Teaching in the Digital Age, Part II: Working and Learning with Media in New Ways

Join your colleagues for a discussion on ways to engage students and promote learning through assignments that complicate and extend students’ understandings of the role technologies - both new and not so new - play in communicative practice. Helen Burgess and Jody Shipka from English share ways that they have used older forms of media to introduce students to digital concepts and practices. The discussion will center on how the assignments invite students to explore the intersection between digital and analog media, how to assess those assignments, how students have evaluated them, and how you might adopt similar assignments in your own courses. Lunch will be provided.