Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 17, 2010, 11:29 AM

ISIS 120S-01, English 173S-05: This is Your Brain on the Internet (HASTAC Tag 1SIS 120)

This is Your Brain on the Internet is an experimental, innovative, adventurous, non-traditional, multidisciplinary, student-led, contract- and peer-evaluated course open to any student fascinated by how we come to know the world and how we may or may not know the world differently in the Information Age.  It is not for the faint of heart.  If you are not up for what John Seely Brown calls thinkering (thinking while doing, project-based thinking, evolving and progressive thinking), this is not a course for you.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 08, 2008, 07:14 AM
When we launch our new HASTAC website, we will have a space where we can invite anyone and everyone teaching a HASTAC-y course to launch syllabi. I put up my course description for ISIS 120, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet" earlier and have been working with the research assistant, teaching assistant, and teaching apprentice (Patrick, Katy, and Lindsey) this semester to get this closer to finished. Here's the syllabus in progress for anyone who might be interested in seeing work in progress. That, after all, is the HASTAC way. We're also delighted for feedback. Next up: working in the social networking affordances into the structure of the class. Facebook? Or as a Facebook friend suggested this morning: Google Friend Connect? That is the question. Even now, with the clunky affordances of our ancient HASTAC site, I hope others out there will post their syllabi and even their syllabi-in-progress so we can all learn together!

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 28, 2008, 08:54 AM
My 7 1/2 foot long Eames Elliptical Table, popularly known as the Surfboard Table, is filling up with (color-coded) ideas, writing, drafts of chapters . . . here's an ongoing syllabus of some of my favorite reading on the fine art of knowing and mini-reviews of books by Hawkins, Nisbett, and Wolf.