This page features course descriptions for the most recent ITP courses offered.
Fall 2010
GC ITP Core 1
Thursdays, 6:30 - 8:30PM, GC 6496
Instructors: Steve Brier email, Michael Mandiberg email
Course Description:
This is the initial core course in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy certificate program. We will examine the economic, social, and intellectual history of technological design and use in general, and of interactive media in particular. Our focus is also on the mutual shaping of technology and teaching and learning—how people and ideas have shaped these (largely) classroom interactions in the past, and how we are now reshaping them in the present. By examining the use and design of technologies inside and outside of the classroom, we are, of course, also reflecting on what it means to be human in a world increasingly dominated and controlled by interactive technologies.
The course also explores the history and theory of digital media, including hypertext and multimedia, highlighting the theoretical and practical possibilities for research, reading, writing, presentation, interaction, and play. We are particularly interested in the possibilities that new, nonlinear, digital tools have opened up for teaching and research.
Students will write two papers: an interim essay focused on the readings in the early part of the course (due 10/14) and a more complete research paper linking selected readings with aspects of teaching and learning in one’s area of academic interest (due12/16). We will provide more complete information about these papers during the semester.
We will be using a course blog on the CUNY Academic Commons where we will extend discussions about the reading and post additional materials.
We will also be asking each student to lead at least one in-class discussion and/or online discussion focused on the readings and online materials during the course of the semester.
NOTE: We ask that you watch the film ''Blade Runner'' (preferably the 25th Anniversary "Final Cut" edition on DVD from 2007), which can be purchased on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Final-Two-Disc-Special/dp/B000UD0ESA) or borrowed from Netflix, as well as read the short Phillip K. Dick novel that inspired it (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) prior to our first class meeting on August 27.
Spring 2010
GC ITP Core 2
Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:30PM, GC 4419
Instructors: Steve Brier email, Matt Gold email
This second core course in the ITP certificate program introduces students to IT in the classroom, focusing on pedagogy and technological innovation. The class combines historical and theoretical readings with hands-on introductions to instructional technology. We will consider recent trends in digital media such as open content, social networking, cloud computing, text mining, data visualization, content mashing, and mobile computing. Topics of discussion will include modes of learning within and outside of the classroom, divergent models of online course spaces and their implications for teaching and learning, the evolving nature of intellectual property in remix culture, privacy and security in the data cloud, geo-location and map-based tools, and th materiality of digital platforms, among other topics. The course employs an interdisciplinary approach to the application of digital media to classroom teaching and scholarly research and presentation.
Requirements:
Weekly discussion on blogs, discussion board, and twitter
Wiki Assignment
Zotero Bibliography Assignment
Assignment Assignment
Midterm Project
Final Project
Class Presentation
Regular participation in class discussions across the range of our online course spaces is essential. Some of our assignments, such as the Zotero Bibliography Assignment, will offer you the opportunity to work collaboratively as part of a group or as individuals; other assignments, such as the Wiki Assignment, will involve working collaboratively with our class as a whole to produce a shared resource. The “Assignment Assignment” project will ask you to create and annotate an assignment for a course in your discipline that utilizes some of the tools and concepts explored in this course. Our midterm and final projects will ask you to be begin to sketch out your ideas for your ITP Independent study. The final project must incorporate multimedia elements and must be presented online. Additional details on all of these assignments will be shared later in the semester. There will also be an emphasis throughout the course on online participation through various projects and weekly online discussions that will contribute to your final grade.
Fall 2009
ITCP Core 1 - History, Theory, and Practice of Interactive Media
Instructors: Joan Greenbaum email, Gerhard Joseph email
This ITP Core I seminar is an exploration through readings and activities to help us critically reflect on traditional views about technology, teaching and learning. The purpose of this introductory core course is to help understand the impact of technological change on past and current intellectual practices and methodologies in order to develop innovative teaching and learning strategies; and to think creatively about applying technologies in order to enhance active teaching, learning and research.
Possible mini projects and activities:
As in all academic work this seminar includes a research paper (see below), but since activity and project-based work is an important part of active learning, this course also involves activities and mini projects that could become small steps toward developing teaching, research and/or learning tools in the Core II course.
All activities and projects should engage and include selected readings on the syllabus and be applied to your area of interest in your academic field or in work beyond the academic world. Some examples might include:
• new or enhanced ideas for teaching a college course in a given field with some use of digital media
• ideas for research in an academic field or an interdisciplinary research project
• concepts for applying teaching and learning strategies in another area of interest (high schools, early education, after-school projects, academic administration, community groups, etc)
The mini project and paper you develop should use ideas, reading and activities from class as a point of departure for future work. Any and all active learning strategies and experimentation are encouraged. The sophistication of the final project will not be evaluated but the ideas behind it and how well it is communicated to the others will be part of the overall grade. You are not expected to digitally develop your project ideas this semester, but rather to write about them and to express them in some form of a multi-media presentation. Cooperative project development is encouraged; research papers should be written individually.
ITCP 89010: Independent Study
Prof. Brier | 3 credits
Permission of instructor required.
