English 808: Technology & Literacy – Unit: Teaching Literacy with Technology

Dr. Gian Pagnucci

Teaching Digital Natives

• YouTube Video: Michael Wesch’s Vision of Students Today
  • Dr. Michael Wesch (Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography, 2008 U.S. Professor of the Year, Kansas State University)
  • Digital Ethnography (referred to in the video), but now relocated to: My Teaching Notebook
    
  • Video Music by Tyrad
• Marc Prensky
  • Article: Prensky, M. (2001) “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”
  • Wikipedia Entry: Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants
  • Prensky’s Book: “Don’t Bother Me Mom–I’m Learning!”
• Cyberpunk Manifesto
  • Freedom of Information
    • Google Books
  • Digital Divide
    • “A Short History of the Digital Divide” by Richard Rapaport
      
  • Cyborg 1.0
    • Kevin Warwick (MIT Professor)
      • Professor Cyborg
        
    • Boston Retinal Implant Project
• Other Videos about Digital Natives
  • Digital Learners YouTube Video: A Vision of K-12 Students Today
  • YouTube Video: [Re]Visions of Students Today (a racial critique)
  • YouTube Video: Ask Generation Y
  • YouTube Video: Through the Eyes of the Y’s

TechPedagogy

• Task: Creating a Literacy Education Vision Statement
  • Discuss whether your vision encompasses/addresses the concerns of the authors in the packet
• Guide: Technology Theories
• Guide: Names for Technology Pedagogies
• Guide: TechPedagogy Principles
  • YouTube Video: 21st Century Pedagogy
  • YouTube Video: Education 2.0 (A Possible Answer to Vision of Students Today)
  • Article: The New Pedagogy
  • Article: “[Bridging the digital divide] A Manifesto for Instructional Technology: Hyperpedagogy” by Jim Dwight & Jim Garrison
  • Article: “The Pedagogy of Imperfection” by Maha Bali
    
• Task: Teacher Vision Part 2
• Guide: The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning
  
• Discussion: Teaching Writing with Computers
• TechTool: WebQuests
• TechTool: Course Hero