[ATTW-L] Invitation - Building Digital Literacy through Exploration and Curation - for next term
Jason Tham
thamx007 at umn.edu
Sat Nov 2 19:34:09 UTC 2019
November 2019
Dear ATTW members,
We (Ann Hill Duin <ahduin at umn.edu>, UMN; Jason Tham <jason.tham at ttu.edu>,
Texas Tech; Isabel Pedersen
<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2FIsabel.pedersen%40uoit.ca&data=02%7C01%7Cjason.tham%40ttu.edu%7C0e790fed62ff43468e4808d75fc96d93%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C637083191057878485&sdata=mLOc0YGoSorYyQbtee73M%2FNJJo5yV0qGvbKufliotZA%3D&reserved=0>,
Ontario Tech U) invite you to join us in collaborative exploration of Building
Digital Literacy through Exploration and Curation. We thank CPTSC, UMN,
Texas Tech, and OnTechU for support of this project.
Problem statement: Emerging technologies have been broadly and rapidly
embraced due to their promise of increased efficiency and the allure of
personalized data. Massive amounts of data are collected, mined, and used
to alter our behavior. As a result, we face a digital literacy crisis:
public understanding of immersive technologies has not kept pace with the
full potential of their benefits and perils.
Objective: The primary objective of this exploratory study is increased
understanding of student development of digital literacy as a result of
examining, contributing, and/or curating technological artifacts at The
Fabric of Digital Life (https://fabricofdigitallife.com/
<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffabricofdigitallife.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cjason.tham%40ttu.edu%7C0e790fed62ff43468e4808d75fc96d93%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C637083191057878485&sdata=FjJouY0nBjJHkOO2cWua%2Fe%2FjAJpDC6tJN9FAsIrX6pE%3D&reserved=0>),
an internationally-renowned digital research repository that includes
articles, images, videos, and media on wearables, carryables, implantables,
ingestibles, embeddables, and roboticals.
As part of a course module or assignment, students might
- *Examine: learn to explore existing content through artifacts;*
- *Contribute: learn to archive single items (media representations) and
understand existing keywords and metadata; and/or*
- *Curate: learn to archive collections of media representations related
to a theme. Here they develop/identify a novel set of keywords, applicable
to the collection.*
Pilot test: During Spring 2019, we developed and pilot tested instructional
materials to guide students in learning a common language of classification
to ground their understanding of technical emergence. One component is a
keyword schema that helps students to standardize the constantly evolving
language used to describe emerging technology.
Our use of the Fabric archive took place in both upper level technical
writing and advanced/graduate level courses as part of short (one week) to
longer (4 week) assignments. Students were thrilled to see their
collections published on the Fabric site! Please see the following
collections:
Course: Technical and Professional Writing; Jason Tham (instructor)
Collection: Emerging Technologies for Technical Communication
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Course: Technical and Professional Writing; Danielle Stambler (instructor)
Collection: Wearables and Carryables for Everyday Communication: Past,
Present, Future
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Course: International Professional Communication; Ann Hill Duin (instructor)
Collection: What Language Sounds Like: Wearable Devices in Translation
Communication
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Collection: Cultural Reality - A VR Experience
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Collection: AR From Conception to Reality
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Collection: Implanted and Embedded Medical Devices
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Initial CPTSC collaboration: During Fall 2019, instructors at six
institutions are participating and collaborating on this Building Digital
Literacy project:
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Daniel Hocutt <dhocutt at richmond.edu>, University of Richmond; focus on
instructional technology used in teaching writinG
-
John Misak
<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmisak%40nyit.edu&data=02%7C01%7Cjason.tham%40ttu.edu%7C0e790fed62ff43468e4808d75fc96d93%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C637083191057908469&sdata=xrMyf0SiVMoXLEOXoAbipXziDm902EKkwRV5geLmDCk%3D&reserved=0>,
New York Institute of Technology; focus on using Fabric to identify
human-centered design practice
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Nupoor Ranade
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North Carolina State University; focus on teaching the digital rhetoric of
artificial intelligence
- At UMN: Katlynne <davi2936 at umn.edu> Davis <davi2936 at umn.edu> (focus on
social media); Ann <ahduin at umn.edu> Hill Duin <ahduin at umn.edu>(focus on
emerging technologies in technical communication); Danielle
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Stambler
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(focus on emerging workplace technologies); and Chakrika
<veera019 at umn.edu> Veeramoothoo <veera019 at umn.edu> (focus on business
writing)
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At Fabric (Ontario University Institute of Technology): Isabel Pedersen
<Isabel.pedersen at uoit.ca> and Sharon Caldwell <caldwell.sharon at gmail.com>
.
Six of us also presented early results at the Fall CPTSC meeting (see
slides here
<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fpresentation%2Fd%2F1zQ7coMJZLdQZ6CSnVZT_C-AoPKi5jvHYz_7iP-6TrDM%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=02%7C01%7Cjason.tham%40ttu.edu%7C0e790fed62ff43468e4808d75fc96d93%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C0%7C637083191057918463&sdata=AynARxm7WTwl9yqJEsIEcjvlfqscyo6mIj%2B5e4Gl8U8%3D&reserved=0>).
Feel free to visit with any of us about this project.
Details / next steps: Please let us know of your
interest/participation/collaboration by no later than November 30, 2019 to
allow time for us to share instructional materials (during December 2019)
with you and to visit with you about your specific research and teaching
goals / learning outcomes.
If you agree to participate,
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we will share the instructional units to use (and revise as needed) for
student examination, contribution, and/or possible curation of collections
on emerging technologies;
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you agree to share with us the course, learning objectives, assignment
and timeline for specific exploration or development of collections as part
of an assignment in your course(s);
-
you invite students to share their work and to complete a short survey
on how this has influenced their understanding of digital literacy; and
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you provide a short (one page) reflection on your incorporation of an
exploration/curation assignment and its impact on building student
understanding of digital literacy.
We will also invite you to participate in bi-weekly research-focused
discussions with both us and other instructors about the impact of
repository exploration and collection curation on building student
understanding of digital literacy.
Thank you for considering the possibility of integrating exploration and
curation of emerging technologies as part of your upcoming Spring 2020
teaching. We look forward to hearing from you!
Best regards,
Ann, Jason, and Isabel
ahduin at umn.edu; jason.tham at ttu.edu; Isabel.pedersen at uoit.ca
Note: The IRB (at UMN) determined that this study meets the criteria for
exemption from IRB review. To arrive at this determination, the IRB used
“WORKSHEET: Exemption (HRP-312).”
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