Welcome to Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Core 1!

We are delighted to welcome and invite you to join us this fall in exploring interactive technology and pedagogy through a series of in person sessions, online activities and discussions, and insights, both shared and individual.

How have technologies and pedagogies shaped higher education in the United States? In this course, we will examine the economic, social, and intellectual histories of the design and use of technology and pedagogy and the expression of these in current higher education  practices in the United States. Through shared readings, viewings, and discussion, we will focus on the interdependence of technology and academic teaching, learning, in particular on questions regarding how systemic oppressions have shaped higher education and how the struggles between and among identities and historical injustice are transforming knowledge production in the present. By examining the use and design of technologies inside and outside of the university, we will reflect on the increasing hybridization of humans and technology, both individually and collectively, and we will examine our own roles and choices as technological humans and human(e) technologies.

Through our in person and online interactions, we will explore the theoretical and practical possibilities of digital media for teaching, research, reading, writing, activism, collaborative knowledge production, and gaming. We will invite each other to leverage new, multimodal approaches for creating scholarship by identifying potential collaborators and audiences for research and publication in addition to designing and testing prototypes towards scholarly contributions in our disciplinary fields as well as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.