Course:Recurring Questions of Technology/Class Itineraries

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UBC/SFU Summer Institute


Friday, July 13th
George Grant’s Critique of Technology

Grant I: The First Task of Thought in Our Time
Grant II: Modernity, Technology, Nationality
Grant References



Thursday, July 12th
Digital Cultures/Prosthetic Mobilities: Politics, Public Knowledge, and Multimodal Literacies

***Please bring along a laptop to today's class. If you are unable to do so, please let me know.

Morning Session: Perspectives on Knowledge WEBSITE



Wednesday, July 11th
Virtual Education: Twenty-first Century Learning and Technological Literacies

Please visit the class BLOG for all information related to Wednesday's class



Tuesday, July 10th
Technology as Youth Culture – Rhetorics of Communication and Participation

Shared Links

Political Remix Video

Class PowerPoint

Brown Bag Questions PowerPoint



Monday, July 9th
Intellectual Properties of Learning and Technology

Class itinerary


1. Introduction

Assignments: KEYWORDS and OED
Wiki Entry: System
James Murray
OED typography


2. Intellectual Property

Statute of Anne, 1710
Creative Commons, 2001


3. Indexes and Discovery

Google Scholar, PubMed, MedlinePlus, ERIC, Fishbase


4. Development and Equity

Research4Life, Hinari, Agora, AJOL, Bioline


5. Open Educational Resources

Schools: Curriki, Merlot, CK12, Khan Academy,
National History Education Clearing House
Post-secondary: Connexions, Itunes U, Opencourseware, Open Yale Courses, Youtube.com/edu, Coursera, Udacity, MITx.


6. Public Archives and Encyclopedia

Nines, Darwin Correspondence Project, Mark Twain Papers & Project, Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy, Encyclopedia of Life, Wikipedia, Internet Archive, WikiPaintings.


7. Open, Participatory Science

DOAJ, Foldit, PLoS One,