liberal education in the emerging digital ecosystem
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Liberal Education in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem!http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/!@frostdavis!
Moravian College, March 20, 2015
GEMs Design Principles!• Proficiency!• Agency and Self-Direction!• Integrative Learning and Problem-Based Inquiry!• Equity!• Transparency and Assessment!
Where and from whom do you, as a professional, learn outside
of the formal classroom, keynote, workshop or conference session?!
h"p://bit.ly/libedunbound
Participatory Culture!• Low barriers to artistic expression and civic
engagement !• Strong support for creating and sharing one’s
creations!• Informal mentorship by most experienced for
novices!• Members believe their contributions matter!• Some degree of social connection!Henry Jenkins, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory
Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century!!
Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments!• General Editors !– Rebecca Frost Davis, St. Edward's University !– Matthew K. Gold, City Tech & Graduate Center, City
University of New York !– Katherine D. Harris, San José State University !– Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria!
• https://github.com/curateteaching/!• #curateteaching!
Playing with Text Analysis!
h;p://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflecKons-‐on-‐a-‐text-‐analysis-‐assignment/
Scaffolded Curriculum!
Using Digital Tools & Resources
ContribuKng to Digital Tools & Resources
Producing Digital Tools & Resources
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Situating the Global Environment!
• Lewis & Clark College!• https://sge.lclark.edu/ !• Jim Proctor,
“Situated Social Learning”!
• Interdisciplinary environmental research!
• Situated research!– Local focus on global
issues!
Social learning!• Document research process!• Share research resources!• Share references !• Aggregate projects on blog!
– Maps!– Tags!– Concept maps!– Mashups!
Frank Levy, and Richard Murnane. Dancing with Robots: Human Skills for Computerized Work. third way, 2013. !!http://www.thirdway.org/publications/714 !
Digitally-Informed General Education!
• Practice building learning networks & learning in the ecosystem!
• Dissolving boundaries of the course!• Digitally-augmented problem solving—
repeatedly. !• Dancing with Robots!!