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Breakout Session: Technofeminist Pedagogy & Community-Based Learning

Session Leaders: Erin Dietel-McLaughlin & Kristine Blair

Institutional Context

y What is the nature of the relationship between your home institution and thesurrounding communities?

y What review or approval process is required by your home institution?y How have community partnerships generally been pursued and/or perceived by your

institution, department, or program?

y What opportunities currently exist on your campus for developing community-basedlearning projects?

y What is the overall climate of technological support on your campus? How about in thesurrounding community?

y To what extent has technology been a key component of community-based learninginitiatives at your institution? Is technology part of the service? Part of the reflective

process? Something else?

Curriculum/Learning Outcomes

y Are you developing a version of an existing course? Are you developing an entirely newcourse? One unit of a course? Or, are you visualizing a project outside of the traditional

coursework setting?

y What should students/participants be able to do by way of this course or learninginitiative?

y How will the community partnership or service component of this project support yourprojected learning outcomes?

y How might technology be used to support those outcomes?y What major assignments do you anticipate requiring as part of the curriculum for this

project?What role might technology play in supporting the learning outcomes of those

assignments?

y What role will reflection play in this partnership? How can technology help to supportthat reflective process?

y How will students be graded?What impact will the service component have on theirgrade?

Community Partner Profile

y Do you already have a community partner in mind for this project? If so, what do youknow about that partner? If not, what opportunities exist for helping to identify

potential community partners?

y How will this community-based learning initiative benefit the community partner? Whatexpectations might the community partner have going into this project?

y How will the community partners perspectives be reflected in curricular materials?

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Resources

y What kinds of technological resources or training do you anticipate needing toeffectively implement this project? (for example: access to video cameras, computer lab

space, design software, etc)

y What financial resources might be available to help implement the initiative?Ways to Integrate Technology into Community-Based Learning

y Technology as Feminist Actiono using technology (social media, videos, video games, blogs,Web-based tools, etc) to

complicate or support readings that speak to issues of gender, race, class, disability,

equity, etc

o Designing technology-rich learning spaces to promote equity through functional, critical,and rhetorical literacies (job training at womens shelters, workshops for seniors, etc)

o Using technology as a means to promote awareness for feminist issues (violence againstwomen, GLBTQissues, discrimination in the workplace, womens health issues, etc)

o Example: Digital Mirror Camp for Girls(http://www.bgfile.com/feature_short/campus/digitalmirror/)

y Technology as Serviceo creating a website or social media presence for a community partnero training community members in particular technoliteracieso Example: Miriams Kitchen FB page

(http://www.facebook.com/miriamskitchen?sk=wall)

y Technology as Reflectiono using blogs as reflective journaling spaceso developing video diaries or recorded This I Believe essayso Example: Doreen Piano'sWriting After Katrina,

(http://www.nolacitymuseum.org/collections/show/13)

y Technology as Communityo creating virtual spaces for discussion and participationo Example: Service Learning & Virtual Worlds (http://fie-

conference.org/fie2010/papers/1183.pdf)

y Technology as Managemento establishing databases or using existing databases to link institution with community

partners

o conducting assessments with online surveys,o using listservs, social networking, etc. to foster communication with partnerso Example: Servenet.org database (http://servenet.org/Home/tabid/316/Default.aspx)