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!
hNp://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflec&ons-­‐on-­‐a-­‐text-­‐analysis-­‐assignment/	
  	
  
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!
hNp://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/	
  	
  

Building Liberal Arts Capacities through Digital Social Learning