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Learning from Failure: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part II

Learning from Failure: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part II Blog Image

Professor Anne Balsamo has been collaborating with Professor Alexandra Juhasz and a group of more than one hundred feminist scholars to pilot a new kind of online course devoted to feminist dialogues on technology.… more

Bodies in Classrooms: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part I

Bodies in Classrooms: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part I Blog Image

Next year, over a hundred feminist scholars are slated to teach a new kind of online course—the first “MDCLE” or “massively distributed collaborative learning experiment”—tentatively titled “Feminist Dialogues on Technology."  Drawing on the model of the “MOOC,” or the massively open online course, like the artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction courses at Stanford that have enrolled tens of thousands of students, this venture is also aimed at a v… more

From Theory to Design: Exploring the Power & Potential of ‘Connected Learning’, Part One

Exploring the Power & Potential of ‘Connected Learning’, Part One Blog Image

This summer I attended summer school…well kind of.  For three weeks in June I worked with a great team to implement a digital media and design project with high school students.  We followed that project with a two-week game design camp in July at the University of Texas with middle school students.  Both projects are what you might call ‘connected learning’ design pilots.  What exactly is that?  The goal of each project was to put into action some of the ideas th… more