Designing for Agency in the Emerging Digital EcosystemRebecca Frost DavisCritical Digital Pedagogy, UNT, October 13, 2016
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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
Pressure Gauge by William WarbySteam Museum, Kew London
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Degree Gap
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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
IntercampusCollaboraNon
CommunityEngagement
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Scaffolded Curriculum
UsingDigitalTools&Resources
ContribuNngtoDigitalTools&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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