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Thursday 15th January 2009 8:00 am

[Reblogged] Cathy Davidson: Digital Media and Learning at MLA

We reblog recent posts from one of HASTAC’s co-founders that reflect on the digital media and learning sessions at the recent MLA Convention.

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In her three-part post Cathy Davidson discusses the Twitter/ MIcroblogging session, “Digital Media and Learning and Twitter at MLA,” and reprises her presentation on ”Humanities 2.0: Participatory Learning in an Age of Technology” which featured three winners of the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. The session was chaired by by Zita Nunes and featured Howard Rheingold (Social Media Classroom), Todd Pressner (Hypercities), Greg Niemeyer and Antero Garcia (Black Cloud).

“I do not believe that the dreary decline in English majors that the MLA duly reports on every year is inevitable. But I do believe it is inevitable if we, as a profession, refuse to go through the work that so many of our peers in the arts, social sciences, and natural and biological sciences have gone through of carefully examining our assumptions, our goals, and our decline in light of the Information Age that should be our finest hour, the moment which, as a profession, we are trained to attend to most sensitively, acutely, historically, rhetorically, and critically.

If we are missing the boat of the Information Age as teachers trained in the art of close reading, compelling writing, and critical thinking, then, well, sorry folks, we deserve to sink.

The three projects presented at this MLA session are thriving, not because of their digital affordances but because their participants are deeply engaged with the project of thinking and rethinking in this complex and changing world.”

Read the full posts here:  Part I, Part II, Part III.

Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

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