I’ve been following with some interest, if not a little envy, Brian Lamb’s (@brlamb) and Scott Leslie’s (@sleslie) tweets about TTIX (teaching with technology ideas exchange #ttix), and I am just now taking the time to listen to a recording of Scott Leslie’s excellent presentation on ustream, “Open Educator as DJ.”
There are number of important points that Scott Leslie raises about the way we we, as educators, might swim in the “tsunami of information” available on line. As he puts it, the proliferation of information is not problem, but an opportunity. [click to continue…]
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
—W.B. Yeats “The Second Coming,” 1919.
My Emily Carr colleagues and I have be asked to come up with a new approach to teaching undergraduate English. After protracted debate among Critical and Cultural Studies faculty, Dr. Joy James and I agreed to undertake a pilot project to redesign English 101: Literature and Composition II (Poetry and Drama) for delivery in 200-student lecture format, as opposed to in small-group (20-25 student) seminars. This pilot project is scheduled to come online in Jan. 2010.
Because this new delivery model will involve a significant rethinking of English/Literary Studies in light of recent developments in digital media, educational technologies and social networking, I am proposing a series of blog posts with which to chronicle the process and research involved. This is the first in that series.
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Emily Carr Institute / HUMN 306 » post.human
Fall Semester 2008
This course examines the notion of that we have moved beyond humanism and now live in a post-human age. Focusing on research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, it examines cultural and critical theories about the intersections of technology and biology, and subsequent articulation of new identity formations based on the dissolutions and reconfigurations of class, ethnic, race, gender and sexual difference.
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