Teaching with Technology

20 January, 2010

Introductions & Perspectives
Who are we & who is our audience in higher education?
Workshop: The Ideal Space?

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Read for 27 January, 2010
Mizuko Ito et al., Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media (hereafter Hanging Out), Introduction & Media Ecologies
&
The Economist, A Special Report on Telecoms in Emerging Markets

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27 January, 2010

The Digital Divide?
Outside the Class Space/Inside the Class Space
Workshop : Constructing Learning

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Read for 3 February:
Henry Jenkins et al., Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

Research and Write for 8 February:
a) identify the journal about teaching and learning with information and communication technologies you want to explore this semester & b) post an analysis to the CTCH 603 blog of why you have chosen this journal for your explorations (500 words – images, audio, video, etc. welcome)

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3 February, 2010

New Media Literacy
Participatory Culture, Teaching & Learning
Workshop: Information Management and Building Social Capital

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Read for 10 February:
Mizuko Ito et al., Hanging Out…, Friendship, Intimacy, Families & Cecilia Uy-Tioco, Overseas Filipino Workers & Text Messaging: Reinventing Transnational Mothering (e-mail handout)

Due for 10 February:
Initial Ideas for Peer Teaching

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10 February

Friendship, Intimacy, Families…Teachers?
Identity & Relationship
Workshop: Review of initial plans for Peer Teaching sessions

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Read for 17 February:
Mizuko Ito et al., Hanging Out…, Gaming, Creative Production, Work & James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning (Extracts: handout) & Adam Arvidsson, Crisis of Value and the Ethical Economy

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17 February:

Cultures of Creativity & Collaboration
Workshop: Collaborative Spaces

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Read for 24 February:
Assigned section of Video Vortex Reader: Response to YouTube

View for 24 February:
Michael Wesch, An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube (about 50 minutes)

Schedule:
Individual conference to discuss peer teaching plans & technology in higher education philosophy

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24 February:

Information and Communication Technologies Case Study: YouTube
Workshop: Mid-Semester Assessment (complete by 17 March)

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Read for 17 March: TBA (from guest speaker and from peer teachers)

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3 March:

No Class:  Work on Peer Teaching Assignment and Mid-Semester Assessment

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10 March:

Spring Break:  Please find time for some R & R

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17 March
Due: Mid-Semester Assessment

Complete You Tube Jigsaw
Peer Teaching Session #1: Susan & Valerie

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Read for next week:
TBA (from guest speaker and from peer teachers)

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24 March:

Guest Speaker: Steve Klein, Department of Communication: Video-conferencing
Peer Teaching Session #2: Teddy

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Read for next week:
TBA (from guest speaker and from peer teachers)

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31 March:

Guest Speaker TBA
Peer Teaching Session #3: Joann

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Read for next week:
Bonnie Nardi & Vicki O’Day, Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart (electronic resource, George Mason University Libraries), chapters 1 – 6 & assigned case study from the same book
& TBA (peer teachers)

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7 April:

The Struggle for Coherence
Peer Teaching Sessions #6: Gil & Bob and #7: Hanan

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Read for next week:
Darren Cambridge, Eportfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment (extracts: handout)
& TBA (peer teachers)

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14 April:

Networked Identity: Individual & Collective
Electronic Portfolios: students, faculty, programs, departments, institutions

Peer Teaching Sessions #8: Chris & John and #9: Kim & Jenny and #10: Jonathan (virtual)

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Read for next week:
TBA (peer teachers)

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21 April
Due: Draft of Research “Paper”

Research Review
Peer Review of Research “papers”
Peer Teaching Session #11: Lynn

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28 April:
Due: Draft of Technology in Higher Education Philosophy

Philosophy Review
Peer review and discussion of philosophies

Where next?

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5 May:

Submit Electronic Portfolio