Creation and Maker Culture

in the Classroom

C. GuertinUOIT | EDUC5199G

28 July 15

We have witnessed in our time the rise of citizen journalism

Khaled Hafez, Video Diaries (2011)

TAHRIR SQUARE, CAIRO, 25 JAN 2011

E-GYPT 2011 ~ SEQUENCE OF EVENTSARAB SPRING: 18 DAYS OF REVOLUTION TAHRIR SQUARE, CAIRO

25 JAN: “THE DAY OF REVOLT”26 JAN: DAY OF THE DISCONNECT: MOBILE AND INTERNET

SERVICES SHUT DOWN FOR ONE WEEK BY DELETING THE‘EGYPT’ DOMAIN

28 JAN: “DAY OF ANGER”29 JAN: INCREASED MILITARY PRESENCE01 FEB: MUBARAK MAKES CONCESSIONS02 FEB: “INCIDENT OF THE CAMELS” IN TAHRIR SQUARE06 FEB: MULTIFAITH SERVICE IN TAHRIR SQUARE10 FEB: MUBARAK DELEGATES SOME POWERS11 FEB: “FRIDAY OF DEPARTURE”: MUBARAK RESIGNS

AESTHETIC JOURNALISM, A TERM COINED BY ALFREDO CRAMEROTTI AND KHALED RAMADAN

“the blurring of margins between artistic and information practices is a main feature of contemporary culture” ~ Alfredo Cramerotti

“VIDEO DIARIES” KHALED HAFEZ, 2011

Aesthetic Journalism

Video is now an accessible medium for anyone with a laptop computer or a smartphone

Rachelle Chinnery’s The Alchemy of CraftWatch to 3:50: https://vimeo.com/112782632

SQUOMB’S “AUSPICE” (2011)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijv7hYVxMdY

THIS IS FIRST RESPONSE JOURNALISM OR GUERRILLA JOURNALISM, RATHER THAN REPORTING.

WHERE THESE JUST-IN-TIME SOCIAL MEDIA

ACTIVITIES ARE MOST EFFECTIVE IS AS TOOLS

FOR ACTIVISTS

New media are key at enabling: 1. Cyberactivism2. Civic engagement3. Promoting other acts of guerrilla journalism

Social media and affordable media platforms new kinds of DIY, specifically DIWO

SOCIAL MEDIA PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS TO “EXPRESS THEMSELVES AND DOCUMENT THEIR OWN VERSIONS OF REALITY” (KHAMIS & VAUGHN 5)

SUBJECTIVE POSITIONINGS

For classrooms, teachers and enthusiasts, we get Maker Faire

Which spreads globally

VIRAL MEDIA/MEMESTwo ways memes transmit themselves 1. replicate themselves as a product or 2. they can copy the instructions of their own creation (Blackmore, 1999,

288).

PRODUCT

FORMULA

MOVE FROM PASSIVE MEDIA TO SOCIAL MEDIA

RISE OF A NEW VOCABULARYFROM “INDIGNADOS” TO “THE 99%” TO “#OCCUPY” TO “GLOBAL NOISE” TO “#UPSETTLERS”

DIGITAL ACTIVISMIS AN ONLINE TOOL THAT MOBILIZES FOR REAL POLITICAL CHANGE OFFLINE

WIKILEAKS

“Interface is content” (Brachet qtd Rose 208)How do we harness this DIY energy in the classroom?

Total passion for a subject

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=62&v=u85ffOhLu-s

Set the bar low for access for your students:to ensure self-expression versus the work

of learning a platform

In “The Author as Producer” (1934), Walter Benjamin proposed that artist’s task is to:

“adapt ‘the production apparatus’ (Benjamin, 1977, 94) on behalf of the workers. ‘This apparatus will be better,’ he continues, ‘the more consumers it brings into contact with the production process—in short,

the more readers or spectators it turns into collaborators’” (Benjamin, 98).

(Qtd in Rose 207)

Unleashing Readers: Classroom Discussion Techniques

1. Old fashioned circle (with a twist)

2. Fishbowl3. Socratic Seminar4. Jigsaw5. Concentric Circles

6. Give One, Get One7. Post-It Walk8. Pass The Butcher Paper9. Four Corners10. Facts of Five

http://www.unleashingreaders.com/?p=6955

Bringing play back into the high school classroom

1. Free choice time: Student-directed learning2. Blocks and Legos: Maker spaces and fab labs3. Playground: Pick-up sports and jam sessions4. Finger-painting: Arts integration5. Make-Believe: Problem-based learning: (see in

particular Jackie Gerstein’s books and Institute of Play: http://www.instituteofplay.org/2013/05/resources-for-educators/ )

6. Rice Tables and Sandboxes: Science Through Inquiry

http://bit.ly/1Jm1yMP

http://thinkingthroughourfingers.blogspot.ca/2015/07/how-world-building-impacts-plot.html

Drake changed the dialogue about women in hip-hop

http://mic.com/articles/122515/7-ways-drake-revolutionized-hip-hop

Collecting as DIY activity? Jarod Charzewski builds from discarded objects

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/sculptor-jarod-charzewski-uses-everyday-objects-to-explore-our-need-to-collect/Content?oid=5327908

Personal objects as vehicles of identity and self-expression

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/four-dudes-from-el-salvador-are-skating-to-america-20150717

• Winning start-up, O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2011 • 15th Annual Webby Awards Official Honoree in the "Youth" category.• 2011 Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The

award honors “cutting edge work to bring books, publishing, and storytelling into the future.”

• 2014 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning, American Association of School Librarians

http://dailyfig.figment.com/category/contests/

https://scratch.mit.edu/#

http://bit.ly/1U4s1l1

Humans must work together to set collective goals: the future of work

http://fortune.com/2015/07/23/humans-are-underrated/

Instructor as game designer

Open source media tools: Quotable, Factlist and Waterbug

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/npr-release-open-source-social-media-tools-for-newsrooms/s2/a565922/