Social discussion of CS in K-12

["Kennett, Katrina S" <kennett AT illinois.edu>]

Dear Shifters - 

Great to see so many of you last night. I wanted to put two things on your plate:

1. EdCampCU will be on Saturday, September 26 - location TBA but most likely in Champaign. 8-2 again, and we’re going to ask the Cracked truck to be there. Like before, our sessions will be titled with questions that bring us together. See our previous schedule for some inspiration. 

2. The Educational Theory Summer Institute is hosting an on-campus free to the public conference on Wednesday, August 19. I’ve attached the papers and the schedule below. The organizers asked me to put together a ‘roundtable’ that intentionally invites practitioners and presenters to consider why this topic matters for classrooms today. So, after the coffee break, we will all choose different tables and play with reading/writing technologies (things like GingkoApp and Twine) and talk about what they could mean for practitioners and theorists. It’s less of a ‘roundtable' and more of a 'structured EdCafe’ and, I hope, centers the questions we all bring to the technologies we use.  

I’m looking forward to both events and hope you might swing by for (even a bit of) both! 

My best,

Katrina 

Katrina Kennett

Literacy & Language, Doctoral Student

Assistant Director, Center for Writing Studies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

kennett AT illinois.edu // @katrinakennett

From: "Lyons, Myranda" <mjlyons AT illinois.edu>
Date: Monday, July 27, 2015 at 10:43 AM
To: ED Enrolled Grad Students <EDEnrolledGradStudents AT mx.uillinois.edu>
Subject: Educational Theory Summer Institute - August 19, 2015

Educational Theory Summer Institute 2015

Technologies of Reading and Writing

Featuring a conference, free and open to the public, on Wednesday, August 19

College of Education, Room 22

Lunch and refreshments provided

RSVP to Roman Friedman (rfridmn2 AT illinois.edu)

The journal Educational Theory and the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership are pleased to announce the Sixth Annual Educational Theory Summer Institute (ETSI), to be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from August 17-19, 2015.

 

This year’s theme is “Technologies of Reading and Writing.” Educational Theory has commissioned a team of leading international scholars to produce fresh and substantive contributions to a special issue on the theme. The 2015 participants are:

• Cathy Adams, University of Alberta
• Nicholas Burbules, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Amanda Fulford, Leeds Trinity University
• Naomi Hodgson, University College London
• Anna Kouppanou, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute
• Anne Mangen, University of Stavanger
• Joris Vlieghe, The University of Edinburgh

During the first two days of the institute, participants will workshop each other's papers in internal sessions withEducational Theory friends and colleagues. The institute will culminate on Wednesday, August 19, with an all-day open conference, featuring the scholars above and other area scholars (to be announced). The conference explores the intersection between reading, writing, and literacy with emerging technologies, social media, and digitization. It will feature three panels:

1. The Bodily Dimensions of Learning How to Read and Write
2. Hypertext, Social Media and Literacies
3. Practices and Gestures of Writing

All of those interested in the technological aspects of education are invited to attend (contact Roman Friedmanrfridmn2 AT illinois.edu for further details or to RSVP).

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Educational Theory is committed to bringing philosophical scholarship in education to a broader audience of educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens.

ETSI was established to foster new theoretical perspectives on timely questions of educational policy and practice. It brings leading scholars to the University of Illinois to collaborate on a special issue of EducationalTheory and, along with area scholars, to participate in a public conference.

We have held five successful institutes to date (more information available online here or the following links):

• Humane Education: Recovering the Humanistic Dimensions of
   Teaching, Learning, & Research (2014)
• Sex Education and Value Conflict in the Liberal State (2012)
• Plural Societies and the Possibility of a Shared Civic Vision (2011)
• What Makes a Public School Public? (2010)
• State Intervention and the Regulation of Parenting (2009)

SCHEDULE:

9:30 - 9:45 AM:        Coffee 

9:45 - 11:05 AM:      Panel 1: The Bodily Dimensions of Learning How to Read and Write

·           Anne Mangen (University of Stavanger)

·           Joris Vlieghe (The University of Edinburgh)

11:10 - 12:30 PM:     Panel 2: Hypertext, Social Media and Literacies

·           Nicholas Burbules (UIUC)

·           Anna Kouppanou (Cyprus Pedagogical Institute)

12:30 - 1:30 PM:       Lunch 

1:30 - 3:15 PM:         Panel 3: Practices and Gestures of Writing

·           Cathy Adams (University of Alberta)

·           Amanda Fulford (Leeds Trinity University)

·           Naomi Hodgson (University College London)

3:15 - 3:45 PM:         Coffee Break 

3:45 – 5:30 PM:        Implications for Practice: A Roundtable - Katrina Kennett (UIUC)

PAPER TITLES:

Joris Vlieghe: 

Education, literacy and digitization: A technosomatic perspective on reading and writing

Naomi Hodgson:

On Writing and the Public

Anna Kouppanou:

Hyperfiction: The thousand faces of metaphor

Amanda Fulford:

Learning to Write: Ploughing and Hoeing, Labour and Essaying

Cathy Adams:

The Gesture of Computing and the Computing of Gesture

Anne Mangen:

Digitizing literacy: perspectives from embodied cognition

Nicholas Burbules:

Social Media and New Literacies

Attachment: ETSI 2015 Announcement.pdf
Description: ETSI 2015 Announcement.pdf