EPISODE 05: COLLABORATION AND COMMUNITY

Episode 05: Collaboration and Community | 23 December 2025

Trent and Stephen dig into The Worldbuilding Workshop’s fourth chapter, “Collaboration and Community,” including:

• Similarities and differences between traditional classrooms and Communities of Practice;

• Why distributed, decentralized expertise is so valuable for both instructors and learners;

• How to foster a Community of Practice in a classroom environment;

• The relationship between constructivism, cognitive apprenticeship, and collaborative worldbuilding;

• The Clarion Workshop as a model Community of Practice;

• Navigating individual and community identities, beliefs, and assumptions;

• Social vs. biomedical definitions of disability and how they inform collaborative, inquiry-based learning;

• And the case for anti-disciplinary, cross-domain teaching and learning.

Episode References:

• Lave, J. & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge University Press.

• Cochran, A., Slota, S. T., & Young, M. F. (2024). League of Legends: The case for nested & braided Communities of Practice. In H. R. Gerber (Ed.), The literacies of the esports ecosystem (pp. 93-114). Gaming Ecologies and Pedagogies Series, Volume: 5. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689770_005

• Hutchins, E. (1996). Cognition in the wild. The MIT Press.