COMT 109 Digital Media Pedagogy   Brian Goldfarb, Winter 2010   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 5 & 7):  Introduction

[Site visits begin on Thursday, Jan 7, please arrive at 12pm for orientation at
High Tech Middle Media Arts--see the resources page for site description and directions]   

• Course overview: scope and requirements
• Discuss Site Visits at HTMMA: Sign up for school site times
• Weekly journals on WebCT
• Lab: Introduction to Flash-prep for working at HTMMA

Week Two (Jan 12 & 14): New Literacies?

Reading:

• Lankshear and Knobel, "Introduction" in Digital Literacies—Concepts, Policies and Practices p1-15
• Read about Socartic Seminars in schools. Some sites: Journey to Excellence, Using Socratic Seminars,

Further reading:

• Buckingham, "Defining Digital Literacy: What Do Young People Need to Know About Digital Media?" in Digital Literacies p73-90
• Lankshear and Knobel, "Do We Have Your Attention?" http://everydayliteracies.net/attention.html
• J.L. Lemke "Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings and Media" http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jaylemke/reinking.htm
• lana Snyder, "Silicon Literacies" pages 3-12, and, "Communication, Imagination, Critiques" pages 173-183 in Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age, ed., Ilana Snyder , (e-reserves)

Lab: Introduction to Flash in prep for HTMMA interactive paintings project.

Week Three (Jan 19 & 21): Multimedia pedagogies

lReading:

• Brian Goldfarb, Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom, "Introduction," pages1-22  (e-reserves)

Week Four (Jan 26 & 28): Youth Culture and New Media Practices

Reading:

• Brian Goldfarb, Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom, "Chapter 4: Peer Education and Interactivity" pages107-139 (e-reserves)
• Erstad, " Trajectories of Remixing: Digital Literacies, Media Production, and Schooling" in Digital Literacies, p177-202 (part of same pdf linked to syllabus for week 2)

 Further reading:

• Joseph Tobin, "An American Otaku" , pages 106-127, Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia, edited by Julian Sefton-Green (e-reserves)
• Erstad, Gilje and de Lange "Re-mixing Multimodal Resources"
• Judith Williamson, "Engaging Resistant Writers Through Zines in the Classroom" http://www.missouri.edu/~rhetnet/judyw_zines.htm

Week Five (Feb 2 & 4 ): Digital geographies: the "digital divide" and the world of the Web       

Reading:

• Mark Warschauer, "Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide" http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/967/8884
• Kraemer, Dedrick, and Prakulsharma "One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs Reality"
• Look at OLPC project http://laptop.org/

Further reading :

•  Luyt, "Who Benefits From the Digital Divide"
• Mark Warschauer, "Languages.com: The Internet and Linguistic Pluralism" http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/markw/languages.html

Week Six (Feb 9 & 11): 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 16 & 18): 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/
• Rajagopal, "Digital Representation: Racisim on the World Wide Web"
• Internet Filtering Alternatives: http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/jwbrown3/EPS%20313/filter/alternatives.htm

  Further reading :

•  Richard Chalfen, "'It's only a picture': Sexting, “Smutty” Snapshots, and Felony Charges"

Week Eight (Feb 23 & 25): 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
• Julian McDougall, "What do we learn in Smethwick Village? Computer games, media learning
  and discursive confusion"
• Ito and Horst, "Neopoints, and Neo Economies: Emergent Regimes of Value in Kids Peer-to-Peer Networks"

Further Reading:

• 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).
• Catherine Beavis, "Reading, Writing and Role-playing Computer Games" 45-61 in Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age, ed., Ilana Snyder , (e-reserves)

Week Nine (March 1 & 3): Intellectual property, plagiarism, collaboration, and the public good

Reading:

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

Further Reading:

• Bowrey and Rimmer, "Rip, Mix, Burn"

Week Ten (March 8 & 10):Learning with Social Network Media

Reading:

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

Finals Week (March 14-17): FINAL PAPER (take home exam) Due on March 17

Additional Topics:

• OpenSource Software and Education.
  • Hepburn, "Seeking an Educational Commons"
• Learning in/about Private and Public Digital Space