Week+03


 * Week 3 (9/26) Teaching with Technology vs Edutainment **


 * Questions: How can we teach content using the right media for our context? How does the medium change the work we do? How can we use media in robust ways? **

Boyd, Danah. 2006. A blogger’s blog: Exploring the definition of a medium . //Reconstruction//. 6(4).

Carr, N. (2008). Is Google making us stupid?: Why you can't read the way you used to . //The Atlantic// //Monthly.// 56.

Excerpt from Postman, //Amusing Ourselves to Death// (mypratt)


 * EBook/Reader Case Study: **
 * (//Note: If you have read or viewed other compelling materials about EBooks or reader devices, please feel free to share them with the class in the discussion tab of this week, or mention them in class)// **

Antolini, Tina (2009, Nov. 9). Digital School Library Leaves Book Stacks Behind. NPR website. []

Baker, N. (2009, August 3). A new page: Can the Kindle really improve on the book?  //The New Yorker, 85,// 24-30.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Dilworth, Diana (2010, June 25). Amy Chow NYC School Librarian Talks eBooks. Media Bistro. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Hamilton, Buffy (2011 March 5). Kindle Program Update and FAQs, March 2011. The Unquiet Library blog. @http://theunquietlibrary.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/kindle-program-update-and-faqs-march-2011/

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Rapp, David (2010 Sept. 29). Ebook Summit Kicks Off with Library Ebook Survey Results. Library Journal website. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[]

McLuhan on the Today show
 * REQUIRED VIEWING: **

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">WIRED bio of Marshall McLuhan <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">@http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/07/0721marshall-mcluhan-born/

McLuhan on Media
 * OPTIONAL VIEWING:**

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Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall" (this links to a longer version with choppy sound)

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