What skills, abilities, and habits of mind do today’s graduates need for their careers and to solve complex problems in a constantly changing, globally-connected world? How do we integrate liberal education with learning in a digital context? The future of liberal education depends upon an integrative vision of digitally-informed learning that is not merely content delivery online but rather is reshaped in the same ways that digital learning has already fundamentally changed our culture. This talk will present a vision for implementing liberal education in the emerging digital ecosystem and developing a curriculum that scaffolds self-directed, digitally-augmented problem-solving from introductory to capstone level courses.

1. Designing for Agency in the
Emerging Digital Ecosystem
Rebecca Frost Davis
Walsh University, May 5, 2017
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3. 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

6. Image from The Guardian,
h2ps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/21/pokemon-go-gathering-san-francisco

7. Participatory Culture

9. 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

11. 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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13. GEMs Design Principles
• Proficiency
• Agency and Self-Direction
• Integrative Learning and Problem-Based Inquiry
• Equity
• Transparency and Assessment
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14. Levy and Murnane, Dancing with Robots
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18. h2ps://github.com/shawngraham/hist3812a
Slide from h2p://slides.com/shawngraham/minecraHedhistory#/
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19. 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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20. Social learning
• Document research process
• Share research resources
• Share references
• Aggregate projects on blog
– Maps
– Tags
– Concept maps
– Mashups
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21. Scaffolding Signature Work in
the Emerging Digital
Ecosystem
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22. Critical Reading through Social
Annotation
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23. Citizen Science
• iNaturalist app: http://www.inaturalist.org/
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24. Wild Basin Biodiversity
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25. Playing with Text Analysis
h2p://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflecKons-on-a-text-analysis-assignment/
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27. Wikistorming &
Networked
Learning
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28. Storymapping
http://storymapping.blogs.muhlenberg.edu/
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29. What works for you?
A. Social annotation
B. Mobile data gathering (citizen science)
C. Text Analysis
D. Reflecting on Personal data (FitBits)
E. Wikistorming
F. Storymapping
G. Digital Scholarship
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30. Course
Ongoing
faculty
project
Virtual Spaces
Intercampus
CollaboraKon
Community
Engagement
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31. Scaffolded Curriculum
Using Digital
Tools &
Resources
ContribuKng
to Digital
Tools &
Resources
Producing
Digital Tools
& Resources
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32. Thank you
St. Edward’s University
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St. Edward’s University
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St. Edward’s University
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St. Edward’s University
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St. Edward’s University
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h2p://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/