Comments on: Digital Literacy for the Dumbest Generation http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/21/digital-literacy-for-the-dumbest-generation/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: thuyanh http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/21/digital-literacy-for-the-dumbest-generation/#comment-14468 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:52:08 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=529#comment-14468 A friend and I have actually made a video response that defends the “dumbest generation” and we make points that Baeurlein overlooks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHw716ptwBg

]]> By: Cactus Acide » » L’observatoire du neuromancien 06/07/2010 http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/21/digital-literacy-for-the-dumbest-generation/#comment-265 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:31:42 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=529#comment-265 […] THATCamp 2010 » Blog Archive […]

]]> By: Jeffrey McClurken http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/21/digital-literacy-for-the-dumbest-generation/#comment-264 Sun, 23 May 2010 03:16:14 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=529#comment-264 UPDATE: Rough notes from this session (co-led by Tanya Clement, Ethan Watrall, Brian Croxall, Jeff McClurken and many others) can be found at docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddz3r8kz_65ggjm74f3

]]> By: burmamusic http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/21/digital-literacy-for-the-dumbest-generation/#comment-263 Sat, 22 May 2010 15:10:11 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=529#comment-263 new undergrad program at Arizona State: ame.asu.edu/

]]> By: Jeffrey McClurken http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/21/digital-literacy-for-the-dumbest-generation/#comment-262 Sat, 22 May 2010 09:51:24 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=529#comment-262 I’m with Rob. This is an essential conversation for us to be having at a place like THATCamp.

I wonder if a session or sessions related to DH teaching/classes/curriculum might produce a document (or if that’s too grand an idea, a list) of what we see as the core competencies/content areas for an undergraduate DH class/curriculum. Such a document could then be submitted to Tom and Dan’s Hacking the Academy volume.

Beyond what you (and Rob and I) proposed, we need to link this with the other sessions proposed in this area, including those by Dave Parry, Bill Ferster, Brian Croxall, as well as the work done by Amanda French at NYU.

]]> By: Rob Nelson http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/21/digital-literacy-for-the-dumbest-generation/#comment-261 Fri, 21 May 2010 17:38:30 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=529#comment-261 This is a great topic. A number of people–including myself–have expressed interest in having a session to exchange ideas about designing a digital humanities course. I’d definitely be interested in a companion session on digital-humanities or digital-humanities-“inflected” curricula. Being an active, engaged, and critical reader of texts rather than a passive consumer of information is (obviously) very much at the heart of the humanities and the liberal arts. Given the ubiquity of new media, how central is the digital humanities to that aim of the humanities more generally? After reading your post I’m wondering how much the “dumbest generation” is a challenge for humanists and the humanities generally to teach general skills of critical interrogation of texts and how much that poses a challenge and an opportunity for digital humanists and the digital humanities specifically. Is talking about “texts” too general and generic, and a digital humanities “inflected” curriculum necessary to teach students to engage particular kinds of texts–i.e. new media texts–or to approach conventional texts using new techniques and tools like text mining?

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