Saving Worlds

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Thursday 5 Sept – NO CLASS, ROSH HASHANAH

BEFORE THE NEXT CLASS: Watch McGonigal’s TED talk embedded on the class website on the <Media> tab. READ a chapter you choose from either McGonigal or Zandt, as well as Chap 2 from Transforming Scholarship, on Claiming Your Education.

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Tuesday 10 Sept – Broken Realities? Learning & action

·       Berger & Radeloff, Ch2

·       Choose a chapter from either Zandt or McGonigal, depending on which you will read for class

·       the McGonigal TED video on the class website on <Media> tab

What do Berger, Radeloff, McGonigal, and have to tell us about how action & learning & even happiness intermingle? What do you think this has to do with justice and feminisms? What games have you played in your life? Most recently? What issues of social justice have you most connected with? Why?

Thursday 12 Sept – Prototyping: a Platforms poster

·       How to make cognitively challenging posters, look at Hunter slideshow, link tab <Assignments>

·       How to keep your logbook: template online for download, see <Info> tab

·       WHO WILL YOU PARTNER WITH FOR THE SEMESTER? KEEPING RECORDS 

·       WHAT TO BRING TO CLASS: class platforms list and pics and notes

Our first “flipping the classroom” Thursday! You MUST BE PREPARED so we can spend our time MAKING THINGS! This one is all about the platforms, devices, and infrastructures we use, mostly unconsciously. You say you write on your computer, but what does writing mean? You SEARCH how? You DRAFT on a phone? You PRINT OUT from Google docs? On a PRINTER at home, school, work, where? You GAME HOW? Phone? Xbox? Laptop? Browser? Facebook? BRING IN NOTES AND PICS TO CREATE A POSTER THAT SHOWS HOW YOU USE PLATFORMS, DEVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURES! Bring in as print outs so we can literally cut and paste and color them on poster board in class. Bring in crafty tools and stuff.

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Which did you choose, McGonigal or Zandt? and why the chapter you picked in particular? How do you analyze the back covers of each book? What do they tell us? Analytically connect the chapter you read with the cover. How does one do that?

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Notice that I moved what was here for the first day to the Info tab! That now has the Welcome to the class, discussion of class organization, and books there for your easy inspection. 

FULL SYLLABUS IN PDF 

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