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Lecture on new media, education is March 15 3 p.m., March 9, 2007--Colin Lankshear, professor of literacy and new technologies at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, and Michele Knobel, professor of education at Montclair State University in Montreal, will lecture on “Virtual Machinations: Popular Media and Taking Risks in Education,” at Literacies, Popular Media and Taking Risks in Education,” at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 15, in 127 Memorial Hall. Lankshear and Knobel will speak about the practices of machinima, or video-games-based movie making, its influence on everyday practices and educational possibilities. Lankshear is a freelance educational researcher and writer and is a visiting scholar at McGill University in Montreal. Knobel is an adjunct professor of education at Central Queensland University in Australia. Their research focuses on relationships between new literacies, social practices and digital technologies. Their recent publications include New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning, A New Literacies Sampler and A Handbook for Teacher Research. The talk is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the UD Library, IT-User Services, the School of Education, the Department of Art and the Department of English. For more information, call (302) 831-2361. |
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