New York City October 10-16, 2011 www.mobilityshifts.

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Shifting the University:

Tactics to Revamp Sites of Institutional Learning
Friday, October 14, 10:00 a.m. Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
When DIY platforms that celebrate peer-to-peer learning, participation, and consumer-created content are domesticated within existing educational institutions, then, existing models of knowledge and production are reified and reproduced. The presenters theorize the modern university as one comprised of an array of sites, each of which offers unique opportunitiesas well as obstaclesfor imagining how digital media can transform learning practices. Each presenter will identify a specific site for intervention and institutional revamping: the classroom, the library, online textbooks, and administration, and offer site-specific strategies for enacting and embedding a critical consciousness of contemporary knowledge production. Finally, the presenters will engage the audience in a whiteboard brainstorming session in order to produce a toolkit of specific practices and tactics for shifting institutional structures vis--vis the DIY and Edupunk cultures that proliferate just beyond the university walls. Catherine Dumas (State University of New York, Albany) Megan Fulwiler (The College of Saint Rose) Jennifer Marlow (The College of Saint Rose) Kim Middleton (The College of Saint Rose)

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