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The World is Reading the Media
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A Compilation Analysis of ENG307 pedagogy through Friedman, Hobbs, and Richardson

Our exploration of the ENG307 curriculum has shown that
-Reading and writing has been redefined
-Cultural, political, social, and educational changes have impacted our new thinking
-The teacher to learner relationship has drastically altered
-We now can use a variety of computer applications as never before
-We can evaluate new media

Hobbs
enlarging the definition of texts to include “all the forms of symbolic expression that convey meaning from authors to readers.” (7)
“A specific print, digital, or visual text has features that influence the reading process as does the reading activity itself.” (8)
“to prepare students for a life “in a highly complex, media-rich, and technologically dynamic cultural environment.” (8)


Richardson
The internet has enhanced “our ability to easily publish content online.” (5)

Hobbs
“postmodern theorists believe that electronic imagery and digital media have become increasingly “central to the development of globalization.” (6)
theorists believe we need “broader definitions of knowledge, literacy, and pedagogy which include the study of the intertextuality of imageries, texts, icons, and artifacts of new information economies, of media and of popular culture.” (7)

Friedman
Competition in the global community: “Countries like India are now able to compete for global knowledge work as never before -- and that America had better get ready for this.” (7)
“A new milestone in human progress and a great opportunity for India and the world -- the fact that we had made our world flat!” (7)
“Globalization 3.0 makes it possible for so many more people to plug in and play, and you are going to see every color of the human rainbow take part.” (11)

Friedman
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 “tipped the balance of power across the world toward those advocating democratic, consensual, free-market-oriented governance, and away from those advocating authoritarian rule with centrally planned economies.”(51)
“Before 1989, you could have an Eastern policy or a Western policy, but it was hard to think about having a ‘global’ policy.” (53)

Richardson
Common citizens are now able to partake and willing to partake in business affairs:
“When Microsoft began offering up Weblog space to some of its developers last year, potential customers had an opportunity to not only read about the inner workings of the company, they had a chance to respond and participate.” (4)
“We are creating what author Douglas Rushkoff calls a “Society of Authorship” where every teacher and every student, every person with access will have the ability to contribute ideas and experiences to the larger body of knowledge that is the Internet.” (5)

Richardson
“Our ability to easily publish content online will force us to rethink the way we communicate with our constituents, the way we deliver our curriculum, and the expectations we have of our students.” (5)

Hobbs
Concord High School changes their curriculum name:
“We imagined a course called “Media/Communication” that would address nonfiction reading and writing, explore issues of media influence, examine advertising from a critical perspective, reflect and analyze visual approaches to the narrative, and encourage students to ‘read’ the media of their everyday life with a critical eye.” (27)

Richardson
“The read-write web makes teacher’s question themselves: “What needs to change about our curriculum when our students have the ability to reach audiences far beyond our classroom walls?” (5)
“Today’s students, of almost any age, are far ahead of their teachers in computer literacy.” (6)

Hobbs
“When learning is authentic, students are involved in creating complex real-world media messages.”

Richardson
“High-bandwidth Internet access and expanded computer memory and storage continue to grow, and developers are creating tools to publish text or photos or video or whatever else easily on the web.” (2)
“We’re in the midst of an explosion of technologies that will continue to remake the Web into the community space Berners-Lee originally envisioned.” (2)


Class projects
iweb, imovie, social bookmarking (library thing, 43 things, furl, del.icio.us, flickr), ilife, powerpoint, garageband, wikipedia, podcasts, Comiclife, webquests

-We have seen a multitude of pedagogies this semester
-Whether we believe it or not, we are influenced by the globalization of the flat world
-It is up to us to create a world reflective of these pedagogies in order to become active citizens in a changing global society

did you know? -- youtube video
Teen book video awards -- best teen-created video
Book talk podcasts from local school
Project Look Sharp in Ithaca
the machine is us/ing us -- youtube video
using technologies to redefine schooling -- podcast