Talking about homecoming for his house. T-shirts as sign of passion, embodied history. Hunter S. Johnson
Sports Death (like “carpe diem” w/skull (Thompson T-shirt that’s famous). Remixed it to celebrate Henry’s last year-14 years. Sign can be scary w/o knowledge but if you engage with them about it you can find out a lot underneath thiat [...]
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Michele Honeyford from UIndiana working w/Becky Rupert from Aurora Alerntative HS and Rafi from Global Kds working w/ guy form SOmerville
Why Wikipedia: embodies participatory culture (all must believe htey are
Rheingold: “Wikis allow for collaboartive comms that can share knowledge nad ideas w” low tech. barrier
Contested in classroom spaces so brings otgther ?s about content, authority, [...]
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Worked w/Dianne ? to integrate Zooey’s Room (http://www.zoeysroom.com/) into classroom (particularly Fail & Fail Often module from Learning Library) at Esperanza Academy-all girls middle school in Lawrence MA. Zooey’s Room is STEM & media class in school
ZR is online comm and offline after school program; girls learned better in group collab environment so ed site
Begun [...]
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Overview:
Assessment & testing as participation (treat as discourses)
Multiple levels of assessment & feedback (align through immediate, close & proximal activity)
Standards & skills as formalisms (must enlist b4 enlisting appropriately or correctly)
Close-level reflection guidelines
Rationale: Participatory assessment
Teaching to the test is as useful as the tests are meaningful (NCLB showed external tests aren’t meaningful for teachers); bigger [...]
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First session (hashtag #nml09)
Participatory culture
Low barriers for engagement
Strong support for sharing creations w/others
Members believe contributions matter (Classroom 2.0)
Care about others’ opinions of self and work
Project NML
Learning Library (launch today)
TSG Reading (strategy guides)
TSG Mapping (strategy guides)
Project Good Play
Share and engage with above (prof dev, case studies, and working w/amterials above)
NML
Judgment
Negotiation (entering into different spaces w/different norms)
appropriation [...]
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