Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/CUNY Graduate Center/Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Core 1 (Fall 2018)

We will examine the economic, social, and intellectual history of technological change over time, as well as technology and digital media design and use.

Our primary focus is on the mutual shaping of technology and academic teaching, learning and research—how people and technologies have shaped academic classroom and research

interactions in the past, and how they are reshaping the university in the present. By examining the use and design of technologies inside and outside of the academy, we are, of course, also reflecting on what it means to be human in a world increasingly dominated and controlled by various technologies.

The course also explores the history and theory of digital media, including hypertext and multimedia, highlighting the theoretical and practical possibilities for research, reading, writing, presentation, interaction, and play. We are particularly interested in the ITP program in the possibilities that new, nonlinear, digital tools have opened up for teaching and research, including the emergence of the “Digital Humanities.”

Week 8
Part I: Understanding the community, the wiki, and the encyclopedia

Complete the following student-training units designed by WikiEducation, a Wikipedia program established to help academics teaching with Wikipedia.

Goal: to learn of the mechanics and principles behind Wikipedia so that you can both become a proper editor and critique its values.

Due: October 15

Training to be completed:

Wikipedia policies

Sandboxes, talk pages, and watchlists

How to edit: Wikicode vs Visual Editor

Contributing images and media files

Translating articles

Adding citations

Drafting in the sandbox

Drafting in the sandbox (as a group)

Moving work out of the sandbox

Moving work out of the sandbox (as a group)

Plagiarism and copyright violation

Part II: Editing an assigned article in teams

As part of your team, you will create a plan of action to contribute to the Wikipedia stub article “Digital Pedagogy” at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_pedagogy, put the plan in action, and evaluate the results. You will be expected to work at least partly on wiki to get the full experience of collaborative editing. Be prepared to report on your progress during class meetings.

Goal: to experience Wikipedia as many students do: by team-editing Wikipedia as a part of an assigned project.

Part III: Working on an article of personal interest

Individually, choose a Wikipedia article on a subject that interests you and complete work to contribute to it. Your effort may be extensive or modest; where and how you work on it is up to you, as well as whether you publish your contribution or not. Be prepared to report on your progress during class meetings. Goal: to experience Wikipedia as most first-time editors do: by working on an article of personal interest. Due: November 5 before class

Class Discussion

Part IV: Reflection on parts I-III, or what is the value of what you have learned

In at least 1,000 words, please cover the follow points:

Do you follow, metacognitively, the purpose of the assignment, its goals, scaffolding, and design? Are there aspects to the assignment that you would have designed differently?

Analyze how the assignments helped you think about themes and ideas of the class. How do the theoretical readings relate to the practical application of working on Wikipedia pages?

Review the tools and methods that, in the future, you can use to design and implement interactive technologies in pedagogical settings. What did you learn, from practical to philosophical, from revelations to cautionary tales, that you will take with you going forward?

Due: November 26 by the end of the day