[iDC] Call for Problems. MobilityShifts:

Mon Jul 25 21:04:07 UTC 2011

What’s Wrong with Digital Education?

On occasion of the MobilityShifts conference, 
Ghana ThinkTank Needs Your Problems 
No Later Than August 1, 2011

It starts with you. We need /your/ problems, so that our international
network of think tanks can solve them.
What’s wrong with digital education? What’s special about digital
education? What are its challenges? What are new pedagogic approaches
for learning with mobile platforms? What are the limitations of the
“digital literacies” paradigm and its first world/third world
assumptions?...
Post your problem to the group or email ghanathinktank at gmail.com by
August 1, 2011.

The Ghana ThinkTank: Developing the First World.
Founded in 2006, Ghana ThinkTank is a worldwide network of think tanks
creating strategies to resolve problems in the "developed" world. The
network began with think tanks from Ghana, Cuba and El Salvador, and has
since expanded to include Serbia, Mexico and Iran. Our think tanks
analyze problems and propose solutions, which we put into action back in
the community where the problems originated – whether those solutions
seem impractical or brilliant. 

For the New School’s conference MobilityShifts on Digital Learning
(Oct. 10-16, 2011), Ghana ThinkTank has been hired by the Vera List
Center for Art and Politics to solve the problems posed by the
conference.

We request your participation in identifying these problems.

MobilityShiftsis an international conference on digital learning,
exploring digital fluencies in a mobile world and DIY learning, with a
special emphasis on digital learning projects worldwide. The summit is
part of The New School’s Politics of Digital Culture conference series,
and builds on two previous events, The Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona
(2010) and Digital Media and Learning (2011 in Los Angeles. 

Carin Kuoni
Director, Vera List Center for Art and Politics
The New School
66 West 12th Street, Rm 918
New York, NY 10011
212.229.2436
www.veralistcenter.org ( http://www.veralistcenter.org/ )

>>> "Trebor Scholz" <scholzt at newschool.edu> 5/14/2011 8:06 AM >>>
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MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
Call for Workshops, Demonstrations, Panel Discussions and Short Talks
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS JULY 1, 2011 
11:59pm (EST)

MobilityShifts
When: October 10-16, 2011
Where: The New School, New York City
http://mobilityshifts.org 

MOBILITYSHIFTS IS: provocative conversations, original ideas, engaging
performances, workshops and art projects about digital learning.
Where,
when, how, and even what we are learning is changing. Digital learning
is not only taking place online or in the university classroom but is
also situated in museums, after school programs, living rooms, public
libraries and peer-to-peer universities. The future of learning will
not
be solely determined by digital culture but by the re-organization of
power relationships and institutional protocols. MobilityShifts will
bring together leading scholars, artists, web developers,
technologists,
teachers, librarians, policy makers, critical legal scholars and
learning activists to discuss how digital media can play a positive
role
in this process of transformation. 

Comprised of a conference, exhibition, workshops, project demos and a
theater performance, this summit will add an international layer to
the
existing debate about digital fluencies for a mobile world and
learning
outside the bounds of traditional institutions of higher education. 

Drawing on New York City’s strengths as a global hub for learning,
innovation and design, the summit will showcase theories, people and
projects making unexpected connections between self-learning, mobile
platforms and the Open Web. Learn, discuss, laugh, write
mini-manifestos, record videos, conduct interviews and meet future
collaborators. 

APPLICATION GUIDELINES
MobilityShifts is now accepting applications in the following formats:

1) Hands-on Workshops and Demonstrations 
(They will take place October 10-13.)
Workshops and Demonstrations should provide an opportunity for
hands-on
exploration. They will be scheduled for two hours and should invite
audience participation.

2) Panel Discussions and Short Talks 
(October 13-16)  
Panel Discussions should bring together four panelists to include a
mix
of individuals working in diverse areas of research, theory and
practice. 

Short Talks of up to ten minutes should focus on presenting work or
research on a particular subject relevant to one of the three
subthemes
of the Summit.

MOBILITYSHIFTS SUBTHEMES:

DIGITAL FLUENCIES FOR A MOBILE WORLD
- New pedagogical approaches for learning with mobile platforms;
- Mobile media for the creation of rich social contexts around
learning
activities;
- Revisiting the myth of the digital native;
- Histories of media literacy, the book, reading, and writing;
- Teaching user rights;
- Limitations of the “digital literacies" paradigm;
- Remix and responsibility; the ethics of database culture;
- Using locative media to expand learning beyond the classroom;
- Ubiquitous computing inside the traditional classroom; 
- Collaborative learning as a fundamental model of pedagogy;
- Texts, tweets, and chats as new modes of writing;
- Smartphone video capture and the art of witnessing;
- Flash-mobbing, spontaneous gathering, and collective learning in a
mobile world;
- Nostalgia for pre-mobile learning spaces

DO IT YOURSELF UNIVERSITIES: LEARNING WITHOUT A SCHOOL?
- The future of peer-to-peer learning networks, learning without
walls/blended learning, sustainability, methods and social practices;
- Insertions, rearrangements and revamping within existing
institutional
frameworks: the Twenty-first Century University as global learning
network;
- Failure of self-learning projects, barriers to the success of DIY U;
- Technical systems that facilitate relationships between non-monetary
or reputation economies and DIY U (OpenBadges project);
- Challenges of selective and non-selective models of admission;
- Producing, locating and using openly accessible resources for le-
Reframing knowledge, the educational turn in art;
- Histories of DIY learning;
- For-profit and non-profit education: certification for
self-learning,
mass customization of education, open access as business model;
- Models of peer-grading, updated visions of peer review, and
peer-produced curriculum;
- Student occupations: Struggle as DIY learning 

INNOVATIVE DIGITAL LEARNING PROJECTS WORLDWIDE
- Expand the definition of digital learning informed by projects from
outside the United States; 
- Examples of practitioners in countries outside of North America and
Europe serving as digital innovators;
- Reshape our curricula and pedagogical practices for a transnational
digital fluency;
- The Twenty-first Century University as global learning network

PROPOSAL FORMAT
PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS SHOULD
INCLUDE:
1) Names of key presenters or panelists

2) Institutional affiliations

3) 150 word biography for Workshop/Panel Chair

4) Identification of conference subtheme to be covered (Digital
Fluencies for a Mobile World, DIY U: Learning Without a School?, or
Digital Learning Projects Globally)

5) Narrative describing topical orientation, format (e.g., panel
discussion, presentation followed by group activity and discussion),
as
well as how the session addresses the overall conference focus and/or
one of the three conference subthemes. Narrative should be 500 words
or
less.

6) MobilityShifts explores the summit as a site of production. What
will
be the outcome of your contribution (e.g., mini-manifestos, sprint
publications, video interviews and other documents)?

7) Submissions will be accepted in Word document format (.doc or
.docx)
ONLY.

8) Submit to digitalculture [at] newschool.edu with the chosen
subtheme
in the subject line

PROPOSAL FOR SHORT TALKS SHOULD INCLUDE:
1) Name of key presenter

2) Institutional affiliations

3) 150 word biography for key presenter

4) Identification of conference subtheme to be covered (Digital
Fluencies for a Mobile World, DIY U: Learning Without a School?, or
Digital Learning Projects Globally)

5) Narrative describing theme, format (e.g., panel discussion,
presentation followed by interactivity and discussion), as well as how
the session addresses the overall conference focus and/or one of the
three conference subthemes. The narrative should be 250 words or less.

6) Submissions will be accepted in Word document format ONLY (.doc or
.docx) .

7) Submit to digitalculture [at] newschool.edu with the chosen
subtheme
in the subject heading. (Ex.: Digital Fluencies for a Mobile World
Proposal)

8) Each individual will be limited to participation on no more than
two
panels at the Summit. Participants will be expected to fund their own
travel and accommodation. The registration fee will not be waived.

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JULY 1, 2011, 11:59pm (EST).

AUGUST 15 - PROPOSAL NOTIFICATIONS WILL BE SENT.

------------------------
Chair: Trebor Scholz
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Losh, Edward Keller, David Theo Goldberg, Matthew
K. Gold, Sean Dockray
Steering Committee: Arien Mack, Katie Salen, McKenzie Wark

Sponsors: The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Eugene Lang
College The New School for Liberal Arts, The New School, Parsons The
New
School for Design, The New School for General Studies, The New School
for Social Research, and the Mozilla Foundation 

MobilityShifts is part of The New School’s Politics of Digital Culture
conference series. The summit builds on two previous events: The
Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona (2010) and Digital Media and Learning
2011 in Los Angeles.
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