Digital Gardner Project
- Identification of digital literacy co-conspirators, these are other like minded faculty who are interested in adding more digital literacy to their class experience
- Site for scaling up expertise not just in the technology but in thinking through its pedagogical applications.
- Motivation and a pathway for fruitful idea/project development
Event Participation
Faculty Collaborators Comments
"This editathon is the final project for my L385—Science Fiction course. Rather than having students write a term paper at the end of the semester, I opted to experiment with this as a final project because it allows students to engage in public scholarship and produce knowledge that extends beyond an online, asynchronous classroom. "
"I spoke with a number of my students after this event and all of them had very high praise for you all. Please continue doing work like this. It’s needed. It’s not only purposeful, it’s essential. As literacy rates in the U.S. continue to decline, recruiting young scholars to provide accurate information to the public is not only an exercise with serious academic merit, it’s also an act of cultural resistance that is desperately needed today." ~Dr. Auckerman
"I was initially worried that my students may not have the capacity to engage with something like this. I also did not think that my instruction would be helpful enough in explaining the details provided by Dr. Piper. So, I was pleased with t he visit from Jere Odell and Dr. Piper because it seemed to ease the student’s anxiety and my own because the student’s expressed that they felt more prepared and comfortable approaching the activity."
"I found the event to be incredibly interesting and a great way to introduce my students to a new scholarly experience while broadening their participation in an innovative activity. I do not have any critiques, but more of an appeal for more events such as the Editathon because I think it is exposure students at the institution need to understand more about techno culture beyond social media."
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