CFP: HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition Competition Overview: Bringing together badge content and program providers, designers and technologists - The "Badges for Lifelong Learning" Competition will gather leading organizations, learning and assessment specialists, designers and technologists to create and test working badge systems in the wild. - Together, competition participants will contribute to a robust badge ecosystem, where traditional and 21st century skills and achievements are inspired, recognized, translated across contexts, and displayed and managed across the web. - The result for learners: new learning and knowledge, real-world outcomes like jobs, credit for new skills and achievements, and whole new ways to level up in their life and work. Collaborate with leaders in education, industry and government - Badges for Lifelong Learning competition collaborators<http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-collaborators.php>include leading organizations exploring the potential of badges for their own work and programs. - These include NASA, the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, Energy, and Veterans Affairs, Intel, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Association of Manufacturers, Microsoft, and many others<http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-collaborators.php> . - These organizations will provide real-world examples, content, programs, activities, and other learning resources for the competition, actively collaborating alongside select participants. - This is a unique opportunity for badge designers and technologists to work with some of the world's most innovative organizations, collaborate with other competition participants, or focus directly on their own project. Who should participate? - Organizations and groups with "badge friendly" content, programs, or activities. - Individuals or teams interested in advancing new approaches to learning. - Learning and assessment innovators interested in new ways of inspiring and recognizing learning across contexts. - Designers interested in badges and sets of badges. - Developers and technologists with ideas around building systems or tools to support badges. How to participate There are two main ways to participate. Applicants can submit: 1. Badge Content and Programs<http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-stage-1.php>- proposals focused on learning content, programs, and activities that present an opportunity for badges and badge systems. These applicants will submit to Stage One (see below). 2. Badge Design and Tech<http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-stage-2.php>- proposals focused on badge or badge system design and the supporting technology that makes them work. These applicants will submit to Stage Two (see below). NOTE: Applicants can submit proposals in a single category, or in both. The competition has three stages: 1) Content and Programs<http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-stage-1.php>; 2) Design and Tech<http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-stage-2.php>; 3) Match-making and Finals<http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-stage-3.php>. (View the timeline.) <http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-timeline.php> Winners - Winning badge systems will be selected from those presented at the Finals in Stage Three by an expert panel of judges and announced at the end of January 2012. - Criteria will include: - overall technical and pedagogical quality; - effectiveness of the badges' assessment process; - aesthetic and design quality; - likelihood of acceptance and adoption by learners, institutions, employers, and the general public. - Winners will receive up to $200,000 for their projects - Awards ranging from $10,000 to $200,000 will be granted to the winning teams from Stage Three. These awards will be granted based on project feasibility and complexity, team member expertise, length of time required to complete the work, and level of institutional support. - Time to complete winning projects is one year. - Representatives from winning teams will attend the Winner's Meeting and Digital Media and Learning Symposium in San Francisco on February 29, 2012, followed by the Digital Media and Learning Conference<http://dml2012.dmlcentral.net/>on March 1-3, 2012and present their projects at a special forum. Winners must also budget travel expenses to participate in the 2013 Digital Media and Learning Conference. - Winning badge systems will launch and join the badge ecosystem in early 2013. Sheryl Grant Director, Social Networking HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media & Learning Competition <http://www.dmlcompetition.net/> Duke University Box 90403 114. S. Buchanan Blvd., Bay 5 Durham, NC 27708-0403 <http://www.youtube.com/user/video4hastac#g/p>
Hello to all, I am in the process of searching for readings to assign in a newly-developed/developing course that I will be teaching in Spring 2012 semester. It's titled "Gender, Information Technology, and Transnational Cultures" (long title, I know, but we couldn't figure out how to shorten it). While I already have chosen several important readings for the course, I'd like to take advantage of the expertise of members of this list in case you have suggestions for other pertinent readings. Although there will be a few readings on gender and IT in general, the focus really is on gender and ICTs. After conducting a search, I don't think that it will be possible to choose a primary text that is capable of capturing the breadth of this course, but, if you have suggestions for one, I also would appreciate hearing from you. [By the way, the course is cross-listed for junior and senior undergraduate students and graduate students in Media Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.] Thanks and all the best, Lisa -- Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Media, Journalism and Film Studies & Program in Women¹s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Editor, Feminist Media Studies Miami University-Ohio Contact: Mass Communication Williams Hall Miami University-Ohio Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA Tele: 513-529-3547 Fax: 513-529-1835 Email: mclauglm@muohio.edu
Hi Lisa, I'm teaching a fourth year course right now called Gender and Social Media. The theoretical framework draws largely from Wajman, Castells and Fuchs but I have incorporated a large variety of readings based around politics/social justice, identity, gendered performances, privacy and surveillance, etc. If you'd like more specifics, I can send them to you off-list. Best of luck with your course design, Rena -- Adjunct Professor Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies Dunton Tower, Room 1509 1125 Colonel By Drive, Carleton University, Ottawa ON K1S 5B6 Office: (613) 520-2600 ext. 2904 Cell: (613) 618-4602 renabivens.com ca.linkedin.com/in/renabivens @renabivens On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:44 PM, McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr. < mclauglm@muohio.edu> wrote:
Hello to all,
I am in the process of searching for readings to assign in a newly-developed/developing course that I will be teaching in Spring 2012 semester. It's titled "Gender, Information Technology, and Transnational Cultures" (long title, I know, but we couldn't figure out how to shorten it). While I already have chosen several important readings for the course, I'd like to take advantage of the expertise of members of this list in case you have suggestions for other pertinent readings. Although there will be a few readings on gender and IT in general, the focus really is on gender and ICTs. After conducting a search, I don't think that it will be possible to choose a primary text that is capable of capturing the breadth of this course, but, if you have suggestions for one, I also would appreciate hearing from you.
[By the way, the course is cross-listed for junior and senior undergraduate students and graduate students in Media Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.]
Thanks and all the best,
Lisa
-- Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Media, Journalism and Film Studies & Program in Women¹s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Editor, Feminist Media Studies Miami University-Ohio
Contact: Mass Communication Williams Hall Miami University-Ohio Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA Tele: 513-529-3547 Fax: 513-529-1835 Email: mclauglm@muohio.edu
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I've received a number of responses to my query below, with several suggestions for excellent resources on Gender, Information Technology, and Transnational Cultures. Thanks to those who have sent information about pertinent resources, and, to everyone, please keep sending suggestions for class readings. Several people on the listserv also have asked that I compile a list of the reading suggestions and send this to them. Please be assured that, once I compile a list of readings, I will send these to everyone via the listserv. Thanks, Lisa -- Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Mass Communication & Program in Women¹s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Co-editor, Feminist Media Studies Miami University-Ohio Contact: Mass Communication Williams Hall Miami University-Ohio Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA Tele: 513-529-3547 Fax: 513-529-1835 Email: mclauglm@muohio.edu On 9/20/11 8:44 PM, "McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr." <mclauglm@muohio.edu> wrote:
Hello to all,
I am in the process of searching for readings to assign in a newly-developed/developing course that I will be teaching in Spring 2012 semester. It's titled "Gender, Information Technology, and Transnational Cultures" (long title, I know, but we couldn't figure out how to shorten it). While I already have chosen several important readings for the course, I'd like to take advantage of the expertise of members of this list in case you have suggestions for other pertinent readings. Although there will be a few readings on gender and IT in general, the focus really is on gender and ICTs. After conducting a search, I don't think that it will be possible to choose a primary text that is capable of capturing the breadth of this course, but, if you have suggestions for one, I also would appreciate hearing from you.
[By the way, the course is cross-listed for junior and senior undergraduate students and graduate students in Media Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.]
Thanks and all the best,
Lisa
participants (3)
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McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr. -
Rena Bivens -
Sheryl Grant