Some ways to keep on!

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An online journal to keep your hand in for issues that have come up in our class! http://www.firstpersonscholar.com

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LAST DAY! Learning, sharing, making, doing, thinking, acting

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Thursday 12 December, LAST DAY! Learning, sharing, making, doing, thinking, acting

·       LEARNING ANALYSIS DUE & PRESENTED; LOGBOOK 4 DUE; website splash page and data. (And anything you haven't already turned in). All in hard copy in class and electronic copies to gmail. 

On our last day we will share with each other our thoughts on how what we know has changed during our time together.

You will get a written evaluation from me as I look through all your work for the semester. It will come on email, at the email address I have from Testudo's roster. Be sure to check that email to see it and your grade for the semester. I will do my best in the evaluation to share my interest in your work and to offer suggestions for the future. And I would be delighted to see you next term to discuss this class or anything else! I have enjoyed our class so much, and appreciate all of you! 

Passing some sweetness around....

Today we begin for everyone with some exercises, to help us focus and make it a bit easier to share what we have done in the learning analysis. Today each person will speak and offer their own unique sense of traveling through the argument or story of the course. Our personal feelings are, of course, a special part of this. But do think of this primarily as an intellectual sharing of analysis as well as of any careful personal details. Celebrating each others' work and our own, and especially thinking together today about the knowledge we each bring into being is the collective project here, our feminist reconceptualization. So listen as carefully as you speak, because active listening is as necessary to collective thought. If someone else says something you intended to say, then -- thinking on your feet -- find another something to say that is a unique bit of your own work instead. 

Focusing exercises for presenting: 

EVERYONE:

1) find your favorite paragraph in the learning analysis. Put a star next to it.

2) write down what you are most proud of in this paper.

3) put an arrow next to the place you think best describes the argument of the course.

4) write down your favorite reading and be prepared to say what element of its ANALYSIS made it special for you.

PICK ONE OF THESE TOO:

=write about a moment in the course where everything seemed to come together for you.

=write about a moment outside the course where you realized you were using something you had learned in the class.

=write about a moment when you discovered something new about how you were included in the argument of the class. 

WHEN IT IS YOUR TURN TO SPEAK:

pick out four of these to share. Focus on analysis -- of the course, readings, experiences, realizations -- especially, although feelings and politics have important places too. Be mindful of the time -- we want to allow time for everyone in the class to speak today -- give some real details: don't be too general. Do show off the hard thinking you are capable of. Make sure what you say is special and unique.

And may we keep running into each other, over and over, in friendship and connection and intellectual community and joyful living!

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Bateson and learning? reality? how things are connected?

 

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WE WILL MEET ON THURSDAY AS SCHEDULED FOR LAST DAY OF CLASS! 
NO GRADE WITHOUT LOGBOOK 4! TURN EVERYTHING IN THEN DUE ON THE LAST DAY, AND ANYTHING YOU'VE MISSED CAN BE TURNED IN THEN TOO!

BRING HARD COPIES TO CLASS!

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wishes for you!

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Loving our media ecologies and lives of hope and planetary possibility. 
How to Make a Seed Bomb: http://www.greendiary.com/seed-bomb1.html

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Tuesday 10 December, MORE!! Share Feminism/s, how? with whom? with what fiero?

·       Bateson, “Theory” from Steps (electronic reserves) or here. 

·       Vared, “Beyond Barbie” read the whole thing now (electronic reserves) 

How do Bateson and Vared, from much longer again, put what we have done in the class into context? How might they help you frame your learning analysis? Why could they be helpful?

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What is a double bind? why might it matter to us?





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Bateson and learning? reality? how things are connected?



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Thursday 12 December, LAST DAY! Learning, sharing, making, doing, thinking, acting

·       LEARNING ANALYSIS DUE & PRESENTED; LOGBOOK 4 DUE; website splash page and data. (And anything you haven't already turned in). All in hard copy in class and electronic copies to gmail. 

On our last day we will share with each other our thoughts on how what we know has changed during our time together.

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going meta?

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MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarden website
Creating your own computer game is child's play (2008) 
Invent to Learn : check out this book!!
Katie's Transmedia Ecologies Learning 

The fourth section of our course:

>>>HOW WE CARE FOR AND WITH PLAY

Put the sections together.... how?

>>>WHAT DOES FUN REALLY MEAN?
>>>GATHERINGS: WITH PROCESSES, THINGS, BEINGS AND DISTRIBUTED POSSIBILITY
>>>MAKING REALITY MATTER, MATTERING REALITIES

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Tuesday 3 December, Share Feminism/s, how? with whom? with what fiero?

·       Explore and review and admire and model what folks have done at NYMG! Bring in printouts of your favorite posts, with thoughts about how these connect with your projects for A Gathering and Gaia, and effects on your own website.

·       PREPARATION FOR THE LEARNING ANALYSIS: do you have questions? You should have started.

What do McGonigal, Reed, and Flanagan have to teach us about the issues raised in the other books that we might have missed if we hadn’t read their work?

Thursday 5 December, Prototyping: website creation and curation

·       YOU HAVE A WEBSITE!

Our fifth “flipping the classroom” Thursday! You MUST BE PREPARED so we can spend our time MAKING THINGS! What are you curating on your website? How does it include what you have learned in this class?

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Practicing meta-cognition: what is it and why should we care? 
From Annenberg Learner: http://www.learner.org/faq/  

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