COMM 120P Digital Media Pedagogy   Brian Goldfarb, Winter 2015   Dept of Communication, UCSD Overview Meetings Resources

Course Schedule:

Note: After the first week of classes we will be holding our Tuesday meetings at the HTMMA site unless otherwise announced. Media LIstening/Viewng assignments are due before the class. The course schedule is subject to change by the instructor.
You will be notified as early as possible of any changes.

week: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  | 5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10

Week One (Jan 6 & 8):  Introduction

• Course overview: scope and requirements
  • Site Visits at HTMMA: Sign up for school site times
  • Weekly journals on WebCT
  • Intro to Learning Activity Project
• Discuss HTMMA and Charter Schools
  • About High Tech High: http://www.hightechhigh.org/about/
  • Risks and benefits of teaching in a charter school: http://www.schoolsthatwork.org/risks-and-rewards-of-teaching-at-charter-schools/
  • Ben Chavis on Charter school in Oakland: http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/video-podcast-media/podcast-charter-school-works-featuring-ben-chavis
  • Scrutinizing Conflicts of Interest and Profiteering in the Charter School Movement http://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/podcast-the-charter-school-movement/
  • Diane Ravitch: Charter Schools Won't Save the School System
    http://www.usnews.com/news/best-leaders/articles/2010/04/19/diane-ravitch-charter-schools-wont-save-the-school-system
  • Charter schools: wave of the future? http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/15/charter-schools-wave-of-the-future/

[Site visits begin on Tuesday, January13--see the resources page for site description and directions]   

Week Two (Jan 13 & 15): Learning, Discipline, and Cultural Difference

Listen/View:

• Is This Working" episode 538 of This American Life, http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/538/is-this-working

Optional Reading:

Week Three (Jan 20 & 22): Multimedia pedagogies

Listen/View: TBA

• DIGITAL MEDIA - New Learners of the 21st Century : http://video.pbs.org/video/1797357384/

Optional Reading:

• Brian Goldfarb, Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom, "Introduction," pages1-22, and "Chapter 4: Peer Education and Interactivity"
• Paul Fyfe, "Digital Media Unplugged": http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/3/000106/000106.html
• Lankshear and Knobel, "Do We Have Your Attention?" http://everydayliteracies.net/attention.html
• Lankshear and Knobel, "Introduction" in Digital Literacies—Concepts, Policies and Practices
• Cathy Davidson, Now You See It, "Intro" and "Chapter 1"
• Buckingham, "Defining Digital Literacy: What Do Young People Need to Know About Digital Media?" in Lankshear and Knobel, Digital Literacies

Week Four (Jan 27 & 29): Transforming the Classroom and Remixing the Curriculum

Learning Activity Project Topic Proposal Due Mon, Jan 26 at 2pm on our Discussion Forum TED
(Guidelines: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~bgoldfarb/comm120p-w15/Learning_Activity_Guidelines.html)

Listen/View:

• RSA Animate, "Licensed to Create": http://youtu.be/MflATneJUa0
• YouthRadio.org "Remix Your Life"

 Further reading (optional):

• Erstad, " Trajectories of Remixing: Digital Literacies, Media Production, and Schooling" in Digital Literacies,
• Joseph Tobin, "An American Otaku," Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia, edited by Julian Sefton-Green
• Erstad, Gilje and de Lange, "Re-mixing Multimodal Resources"
• Cathy Davidson, Now You See It, "Chapter 3: Project Classroom Makeover"

Week Five (Feb 3 & 5): Standards vs Standardization: challenges of assessment       

Listen/View:

• College Board’s Coleman Says “Numbers Must Change” http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/Bloomberg_EDU/vrV66tumVJmU.mp3

Optional Reading:

• Cathy Davidson, Now You See It, "Chapter 4: How we Measure" (pp105-131)
• Online discussion of digital badges (TBA) badges for lifelong-learning: reframing-debate, others TBA
•  Alex Reid, Blog post on digital badges

Week Six (Feb 10 & 12): Universal Access: [Dis]ability  and Digital Learning

Listen/View:

• Pushing Limits’ "Race and Disability": http://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/tag/podcast/
• "Batman," episode 544 of This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/544/batman

Optional Reading:

• Patricia A. Dunn and Kathleen Dunn De Mers: "Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation: Embracing Universal Design in Writing Pedagogy and Web Space," Kairos, Volume 7, Issue 1 online: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.1/binder2.html?coverweb/dunn_demers/index.html
• So What Is Normal? Resources on disability and architecture for higher education: http://www.sowhatisnormal.co.uk/learning
• Chis Abbott, "Writing the Visual" pages 31-46, in Silicon literacies : Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age, ed., Ilana Snyder , (TED)

Week Seven (Feb 17 & 19): Hate Speech, Bullying/Sexual Harassment, and other threats online. Balancing safety and independence in young people's access to online content in classrooms, libraries, and at home                   

Listen/View::

• Video Critiquing Anti-sexting Advertisement
• Amy Hasinoff's Sexting Blog

Optional Further Reading:

• danah boyd et al, "Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the ‘Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’"
•  Richard Chalfen, "'It's only a picture': Sexting, “Smutty” Snapshots, and Felony Charges" (TED)
• Rajagopal, "Digital Representation: Racism on the World Wide Web"
• Paul T. Jaeger and Charles R. McClure "Potential legal challenges to the application of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in Public Libraries: Strategies and issues" in First Mondays online: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/jaeger/

Week Eight (Feb 24 & 26): Digital Distractions: Games, play and learning

Discuss your lesson plan prototype with HTMMA student focus groups during site visits.

Listen/View: (TBA)

Optional Reading:

• Now You See It, "Chapter 5: The Epic Win" (pp132-161)
• Ito and Horst, "Neopets, and Neo Economies: Emergent Regimes of Value in Kids Peer-to-Peer Networks"
• Cornelia Brunner, Dorothy Bennett, and Margaret Honey, "Girl Games and Technological Desire," chapter 3 in Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat. available online through Roger when on campus or via web proxy. http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262032589

Week Nine (March 3 & 5): Intellectual property, plagiarism, collaboration, and the public good

Discuss lesson plans with HTMMA student focus groups during site visits.

Listen/View:

• "Common Sense Media’s Steyer, Reporters on Data, Privacy" http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/Bloomberg_EDU/v14KSPkR9iWw.mp3
• "Using the Creative Commons to make Stuff" a Plugs, Play, Pedagogy Podcast http://writingcommons.org/about/blog/categories/listings/podcast

Optional Reading:

• Lankshear and Knobel, "Digital Literacy and the Law: Remixing Elements of Lawrence Lessig’s Ideal of “Free Culture'" in Lankshear and Knobel, Digital Literacies, p 279-306 (TED)
• Rebecca Moore Howard, "Forget About Policing Plagiarism. Just Teach."
• Bowrey and Rimmer, "Rip, Mix, Burn"

Week Ten (March 10 & 12): Learning with Social Network Media

[No Site Visits this week]

Completed lesson plans and write-ups due. Presentations of Lesson Plans: Meeting locations to be anounced (UCSD or HTMMA).

Listen/View::

• Learning From Youtube: An Interview with Alex Juhasz
• Explore Alex Juasz's Interactive Book: Learning From YouTube

Optional Further Reading:

• Viera Lorencova, "YouTube Dilemmas: The Appropriation of User-Generated Online Videos in Teaching and Learning"
• Lankshear and Knobel, "Digital Literacy and Participation in Online Social Networking Spaces" in Digital Literacies

Finals Week: Lesson Plans with any revisions due Thursday, March 19, 11:30am - 2:30 pm