Guerrilla Pedagogy
Information 2.0: Knowledge in the Digital Age - lecture series
Join us for an exciting presentation on technology and pedagogy with Dr. Matthew K. Gold, New York City College of Technology and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, October 16, 2009 : 9:30am - 12:00pm [Room E500]
Guerrilla Pedagogy: A Hit-and-Run Guide to Mobile, Open-Source, Aggregated Course Design; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internets
This presentation will consider the practical and theoretical implications of using the ethos of the open-source software movement as a guiding force for classroom pedagogy. Embracing the principles of open-source in the digital classroom involves distinct notions of openness, transparency, sharing, and student-centeredness that are, in many ways, anathema not just to corporate content management systems such as Blackboard, but also to deeply ingrained ideas concerning the role of higher educational institutions in public life. Responding critically and creatively to the possibilities opened up by new communications technologies can and should entail a reexamination of the assumptions regarding the ways in which students and teachers relate to course materials and to each other.
Presenter Biography
The first speaker in the Information 2.0 series is Dr. Matthew K. Gold an Assistant Professor of English at New York City College of Technology and a faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. His teaching and research interests center on the digital humanities, multimodal writing, open-source pedagogy, and new-media studies. Matt is Project Director of Looking for Whitman: The Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman, an experiment in online multi-campus pedagogy funded by two Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities. He is also Project Director of the CUNY Academic Commons, a new academic social network dedicated to building community across the 23 campuses in the City University of New York system. For more information on Dr. Gold's research and teaching, visit: http://mkgold.net/.
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