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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
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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
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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
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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