Building Liberal Arts Capacities through Digital Social Learning!Rebecca Frost Davis, September 18, 2015!Smith College!

Genera&on  Z:  Connected  from  Birth  Born  mid-­‐1990s  -­‐  2010  

 “Bloom’s  Taxonomy  1k4snjn”  by  nist6dh  is  licensed  under  CC  BY  2.0  

Globally Networked World!

Global  Network  by  Flickr  User  WebWizzard  

Emerging Digital Ecosystem!

Frank  Levy,  and  Richard  Murnane.  Dancing  with  Robots:  Human  Skills  for  Computerized  Work.  third  way,  2013,  p.  18.  hNp://www.thirdway.org/publica&ons/714.    

Building Liberal Arts

Capacities in the Emerging

Digital Ecosystem!

Scaffolding!

Critical Reading through Social Annotation!

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

Wild Basin Biodiversity!

Playing with Text Analysis!

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Wikistorming & Networked Learning!

Scaffolded Curriculum!

Using  Digital  Tools  &  Resources  

Contribu&ng  to  Digital  Tools  &  Resources  

Producing  Digital  Tools  &  Resources  

Course  

Ongoing  faculty  project  

Virtual  Spaces  

Intercampus  Collabora&on  

Community  Engagement  

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!

Digitally-Informed Liberal 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!

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