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judging panel

CG Spain’s Commissioning Editor, Ernesto Baltar, has been awarded Benicassim‘s International Prize of Literature for 2011.  41 authors competed from across the globe, including the US, India, Colombia, and France.  The prize is awarded for “travel literature not only geographical character stories in specific time and space, but also the experiences of all kinds – inner travels – a writer or writer can be related to their emotional, emotional or intellectual vicissitudes.”

November

Aging and Society, Nov 8-9, Clark Kerr campus at UC Berkeley

Ubiquitous Learning, Nov. 11-12, Clark Kerr campus at UC Berkeley

We can use new technologies to do conventional, old things—as we do when we transfer Gutenberg’s typographic schemas onto desktops or the heritage logic of classrooms into learning management systems. This presentation explores seven ‘affordances’—things we could do differently with new media technologies, even though much of the time we do not. The things I am going to highlight are by no means written into new media technologies. In fact, these are all things that, with effort, we could have done with printed texts and in traditional classrooms, and sometimes did. The change of greatest significance is the economy of effort.  The presentation will explore the practicalities of integrating assessment into learning in several projects I am working on for the US Department of Education. For these projects, we have been building an online writing, learning and assessment environment, and trialing it in schools. I will show this. I will also discuss a theory of new learning and new literacies, focusing on some of the affordances of the digital media: collaboration, differentiation, metacognition, ubiquity, multimodality, agency and evaluation.

Karim Gherab-Martin

A number of Common Ground Publishing’s key international partners and staff have come together in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois this week to discuss vital connections between conferencing, publishing, learning, and transformative media in the US and abroad.  Visiting international staff include Karthek Krishnan of the software development consulting firm Mahaswami, Bangalore, India; Karim Gherab-Martin, Director of Common Ground Publishing-Spain, Portugal, and Latin America (Madrid, Spain); and Paresh Shah, Director of Common Ground Publishing-South Asia (Mumbai, India).

The week will culminate in education research partners Eugenia Arvanitis of the Greek Ministry of Education and Chryssi Vitsilaki, Vice Rector, University of the Aegean, Greece discussing the success of their Spring 2011 trialing of Common Ground Publishing’s Learning by Design web-planning and curriculum delivery environment, held in three clusters of schools in Greece (located in Patra, Thessaloniki, and Rhodes).  Drs. Arvanitis and Vitsilaki will present at the University of Illinois College of Education with Dean Mary Kalantzis, who, with Common Ground Publishing president Bill Cope, has led the project.  The foundational work for this project was funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education, and the Greek trials by the Pedagogical Institute of Greece and the Ministry of Education, Greece.  (Friday, October 21, 2011; 1:30-2:30 p.m.; Room 166 Education Building)

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