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 can we integrate digital skills in support of critical thinking and inquiry across the curriculum? The future of higher education depends upon an integrative vision of digitally-informed learning that is not merely content delivery online but rather is education reshaped in the same ways that digital technologies have already fundamentally changed our culture. This talk will present a vision for building a curriculum that develops self-directed, digitally-augmented problem-solving from introductory to capstone level courses and prepares graduates to partner with technology to solve problems.

1. Educating Problem-Solvers for
Our Emerging Digital Ecosystem
Rebecca Frost Davis, February 15, 2018
Endicott College

4. 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

7. Digitally Tuning Saxophone with iPhone App

10. Participatory Culture

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
Bass & Eynon, “Open and Integrative”,
(AACU, 2016) p. 13

13. THINK. PAIR. SHARE.
• How do you or your colleagues give students
practice in the emerging digital ecosystem?
– Networks
– Digital creation
– Data
• 2 minutes per person

15. Levy and Murnane, Dancing with Robots

16. GEMs Design Principles
• Proficiency
• Agency and Self-Direction
• Integrative Learning and Problem-Based Inquiry
• Equity
• Transparency and Assessment

17. Integrative Learning and
Problem-Based Inquiry
• Integration of curricular, cocurricular, and
community-based learning, as well as prior
learning experiences
• In local, global, and virtual communities and
networks
• Demonstrate proficiencies through inquiry into
unscripted questions and problems

19. What Is Signature Work?
Signature work asks students to
1. integrate and
2. apply their learning
3. to complex problems and projects
4. that are important to the student
5. and important to society

22. https://github.com/shawngraham/hist3812a
Slidefromhttp://slides.com/shawngraham/minecraftedhistory#/

23. 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

24. Social learning
• Document research process
• Share research resources
• Share references
• Aggregate projects on blog
– Maps
– Tags
– Concept maps
– Mashups

25. Principle 1: Proficiency
Colleges and universities should provide clear
statements of desired learning outcomes for all
students, as well as design curricula and
experiences that lead to the development of
proficiencies that are demonstrated at
progressively higher levels.

26. Scaffolding Signature Work in
the Emerging Digital
Ecosystem

27. Critical Reading through Social
Annotation

28. Community-Engaged Annotation

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

30. Wild Basin Biodiversity

31. Playing with Text Analysis
http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflections-on-a-text-analysis-assignment/

33. Journals: Online Community Participation

34. Wikistorming &
Networked
Learning

35. Storymapping
http://storymapping.blogs.muhlenberg.edu/

36. What works for you?
A. Social annotation
B. Mobile data gathering (citizen science)
C. Text Analysis
D. Reflecting on personal data (FitBits)
E. Engaging virtual communities
F. Wikistorming
G. Storymapping
H. Digital scholarship

37. Course
Ongoing
faculty
project
Virtual Spaces
Intercampus
Collaboration
Community
Engagement

38. Scaffolded Curriculum
Using Digital
Tools &
Resources
Contributing
to Digital
Tools &
Resources
Producing
Digital Tools
& Resources