focused on rethinking education. Features researchers such as James Gee, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen

From the site: "The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically."

Cathy Davidson's course posted on HASTAC

More Mike Wesch. If you haven't seen this talk he gave to the library of congress, you should. Great model for inquiry based work with students.

From the description: "It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation, and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and "the future," this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media "mediate" our culture."

Update to Wesch's original video "A Vision of Students Today." Made up of student produced films about what it means to be "a student today."

Great rant against the "dogooders" of literacy campaigns. From the article "So, every day "we," led by politicians of dubious education and intentions, and by self-enriching dogooders like Pam Allyn, label children as pathologically diseased because their brains don't work exactly like "our" brains. And then, we administer daily doses of humiliation because we somehow forget that someone like Socrates managed to know a whole hell of a lot without being "literate" at all - and, in fact - opposing literacy in every form."

Okay, so I went to post this, and then saw that Karissa beat me to it... ;-)

One of my favorite conferences is in SF this year, March 1-3. I'll most likely attend Friday and Saturday. You might consider going for one or two days to get a feel for current trends in digital learning and literacy. From the site: "The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine."

tool for creating collaborative portfolios

From the article: "The idea of an "open source curriculum" has until now seemed entirely at odds with the political standardization and prescription of the curriculum. Are there any signs that curriculum will catch up with the decentered open source potential of digital media, and what are the political implications?"

From the article: "We have the content and we have the skills to build our own GarageBand for education."

Bibliographies for composition research threads

Resources for research and teaching in composition