James Gee, Part 2: Yu-Gi-Oh
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Join leading educational scholars and digital learning pioneers James Gee and Nichole Pinkard at the 2011 Summer Institute for Teachers (SIT) for an in-depth exploration into the changing nature of writing in the 21st century. Visual, interactive, cinematic, textual, oral, musical—these varied forms provide teachers and their students with fresh and expanded opportunities to engage in narrative, persuasive, and informational communication.
Institute participants will explore a collection of student-created digital artifacts to see how students express their understanding of books such as The House on Mango Street and A Mercy and will have a chance to try their hand at creating a media artifact to showcase their own understanding of a text.
James Gee, Arizona State University professor of literacy studies, provides historical context—defining new media literacies and how and why they are on a continuum with traditional literacies.
Nichole Pinkard, DePaul University Associate Professor in Interactive Media, founder of the Digital Youth Network, and co-founder of YOUmedia, brings her frontline experience to SIT to help teachers uncover how various forms of media—films, games, graphic novels, songs, and simulations—can be thought of as artifacts that can foster, further, and redefine the writing process.
About SIT
Celebrating its 15th annual season, CHF’s Summer Institute for Teachers (SIT) gives teachers an opportunity to be students themselves and learn from leading educators, scholars and writers in an intimate, intensive environment. The aim of SIT is to nourish teachers’ love of learning, introduce them to current research, and give them new tools for the classroom.
Presented in partnership with YOUmedia and with support from the MacArthur Foundation.
