Remix & Mash Ups. Mister Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind | PBS Digital Studios. Diagnosis Wenckebach. After Convergence: YouTube and Remix Culture. Everything is a Remix Part 1. Remix, Play, and Remediation: Undertheorized Composing Practices.
Remixing History. Embrace the Remix. Remix culture. Remix culture, sometimes read-write culture, is a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new creative work or product.[2][3] A remix culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders.
While a common practice of artists of all domains throughout human history,[4] the growth of exclusive copyright restrictions in the last several decades limits this practice more and more by the legal chilling effect.[5] As reaction Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, who considers remixing a desirable concept for human creativity, works since the early 2000s[6][7] on a transfer of the remixing concept into the digital age.
Lessig founded the Creative Commons in 2001 which released Licenses as tools to enable remix culture again, as remixing is legally prevented by the default exclusive copyright regime applied currently on intellectual property. Why Remix Culture Needs New Copyright Laws. Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law. Walking on Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age. Remixing Education for the 21st Century. 7.7.10 | Doug Sery sees the future of education cross his desk as senior acquisitions editor for the new media, game studies and design group at MIT Press. When asked what innovation he’d like to see in the classroom, he said more remixing—the kind of creative experimentation young people do on their own by sampling music, splicing it into their own photos, or clipping excerpts from historical footage and adding it to a rap or spoken word.
Not exactly something you’d expect a traditional publisher to condone. But could it be a learning tool that engages kids where they’re at? This Behind the Research looks more closely at remixing as a tool for learning and discovers some interesting experiments going on, in and out of the classroom: Darrell Johnson, a Chicago public school teacher, discusses how remixing engages students in ways that prepare them for the future and why remixing is not plagiarism.Watch examples of remix projects from Chicago students at Carter G.
Remixing as a Classroom Strategy. 7.7.10 | When it comes to innovations in education, Doug Sery, an acquisitions editor at MIT Press in the new media, game studies and design group, has a simple request: “more remix technologies.” “[Remixing teaches] systems thinking; connecting ideas, information and experience, as well as collaboration,” Sery says. “In the 21st-century economy, those are the skills you will need to survive.” But what is remixing and how does it apply to learning? Remixing first gained widespread attention in the hip-hop world. Taking a cue from Jamaican dance music, artists such as Grandmaster Flash would incorporate recordings by other artists directly into their work. This ranged from short clips (Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” for the Beastie Boys) to re-imagining entire songs, as Run DMC did with Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way.”
“It was taking songs, splicing them together and making different creations,” says Sery. But Is It Plagiarism? Teaching 21st-Century Skills Challenges Ahead. Education Remix: Unlocking Creativity to Boost Learning. December 1, 2010 By: John Orlando, PhD in Teaching with Technology When considering the major advances in communication — from the printing press, to the telephone, to the television — each medium shared the characteristic of allowing either one-to-one communication or one-to-many communication. But social media changed all that. For the first time in history “many” can speak to “many,” and this has radically changed our world.
People are just starting to understand the fundamental transformation in communication that has occurred during the past five years, and some educators don’t believe in the power that social media can bring to learning. They think of social media as students sharing personal information on Facebook. One example is through the new remix culture.
While fun to create, a remix also can be used as a learning activity. Creating the video was a learning activity. Consider how remixing can foster engagement, creativity, and learning in your classes. Links Remix examples: