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boonebgorges commented on the blog post Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?
While I’m taking notes here in this comments section, here’s a brief but potentially helpful articulation of “21st century literacies” from NCTE: http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/21stcentdefinition
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boonebgorges commented on the blog post Taking collaboration to the online environment
Sounds like a great project. I’m the lead developer for an online collaboration project at the City University of New York, called the CUNY Academic Commons. The purpose of our site, much like yours, is to provide a space that allows for and encourages communication and collaboration between people who have common interests [...]
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boonebgorges commented on the blog post Social Media, Creativity and Promotion
What a cool topic. I took a graduate course in philosophical aesthetics in which we discussed the idea that artistic merit is fundamentally linked to a particular community or “art world”, such that what it means to be (good) art is simply to be accepted as such by a certain group of individuals. You seem [...]
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boonebgorges commented on the blog post Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?
Ooh, and one more thing: A piece in the NYT yesterday made me think that maybe an idea like mine is picking up steam: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/computer-science-education-its-not-shop-class/. The piece is surprisingly nuanced, and it gives some good references for work (like Snow’s The Two Cultures) that might serve as a nice theoretical framework for a digital literacy [...]
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boonebgorges commented on the blog post Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?
Thanks so much for the feedback. My proposal is very much about brainstorming a provocative topic, so I’m very happy to hear your ideas about how to expand, correct, and hone the central idea.
A theme that I detect running through both Erin’s and Doug’s comments is that the kinds of skills I’m pushing here are [...]8 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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boonebgorges wrote a new blog post: Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum: Is it desirable? Is it possible?
I spent a few years as a graduate fellow in a Writing Across the Curriculum program, and in my current full-time position as an instructional technologist I continue to collaborate frequently with WAC. In the time I’ve spent in close contact with the WAC program, I’ve come to find great value in some of [...]
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