IT 695 Spring 2009: Learning and the Internet

Web 2.0(6 weeks)

1. Here Comes Everybody : The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
2. The Cult of the Amateur: how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generatred media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values (review) (Another title might be "how books now have obscenely long names to get more hits when people search for them on Amazon.com.")
3. The World is Flat list of 10 flatteners plus OSS chapter. (probably from DMS)
4. The Wisdom of Crowds (Wikipedia page plus links to a couple of interviews) probably enough.
5. Not sure about this one, but it may be worth a look: Opening Up Education n
6. The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir.  Part 1, Part 2.  This is also in Open Sources 2.0. Describes how Wikipedia came to be and provides a how-to for building such a project.
7. Convergence Cuture. (This is getting to be too many books)  Perhaps this interview and/or The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence (jenkins2004clm.pdf)is enough.
8. Getting It from the Web: Why and How Online Resources are Used by Independent Undergraduate Learners (Kirkwood, 2007)
9. Sillence, E., Briggs, P., Harris, P. and Fishwick, L. (2007). How do patients evaluate and make use of online health information? Social Science and Medicine.(sillence2007hdp)
10. Wikinomics
11. Meet your iBrain. (small2008myi)
12. The OpenCourseWars (wiley2008to)
13. When Fingers do the Talking (faulkner2005wfd)
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Communities of Practice (3 weeks)

Stahl--CSCL An Historical Perspective

Digital Youth project.

Expertise and Transfer.  (3 weeks)

hmelo-silver2006ucs, hmelo-silver2007fsr

schwartz2007rpk, schwartz2004ipf,

Distributed Cognition & Situated cognition (3 weeks)

Salomon, G. (Ed.). (1993a). Distributed cognitions. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Google Books

Martin (in press). A Theory of Physically Distributed Learning:How External Environments and Internal States Interact in Mathematics Learning.  Child Develoment Perspectives.

zhang2006dcr,sutton2006dc,steels2006ctd