Designing for Agency with the Digital Liberal ArtsRebecca Frost DavisSeptember 29, 2016

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Digital Liberal Arts

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Participatory Culture

Emerging Digital Ecosystem •  Shaped by networks, which are fundamentally

social; •  Characterized by horizontal access to creation

and production; and •  Increasingly driven by data, algorithms, and

artificial intelligence that personalize information for users and inform human judgment

Emerging Digital Ecosystem •  Shaped by networks, which are fundamentally

social; •  Characterized by horizontal access to creation

and production; and •  Increasingly driven by data, algorithms, and

artificial intelligence that personalize information for users and inform human judgment

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GEMs Design Principles•  Proficiency•  Agency and Self-Direction•  Integrative Learning and Problem-Based Inquiry•  Equity•  Transparency and Assessment

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Levy and Murnane, Dancing with Robots

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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

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Social learning•  Document research process•  Share research resources•  Share references •  Aggregate projects on blog

–  Maps–  Tags–  Concept maps–  Mashups

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Scaffolding Signature Work in the Emerging Digital

Ecosystem

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Critical Reading through Social Annotation

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Citizen Science•  iNaturalist app: http://www.inaturalist.org/

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Wild Basin Biodiversity

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Playing with Text Analysis

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Wikistorming & Networked Learning

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Storymappinghttp://storymapping.blogs.muhlenberg.edu/

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What works for you?A.  Social annotationB.  Mobile data gathering (citizen science)C.  Text AnalysisD.  Reflecting on Personal data (FitBits)E.  WikistormingF.  StorymappingG.  Digital Scholarship

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Course

Ongoingfacultyproject

VirtualSpaces

IntercampusCollaboraKon

CommunityEngagement

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Scaffolded Curriculum

UsingDigitalTools&Resources

ContribuKngtoDigitalTools&Resources

ProducingDigitalTools&Resources

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Thank youSt. Edward’s University

Thank you.St. Edward’s University

Thank you.St. Edward’s University

Thank you.St. Edward’s University

Thank you.St. Edward’s University

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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

Slides and References•  http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/•  Twitter: –  @frostdavis–  #BlendLAC16

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