Submitted by rik_hunter on Sep 18, 2009, 06:51 PM

This week I have the pleasure of speaking with, Annette Vee, a fellow doctoral candidate in English, in the PhD program in Composition and Rhetoric. Annette researches historical and conceptual connections between text and computer code and is defining the literacy of computer programming as "proceduracy." In her teaching, she has used blogs, wikis and podcasts to expand students' "available means" of expression. She was recently recognized for her excellence in teaching with technology at the 2009 Computers & Writing Conference where she was awarded the Kairos Teaching Award.

Submitted by FionaB on Sep 17, 2009, 06:14 PM

Conference at the University of Western Ontario: Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens. The conference addresses the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in practice, politics, policy, culture, and theoretical enquiry.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 26, 2009, 10:19 AM

I loved returning to teaching last year after several years in administration . . . except for the grading. I can't think of a more meaningless, superficial, cynical way to evaluate learning in a class on digital, collaborative, process-oriented online thinking than by assigning a grade. It turns learning (which should be a deep pleasure, setting up for a lifetime of curiosity) into a crass competition: how do I snag the highest grade for the least amount of work? There has to be a better way . . .

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 22, 2009, 11:19 AM

I've said before that we need to rethink everything about how we teach and how we learn, about the basic structures of all of our professions. Next Spring, I'm teaching our graduate "Research and Methods" course, typically the place where the most conventional, traditional "standards" of a profession are inculcated and reinforced. I believe that, given our declining numbers, this is the slow death of our profession and doom for our graduate students. So I volunteered to teach "Research and Methods" for a digital Age. Here's my first stab at a syllabus. I'm happy for comments.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 18, 2009, 06:59 AM
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, is available now for purchase or free download from MIT Press. This is an abridged version of our forthcoming book from MIT Press, The Future of Thinking.