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Here's a course description for a "Twenty-First Century Literacies" class I will be teaching in Spring 2010. This is for students who are not (yet) English majors. But a different version will also be the gateway course for our proposed new Master's in Knowledge and Networks that we will be posting on Comment Press next month for feedback.

Mike Wesch, professor at Kansas State, on teaching with technology and 21st C Learning.

Aired on PBS in 2011. Highlights innovations in teaching and learning related to Digital Literacies. Also introduces you to some of the key researchers in digital culture and literacy: Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, James Gee, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen

Resource for teachers related to teaching with digital tools platforms

"When I think about the 'ethics and responsibilities of the 21st century classroom,' I think not only about our ethical responsibilities toward students but about our ethical responsibilities toward teachers.

James Gee discusses innovations in assessment

From the site: "This is a rough DRAFT of a doctoral course I will be offering in Spring 2013 in our new Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge. All the work in that course will have a public component... Since many Ph.D. students today will be teaching in classrooms with hundreds of students and with some hybrid online component, one focus of this course is how to see those situations as opportunities for collective learning, rather than simply "mills" for replicating tired, outmoded Industrial-age ideas."

From Davidson: "I don't have the metrics, but I'll stake my professional reputation on the following statement: In the last one or two years, there has been a seachange in how even the most traditional academic, nonprofit, or corporation values, respects, and "counts" relevant, professional online publication and interactivity."

Background/Context: New information technologies make information available just-in-time and on demand and are reshaping how we interact with information, but schools remain in a print-based culture, and a growing number of students are disaffiliating from traditional school. New methods of instruction are needed that are suited to the digital age.

"It's easy to be depressed about the state of our educational system. Progress is often trapped in a political holy war between over-testing, which dulls curiosity and boil the humanity away from learning (the most human of endeavors) and those who fear any accountability that might demonstrate the incompetence of a policy, dogma, curriculum, or educator."

Great video playlist focused on games and learning

"The term 'digital divide' has long been used to describe the gap between those with access to communications technology and those without-applying to both home computer ownership as well as the delivery of home broadband access, which is still an issue. More recently, the term has referred to the gap in the type of engagement with the digital world. It has come to mean the divide between those who use technology to learn and create and those who use it more for entertainment or staying up to date on social networking sites. It might easily be summed up as the gap between creators and consumers."