Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Introduction to Experiments in Feminist Learning

A one-time unique experimental course for undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and all! Customizable for level, credit, schedule, forms of presence! Contact Katie King (katking@umd.edu) for details! 



first thing to do! SIGN UP FOR the Davidson MOOC starting 27 January that will be one anchor of the course across the country, link here: 
https://www.coursera.org/course/highered?utm_classid=971553&utm_nottype=class.welcome.before&utm_notid=-1&utm_linknum=7

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Our first week or two: come to either class time as is convenient to participate in designing our version of the course here at UMD and to customize your participation. Come to • WDS 0104 Tu at 4-6:30 pm or to • SYM 0216 W 1-3:30 pm. (You are welcome to come to both!) Be sure to sign up for the MOOC, look over this website, and examine the PRELIMINARY syllabus: this is a discussion document to be altered for our various uses. (See Your Field Notes tab for Field Notes assignment, and scroll down to end to find and consider our preliminary syllabus.) 

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See MOOC site for all materials too: some available online, and also ordered at UMD Bookstore:

Readings (from the MOOC site):

There will be specific “readings”--articles, blog posts, websites, videos, and other resources--suggested for each lecture. The main “texts” for this course will be:
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connection tools for iPhone and iPad: 

Coursera on the App Store on iTunes

Coursistant - iPad app for Coursera & Udacity

On Twitter: #FutureEd
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HASTACFutureEd
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Davidson's blogsite: What is a MOOC? http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2012/08/13/what-mooc

See Davidson's article at Inside Higher Ed: "It's not a MOOC, It's a Movement!": http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/its-not-mooc-its-movement#.UrL2EYWpT-4.facebook

Davidson on Rethinking Education on YouTube:




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EXCITING INTERACTIONS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN! JOIN THE DISCUSSION STARTED, HERE IN THIS VIDEO! 

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Q&A with Professor Christopher Newfield
January 22, 2014

Here are the questions that the students in the Duke/Stanford/University of California at Santa Barbara classes asked before the Google Hangout with Professor Christopher Newfield (UCSB).   You can watch this Google Hang Out on YouTube:  online

Reading:
Newfield, Christopher. Unmaking the Public University:  The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class. Harvard University Press. 2011. Print.   9780674060364  

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Resources on Critical Making: an approach to new learning processes and ecologies! http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/mla14-critical-making/critical-making/

Know about Play as Inquiry? check out this alternate realty game here! http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/gamechanger/portfolios/play-as-inquiry/


Katie's students in the Games and Virtual Worlds class playing too: see pics here


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Steve Berg's Oscelot Scholars sites, the conversations have already begun there too!: 
=for discussions: http://ocelotscholars.org/discussions.html  
=for publications: http://ocelotscholars.org/index.html  

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#FutureEd in Clouds: University, Humanities, and MOOCs



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