In an article on new literacies in teacher education, Carmen Luke writes "Given the current drift toward media convergence, it is my contention that media, cultural, computer and technology studies can no longer be taught independently of one another" (Luke, 200:424). The premise of this course is that in actuality, media never have been seperable from curriculum "content"---although curriculum theory has largely overlooked that significant fact.

As a way to demonstrate this, we will trace a path through the history of educational ideas in and on curriculum, by making a series of stops at significant shifts in educational media, from oral recitation to cyberschooling, showing that and how cultural conceptions of the nature and value of "knowledge" have found very different shapes in school curriculum.

This course, then, will examine the educative possibilities for new and emergent digital media, asking whether and how what we know and how we know is reshaped, re-mediated and invariable altered by these technological affordances. We will primarily focus on the design, development and practical implementation of digital technologies for education and in doing so we will more fully explore "techne", that is technologies as fundamentally constructive rather than receptive media for consumption.

890-4 is held on Tuesdays from 4:30pm to 8:30pm in SUR 3040.

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