COMT 109 Digital Media Pedagogy   Brian Goldfarb, Winter 2008   Dept of Communication, UCSD Overview Meetings Resources

Course Schedule:

Note: Readings are due before the class. Readings are 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 8):  Introduction

[Torrey Pines Elementary School site visits begin on Wed, Jan 9, please arrive at noon for orientation;
High Tech Middle Media Arts site visits begin on Wed, Jan 9;
Museum Charter School begin on Jan 22]   

• Course overview: scope and requirements
• Sign up for school sites
• Discussion: what is new media and what is its relation to learning?
• Set up twiki accounts: http://twiki.ucsd.edu
• Consider OLPC project http://laptop.org/

Week Two (Jan 15): Multimedia pedagogies

Reading:

Week Three (Jan 22): Youth Culture and New Media.

New Wiki: http://comt109.wikidot.com/

Reading:

• Brian Goldfarb, Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom, "Chapter 4: Peer education and Interactivity" pages107-139 (e-reserves)
• Joseph Tobin, "An American Otaku" , pages 106-127, Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia, edited by Julian Sefton-Green (e-reserves)

• Judith Williamson, "Engaging Resistant Writers Through Zines in the Classroom" http://www.missouri.edu/~rhetnet/judyw_zines.html

Week Four (Jan 29): New literacies?

Reading:

  Further reading:

Week Five (Feb 5): Digital geographies: the "digital divide" and the world of the Web       

DUE: Lesson Plan and Learning Objectives.

Reading:

Week Six (Feb 12): Universal access: visuality, [dis]ability  and digital learning

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
• Chis Abbott, "Writing the Visual" pages 31-46, in Silicon literacies : Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age, ed., Ilana Snyder , (e-reserves)

Week Seven (Feb 19): Balancing safety and independence in learning: negotiating control and monitoring access to content in classrooms, libraries and at home                   

Reading:

• 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/
• Internet Filtering Alternatives: http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/jwbrown3/EPS%20313/filter/alternatives.htm
• Censoring the Web (Audio CD and Book produced in conjunction with Kathryn Kolbert and Zak Mettger, Censoring The Web: Justice Talking from NPR) available from film/video reserves.

Week Eight (Feb 26): Games, play and learning

Reading:

• 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 )
• Justine Cassell "Story Telling as a Nexus for Change in the Relationship between Gender and Technology" Chapter 13 in Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat (available online to through Roger when on campus or via web proxy).

Week Nine (March 4): Plagiarism or collaboration: research and authorship in the digital library

• Rebecca Moore Howard, "Forget About Policing Plagiarism. Just Teach."

Week Ten (March 11): Technology in community-based learning centers

Reading:

• Antonia Stone, "Learning to Exercise Power: Computers and Community Development," in Education, Technology, Power: Educational Computing as A Social Practice (187-199), ed Hank Bromley and Michael Apple (e-reserves).

 

Finals Week (March 18): FINAL PAPER (take home exam) DUE on March 18rd