A consequence of this two autoetnography perspective is to
generate insights and refections on possibilities of use of this particular digital technology for education.
INTRODUCTION
This work began to take shape during the live sections of some courses in the Learning Design and Lead-
ership (LDL) doctoral program at the University of Illinois. Based on our interactions in the classes, we
created a research agenda and started to meet once a week to explore the ideas that are contained in this
chapter. In these meetings, we started to talk about our experiences with CGScholar, our difficulties, and
our successes. By way of introduction, Rodrigo is a visiting scholar teaching assistant within the LDL
program, a technology integrator at a Brazilian K-12 school, and teaches blended course methodology
Creating Communities
of Learners:
Education Without Frontiers
Rodrigo Abrantes da Silva
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6631-8017
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Jen Story Whiting
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA