Digital Pedagogy Keywords

Rebecca Frost DavisAustin College Digital Humanities

Colloquium, February 20, 2013

#acdhcoll #nitle #digipedkit

NITLE www.nitle.org

• National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education

• NITLE helps liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology.

• Future of Liberal Education• Digital Humanities

Defining Digital Humanities

“By “digital humanities” we mean learning about, with, and through technology–making it, thinking about it, including it in pedagogy and institutional transformation.”

http://www.cathydavidson.com/2012/01/digital-literacy-an-agenda-for-the-21st-century

/

Cathy Davidson

Globally Networked World

Global Network by Flickr User WebWizzard

Multimodality

• Linguistic (verbal)• Visual• Audio• Gestural• Tactile• Spatial

Increased capacity

• Explosion of data • Exponential advances in computation storage

and bandwidth• Ubiquity of access, e.g., mobile devices

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

Networks

Mass Industrialization

Mass CustomizationAmazon

Small Liberal Arts Colleges

Humanities ProjectsLocal

The Long Tail

Responses

• Delivery strategies: – Flipped classroom– Hybrid learning– MOOCs– Gamification

• Learning outcomes: – Jobs– Skills– Multiliteracies

Pedagogical Experimentation

• Digital tools and platforms impacting academic practice

• Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics, ed. Brett Hirsch, 2013

• http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/161

MLA 2012: A project is born

Matt Gold

Kathy Harris

Jentery Sayers

Rebecca Davis

Digital Pedagogy Reader and Toolkit

No

• Reflective Essays about teaching• Organized by discipline• Remediation of digital into print• Static• Isolated

Yes

• Born digital• Curation of Pedagogical artifacts• Multi- & Cross-disciplinary• Interactive living archive • Networked • Tagged• Open

Digital Pedagogy Keywords

What are your keywords? List 5.

Tweet them.

#acdhcoll #nitle #digipedkit

Audience & Context

• Digital humanities• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning• Epistemological shift in disciplines • How digital context calls for deep changes in

how we teach and learn

Keywords

• Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1975 & 1983)

• Defining discourse• Building discourse across domains• Revealing tensions

Collaboration

Collaboration

• Ability to work in a team• Collaborative learning• Participatory culture• Group project• Needed for liberal arts colleges• Characteristic of Digital Humanities

Potential Resources

Introductory Essay

• Classification• Context• Tensions

Types of Collaboration

1. Students contributing to an existing project 2. Students participating in crowdsourcing

projects3. Students producing their own project

Wheaton College Digital History Project

• Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History

• History methods course• Transcribing & encoding

archives• Partners: archivist,

technologist, librarian

Day BookDaily accounting of transactions that reflect the many business activities of Laban Morey Wheaton between 1828 and 1859

NEH DH Start-up grant: Encoding Financial Records for Historical Research

Collaborative Research Assignment

• Stage 1: Background Reading in Secondary Sources

• Stage 2: Transcription and Coding of Daybook Page Spreads

• Stage 3: Writing and Editing Episodes for the History Engine

• Stage 4: Writing a Paper Based on Primary Sources

Google Doc for Collecting Data

Process Checklist for Integrating Digital Humanities Projects into Courses

1. Connecting Course and Project2. Scaffolding and Chunking3. Collaborative Teaching4. Logistics

http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/process-checklist-for-integrating-digital-humanities-projects-into-courses/

Lexomics, Wheaton College

• Computer science, statistics & Old English texts

• Connections• English-Computer

Science Team-Teaching– Computing for Poets (Co

mp 131)

– Connection (Computing and Texts)

http://www.robcottingham.ca/cartoon/archive/2007-08-07-crowdsourced

/

Undergrad Sourcing

Digital Monkeys

The Office Monkey by Flickr user Shaz Wildcat

Teamwork VALUE Rubric

Teamwork is behaviors under the control of individual team members (effort they put into team tasks, their manner of interacting with others on team, and the quantity and quality of contributions they make to team discussions.)

http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/pdf/teamwork.pdf

What Else?

• Resources?• Tensions?• Aspects of pedagogy?

Other Keywords

• Public• Play (screwing around)• Failure• Multimodal• Praxis• Community• Text Analysis

New or Reinvented Methodologies

• Multimodal• Programming• Storytelling• Text analysis

Pedagogy in a Digital Context

• Collaboration • Community • Failure • Play • Praxis • Public

New Locales for Pedagogy

• Community • GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums)• MOOC • Public

Keyword Groups

• Play vs. Work• Play and Failure• Interface, Remix, Virtuality• Race, Queer, Ability, Sexuality

Format

• Collection not linear narrative or hierarchical• Searchable• Descriptive tagging• Remix & Contribute• Planned updates

What are your keywords?

Keywords & Curators

AbilityCollaborationCommunityCompositionFailureGLAMInformation ScienceInterface

MOOCMultimodalPlayPraxisProgrammingPublicQueerRace

RemixRhetoricSexualityStorytellingText AnalysisVirtualityWork

Other Suggestions

• Place-based / Mapping / Geospatial

• 3-D• Material culture• Mobile• Interactive• Nonlinear• Game

• Data• Visualization• Design• Activism• Touch / Gesture• Fieldwork• Gender