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ENGL-452-01 Virtual Designs
Spring only
Virtual Designs: Cultural Memory and the New Ecology of Learning
This seminar will explore the intersection of three areas: learning and pedagogy, emerging digital media and social networking tools, and cultural memory, especially focused on mass trauma and recovery. The core activity of the seminar will revolve around Project Rebirth (http://projectrebirth.org), a documentary film, film archive, and Web-based educational initiative on survivors and recovery from events of 9/11. As a group, we will engage in a set of collaborative digital authoring projects driven by the central problem of constructing an interdisciplinary virtual learning environment related to comprehending, interpreting, and recovering from mass trauma. The larger intellectual problem with which we will be grappling is how emergent “participatory” environments on the Internet (interactive media and social networking tools) contribute to a new ecology of learning in our culture and how we might design formal and informal educational resources that are responsive to this new ecology. By semester’s end, as a group, we will have created model resources that will become public and long-term features of the Project Rebirth Learning Collaboratory, and perhaps also contribute to the educational materials for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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Spring '10:
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