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    

I  Found  a  Diamond:  h;p://youtu.be/XaVDspBuEmM    

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!

Slides and References!•  http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/!•  Twitter: @frostdavis!

Critical Reading through Social Annotation!

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

Wild Basin Biodiversity!

Playing with Text Analysis!

h;p://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflecKons-­‐on-­‐a-­‐text-­‐analysis-­‐assignment/    

Wikistorming & Networked Learning!

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

17 Global Digital Classroom!

Learning Ecosystem!

Scaffolded Curriculum!

Using  Digital  Tools  &  Resources  

ContribuKng  to  Digital  Tools  &  Resources  

Producing  Digital  Tools  &  Resources  

h;ps://github.com/shawngraham/hist3812a     Slide  from

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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!

Course  

Ongoing  faculty  project  

Virtual  Spaces  

Intercampus  CollaboraKon  

Community  Engagement  

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!!

Thank you!St. 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!