Integrative Learning and the Gift of New Media:

General Education for the 21st Century

Dr. Gardner CampbellAssociate Professor of Literature, Media, and Learning

Director, Academy for Teaching and LearningBaylor University

www.gardnercampbell.net

Marco Antonio Torres is a 10-year high school teacher, media coach, and education technology director for San Fernando High School, one of the nation's largest urban schools in Los Angeles. He is also a professional filmmaker and photographer who uses these digital storytelling skills to add value to his curriculum. 

“Millicomputing,” Adrian Cockrofthttp://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3871.html

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Our Shared Reality, 2010

“We are living in the middle of the largest increase in expressive capability in the history of the human race.”

Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody

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Flickr Photo by David Anthony Porterhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/davidaporter/

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How long will it take before we see the gift for what it is—a single new medium of representation, the digital medium, formed by the braided interplay of technical invention and cultural expression at the end of the 20th century?Janet Murray, “Inventing the Medium,” The New Media Reader (MIT, 2003)

The Nature of Technology

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Other schooling technologies

• Credit hour• GPA• Course• Semester• Examination• “Year” (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior)• Transcript• Faculty

Hofstadter: Generalization involves the ability to internally reconfigure an idea, by• moving internal boundaries back and forth;• swapping components or shifting substructures from one level to another;• merging two substructures into one or breaking one substructure into two;• lengthening or shortening a given component;• adding new components or new levels of structure;• replacing one concept by a closely related one;• trying out the effect of reversals on various conceptual levels; and so on.

“As of February 2010, more than 2 million user-created levels have been published.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LittleBigPlanet

Three Recursive Practices (for our students—and for us)

• Narrating• Curating• Sharing Network effects are most

powerful on the open Web using Web 2.0 affordances

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The liberal arts / gen. ed. “hazing.” See T. Clydesdale, The First Year Out (U. Chicago Press, 2007)

A paradigm shift

From General Education To Generalizable Education

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The task is the same now as it ever has been, familiar, thrilling, unavoidable: we work with all our myriad talents to expand our media of expression to the full measure of our humanity.Janet Murray, “Inventing the Medium”