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Week 4: September 27 – October 3, 2010
Theme: Many stories: A sociopolitical lens
What key literacies should we be teaching students in a digital world?, but also
To what extent is it the responsibility of educators to teach/coach these literacies?
Are there any drawbacks or dangers in teaching/coaching these literacies?
In conveying answers to your questions, try to utilize the tools and project formats mentioned in those sections below.
- Thomas Huxley http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/thomas_huxley_quotes.html
And now for something complEATly different. The concept of edupunk suggests that there are issues regarding new technologies not being addressed by institutional learning, and it also suggests an 'in your face' approach to resolving some of these issues by stepping around the established authority and just doing it. This week we'll consider what some of these ill-addressed issues are, and we'll ask: when is it justified to simply take off on one's own tangent on the assumption that this is best for one's students? What are the up- and downsides to such an approach? In what way is this a multiliteracies issue? Participants should enjoy addressing the question: Do you feel that you, or anyone for that matter, is, are, or should be an edupunk?
Theme: Many baas & ^^^^: An ecological lens
FINALLY, we put here issues that come up during the first 5 weeks and address them in the context of the five lenses from our course text by Mark Pegrum. Of course, our participants might have other ideas. In that case, we'll go with the flow.
Impacts of technology with anticipated time-to-adoption 1 year, 2-3 years, and 3-5 years
What directions and tangents might multiliteracies and educational technology take in the coming years?
Let's start with the past. Here Stephen Downes updates some predictions from ten years ago ...
http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/11/future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on_16.html
Her last resource cited is the Future of the Internet III from the Pew Internet and American Life Project
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2009_predictions_across_the_we.php
How might the following impact education with respect to multiliteracies?
Technology stakeholders and critics were asked in an online survey to assess scenarios about the future social, political, and economic impact of the Internet and they said the following:
• The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the
world in 2020.
• The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily
yield more personal integrity. social tolerance, or forgiveness.
• Talk and touch user-interfaces with the Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by
2020.
• Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in
a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content
without payment.
• The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual
reality will be further erased for everyone who’s connected, and the results will be mixed in terms
of social relations.
• “Next-generation” engineering of the network to improve the current Internet architecture is
more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.
The future of the Internet and HOW TO STOP IT
is a great open eBook by Jonathan Zittrain, which you can download free from http://futureoftheinternet.org/.
The book characterizes the wild west past of the Internet (free, open source, and generative, but plagued with concomitant problems from hackers, uneven quality control) vs the way it's trending now, toward locked down appliance apps where vendors control qualilty (that's good) but also what you can do with and add to the app (that's not so good). The book's last chapter is about what we can do to reconcile these forces, before it's too late (gulp!).
ePortfolios
Jennifer Verschoor found some resources on eportolios and posted them to our YahooGroup list
Here are some teacher ePortfolios:
Vance retweeted this, Sept 25, 2010
Buth tweeted back:
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