TeachingComp

Haven't read all of these articles, but the few I skimmed looked like really good resources for potential readings for students. Specifically geared at the "new" writing students

I used several of these readings in my syllabus. They are really neat!

I'm getting really excited about this notion of the looking-glass self. I think it can play in really nicely with all those meme pictures going around with different views of how a person perceives his/her actions being viewed by different persons/groups (woah)

This video is a teacher's description of exactly the kind of class we are talking about.

Relates well to the article on math participation by Solomon

awesome "gaming" learning, in the "real world" and the kid is too cute! :)

Really awesome student project for an art class, but it seems like a great visual of another form of composition :)

Very cool classroom design modeled on apple stores and coffee shops

Never bad to reflect...

Manifesto about transforming education. 

Not really relevant to teaching comp, but pretty relevant to this crazy modern life I think

The Langdon 300 chairs as a "futuristic" simulation on youtube. Chico State is so progressive. :p

A look at Finland's education system, and what makes it work. All thought-provoking stuff, though I think it can't be forgotten that our population is much larger than theirs.

How do you transform factory era school systems so that they better serve the needs of an information age society? Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents give it a go.

A blog post in which a teacher details the "gamification" of his classroom. It's an interesting read, although I'm not sure it's really what Gee has in mind, nor am I sure Daniel Pink ("Drive") would approve.

focused on rethinking education. Features researchers such as James Gee, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen

From the site: "The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically."

Cathy Davidson's course posted on HASTAC

More Mike Wesch. If you haven't seen this talk he gave to the library of congress, you should. Great model for inquiry based work with students.

From the description: "It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation, and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and "the future," this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media "mediate" our culture."

Update to Wesch's original video "A Vision of Students Today." Made up of student produced films about what it means to be "a student today."