COMM 120P Digital Media Pedagogy   Brian Goldfarb, FALL 2016   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 Zero (Sept 22):  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
  [Site visits begin on Tuesday, September 27--see the resources page for site description and directions]   

Week One (Sept 27 & 29):  Introduction

• Tuesday (Meet at HTMMA) Discuss HTMMA and Charter Schools and HTHMA students' Prime Directive project

Read/View:

• HTHMA Class assignment
• The ethical principles of Star Trek’s Prime Directive: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Prime_Directive and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive
• Programming language "Processing", which students will be using to develop their projects. If any of you are inclined and would like to learn the program you can begin to explore it through these tutorials.

Resources:

• 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/

 

• Thursday (meet at UCSD) 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

Week Two (Oct 4 & 6): Standards vs Standardization: challenges of assessment       

Listen/View:

• Report on a Video of an Incident at Success Academy in NYC. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/nyregion/success-academy-teacher-rips-up-student-paper.html?_r=0
• The Unintended Consequences of Taking a Hard Line on School Discipline http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/us/the-unintended-consequences-of-taking-a-hard-line-on-school-discipline.html?_r=0

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 Three (Oct 11 & 13): Transforming the Classroom and Remixing the Curriculum

Listen/View:

• RSA Animate, "Licensed to Create": http://youtu.be/MflATneJUa0
• TBA

 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 Four (Oct 18 & 20): Multimedia pedagogies

Learning Activity Project Topic Proposal Due Wed, Oct 19 at 6 pm on our Discussion Forum TED
(Guidelines: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~bgoldfarb/comm120p-f16/Learning_Activity_Guidelines.html)

Listen/View:

• 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 Five (Oct 25 & 27): Universal Access: [Dis]ability  and Digital Learning

Listen/View:

• "Batman," episode 544 of This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/544/batman
• Universal Design for Schools Overview: https://youtu.be/500dhPNZfHg
• Look over the pages for
  • CAST: http://www.cast.org/our-work/about-udl.html
  • And their National Center On Universal Design for Learning: http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/whatisudl

Further Viewing (optional):

• Good Schools for All: When to Consider Special Ed
• Pushing Limits "Race and Disability": http://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/tag/podcast/

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 Six (Nov 1 & 3): 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 Seven (Nov 8 & 10): Digital Distractions: Games, play and learning

Listen/View:

• "Playful Teaching Manual" http://www.sad.ch/de/publikationen/13-playful-teaching-manual

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 Eight (Nov 15 & 17):

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

Week Nine ( Nov 22): 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 (Nov 29 & Dec 1): 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 Wednesday, Dec 7, 11:30am - 2:30 pm