Hi, Everyone,
While the list is in a self-promotion vein, I'll be giving the Friday morning featured session, aimed mostly toward the SEHS audience--

Heidi
The Ethics of Internet Access: Why National Policy Matters to Teachers and Students

The Internet and the ways in which we communicate, connect, and create online are in jeopardy. Current and proposed national policies that favor corporate and government control of information fail to preserve principles of net neutrality and privacy, further limiting our access to and use of digital technologies. Using rhetorical and critical frames, Heidi McKee will discuss why these Internet policies matter to teachers, and what we in our roles as teachers, researchers, and citizens may do to craft a different, more equitable future.


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Subject: Digital Expo Keynote

Hey all,

Just one more reminder that I'm giving the opening keynote for the
2011 Digital Expo (5:30pm, in 322 McGuffey Hall).  Here's a title and
a blurb, and I hope to see some of you there!

"A Game Is Not A Tool: Forwarding an Ecological Perspective of Digital
Media and Learning"

The growing field of digital media and learning research has already
contributed significantly to our understanding of the ways that youth
and adults alike find engage with digital media (e.g., Ito, et al,
2009).  In this presentation, I forward an "ecological perspective" (a
la Jenkins, et al, 2009), and argue that critical educational research
develop further understandings of the lived experiences of youth and
adults with digital media.  In particular, recent trends toward
"gamification" and the instrumental use of games to teach limited
instructional content are critiqued as insufficient to capture the
learning potential of these media.  In contrast, I present an emphasis
on understanding immersion within informal learning environments
outside of classrooms, presenting provocative case studies of the
affinity spaces (Gee, 2004; Hayes and Duncan, in press) that typify
contemporary digital culture.

Best,

--sean
Sean C. Duncan
   Armstrong Professor of Interactive Media Studies
   Assistant Professor, School of Education, Health, and Society &
   Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies
   Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
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