National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education Online Seminar Speakers: Alexandra Juhasz Professor of Media Studies Pitzer College, Los Angeles And Anne Balsamo Dean of the School of Media Studies New School for Public Engagement, New York Event Hashtag: #FemTechNet
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National Institute forTechnology in Liberal EducationOnline Seminar
Speakers:Alexandra JuhaszProfessor of Media StudiesPitzer College, Los Angeles
And
Anne BalsamoDean of the School of Media StudiesNew School for Public Engagement, New York
Event Hashtag: #FemTechNet
FemTechNetA global network of scholars and artists who work at the intersections offeminism, science and technology
Key Objectives
•To develop innovative uses for digital technologies that serve important cultural and social needs
•To involve women and girls in discussions about the history of feminist engagement with technology
•To demonstrate feminist contribution to technological innovation
•To contribute to the digital archive of the history of technology
DOCC: An Alternative MOOCDistributed Online Collaborative Course
Key Objectives
•Recognizes and engages expertise DISTRIBUTED throughout a network
•Approaches learning as a MIXED-MODE and BLENDED experience
•Designed through COLLABORATIVE peer-to-peer process
•Collaborative creation of HISTORICAL cultural archive
•Collaborative EXPERIMENT in use of online pedagogies
Initial CommitmentsKey Challenges
•Cultural ignorance of the general history of technology and science
•Wide-spread ignorance of the historical relationship between women and technological innovation
•Lack of understanding about the contribution of feminist theory to technocultural innovation
•Authoritative structure of institutionalized MOOCs
•Persistent difficult in engaging women and girls in STEM fields & projects
Initial CommitmentsKey Opportunities
•Extensive global network of feminist experts in science and technology
•Deep history of innovative feminist engagement with technology
•Cross-disciplinary dispersion of feminist expertise
•Feminist design thinking
•History of innovative pedagogical practice among feminist teachers
•New digital technology infrastructures
Feminist Learning Design2013 DOCC: Dialogues in Feminism and Technology
Approaches the creation of a MOOCfrom the perspective of feminist STS and media arts
Ten Week Course: September – November, 2013
Ten – Twelve VIDEO DIALOGUES
Shared Learning Materials: BOTLs
Collaborative Learning Activity: STORMING WIKIPEDIA