Designing for Agency in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem

Rebecca Frost Davis, July 15, 2015

Institute for Integrative Learning & the Departments

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GEMs Design Principles• Proficiency• Agency and Self-Direction• Integrative Learning and Problem-Based Inquiry• Equity• Transparency and Assessment

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Where and from whom do you, as a professional, learn outside of the formal classroom, keynote, workshop or

conference session?

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Where do you learn for personal, social, and civic

activities?

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Learning Ecosystem

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Situating the Global Environment

• Lewis & Clark College• https://sge.lclark.edu/ • Jim Proctor,

“Situated Social Learning”

• Interdisciplinary environmental research

• Situated research– Local focus on global

issues

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Social learning• Document research process• Share research resources• Share references • Aggregate projects on blog

– Maps– Tags– Concept maps– Mashups

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Scaffolding Signature Work in the Emerging Digital

Ecosystem

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Critical Reading through Social Annotation

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Citizen Science• iNaturalist app: http://www.inaturalist.org/

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Wild Basin Biodiversity

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Playing with Text Analysis

http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflections-on-a-text-analysis-assignment/

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Wikistorming & Networked Learning

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Storymappinghttp://storymapping.blogs.muhlenberg.edu/

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Scaffolded Curriculum

Using Digital Tools & Resources

Contributing to Digital Tools & Resources

Producing Digital Tools & Resources

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Course

Ongoing faculty project

Virtual Spaces

Intercampus Collaboration

Community Engagement

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Digitally-Informed General Education

• Practice building learning networks & learning in the ecosystem

• Dissolving boundaries of the course• Digitally-augmented problem solving—

repeatedly. • Dancing with Robots

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Breakouts1. Draw learning ecosystem of your students. Where

does your institution have links out? (5 minutes)

2. Design Signature Work for this ecosystem.

3. Scaffold this Signature Work in the curriculum.

4. List institutional resource and challenges for implementing this idea for signature work.

5. Post results:

http://bit.ly/ecosystemsignaturework

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Building our Toolkit• Briefly share signature work and challenges.• What are strategies for addressing these

challenges?

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Thank youSt. Edward’s University

Thank you.St. Edward’s University

Thank you.St. Edward’s University

Thank you.St. Edward’s University

Thank you.St. Edward’s University

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