Peer-to-Peer Pedagogy Workshop at Duke: Hold the Date!

On September 10, 2010, Duke University will host an interactive workshop on Peer-to-Peer Pedagogy (P3). Well be looking together at the potentialities for new media and peer-driven learning techniques (such as crowdsourced models of grading, expertise, networking, and publishing). Ten HASTAC Scholars, mostly graduate and undergraduate students, have been working on a wiki this summer developing interdisciplinary ideas to pitch at P3 and they will serve as our peer-mentors during the event. In addition, three visionary teachers/scholars/ inventors/technology designers/assessment wizards will kick off P3. Anne Balsamo (tinkering spaces), David Gibson (game mechanics), and Nils Peterson (expeditionary learning) will begin with an UnPanel to share their qualitative and quantitative data in ways that will also inspire us and get our creative and critical juices flowing. We hope, by the end of our day together, to be showing (not just telling) why we need to reconnect research, teaching, learning infrastructure, and real lived communities (both privileged and marginalized) if we are going to fulfill the promise implicit in the global, open web. 

Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as part of the Digital Media and Learning Initiative (http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.946881/k.B85/Domestic_Grant...), P3 we are also pleased by the participation of founding members of Peer-to-Peer University (http://p2pu.org/).  Online learning, peer learning, mixed-reality learning, and the development of online-to-offline knowledge communities (ecosystems) will also be explored at P3.

We will open registration to the public in August. Pre-registration is required (but free) due to limited space. We hope to open thirty to forty slots on a first-come, first-served basis. Stay tuned to this blog and to our HASTAC Twitter stream and Facebook page for registration details as they become available.

Invited Speakers include:

Anne Balsamo
(http://cinema.usc.edu/) is Professor of Interactive Media and a scholar of new media, cultural studies, and gender theory at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She is especially interested in designing culture and in the ethics of interdisciplinary scholarship. She has pioneered "tinkering spaces" where those interested in new media theories can actually realize ideas as material spaces, objects, and practices. She is co-founder of Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company, and previously was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC which created experimental reading devices and new media genres.  Her books include Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women   and the forthcoming Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination

David Gibson (http://www.uvm.edu/~cems/complexsystems/?Page=members/profile.php&SM=mem...), College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont, is Executive Director of The Global Challenge (www.globalchallengeaward.org), a team and project-based learning and scholarship program for high school students funded by the National Science Foundation that engages small teams in studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics in order to solve global problems. His research and publications include work on complex systems analysis and modeling of education, web applications and the future of learning, and the use of technology to personalize education. His books include Games and Simulations in Online Learning, which outlines the potential for games and simulation-based learning, and Digital Simulations for Improving Education, which explores cognitive modeling, design and implementation. 

Nils Peterson 
(https://my.wsu.edu/portal/page?_pageid=177,79251&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL) is Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at Washington State University and a co-founder of Palouse Prairie School, a public charter school in Moscow, Idaho using the Expeditionary Learning model. He has 25 years of experience implementing technologies for teaching and learning, beginning with simulations used for medical education.

You can view the wiki that the HASTAC Scholar/Mentors have begun here: http://hastacscholars.wikispaces.com/P3