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Schedule of Readings and Assignments

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Date/Projects Activities
(1) Jan 16, 18

Introduction
Course goals: See possible course units

(2) Jan 23
Jan 25: The catalog as portal to the internet

History 1
Choose projects and project teams

(3) Jan 30
Feb 1: Distributed Knowledge workshop
P1-Submit a proposal for your project
(4) Feb 6, 8

History 2
How does your project relate to literacy in the information age?
Writing artifacts

(5) Feb 13, 15

History of US schools
P2-Build an annotated bibliography

(6) Feb 20, 22

Diagram the new literacies
Du Jianxia: Digital divide
Learning Technologies 2: History

(7) Feb 27, Mar 1

Twenty-first century literacy
Access 1
Changes in access (jigsaw)

(8) Mar 6, 8 Privacy 1
--- Mar 10-18 Spring Break
(9) Mar 20, 22 P3-Develop an outline
plan for project presentations: Mar 27, 29, Apr 3
Credibility 1
(10) Mar 27, 29 Mar 27: Westley Field: design and development of online communities
P4-in-class presentations
(11) Apr 3, 5 Apr 3: P4-in-class presentation
Apr 5: Loriene Roy: "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything"
(12) Apr 10, 12 Jenny Robins:
What is a collaboratory? How can it function as a boundary object for different communities?
What is the role of the mediator in a collaboratory?
Inquiry Page
(13) Apr 17, 19 P5-Submit your final report
Apr 17: Meet with Geof Bowker's class at UCSD via video conference; class at 4:30 p.m. on April 17; our class will be held 508 South 6th St. (between Springfield and Healey); the building is also known as the Oil Chemistry Building.

David Noble, 'Digital Diploma Mills: the Automation of Higher Education' (available at http://www.communication.ucsd.edu/dl/ddm1.html or find another copy on the web)

John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, 'Universities in the Digital Age' http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/members/brown/papers/university.html

Langdon Winner on the automatic professor: http://www.rpi.edu/~winner/apm1.html

Optional:
University of Illinois Teaching at an Internet Distance Seminar, 1999 (at http://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu/tid/report/)
http://www.mnvu.org/
For more Noble, go to: http://www.communication.ucsd.edu/dl/
and http://www.chronicle.com/free/v46/i30/30a00101.htm and http://www.chronicle.com/colloquylive/transcripts/2000/03/20000330noble.htm.

(14) Apr 24, 26
(15) May 1 Closing-opening

Reflection paper due



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