Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Public talk by writer and activist Eli Clare, drawing from his book _Brilliant Imperfection_.

Join us on Tuesday, April 17th from 12:15-1:30pm for our next Behind the Scenes presentation.

Sarah Laursen is researching ancient Chinese gold for a book project and an exhibition that will be held at the Middlebury College Museum of Art in the fall of 2019. She will discuss the process of creating a database to organize her English and Chinese data, as well as her preparations for the exhibition, which will include 3D digital models made using photogrammetry, interactive maps, and videos about metalsmithing.

Join us on Tuesday, February 20th from 12:15-1:30pm for our next Behind the Scenes presentation.

Meet and discuss “The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux” with Professor Cathy N. Davidson prior to her talk in Dana Auditorium at 4:30 pm. Register online at http://sites.middlebury.edu/ctlrjan2018/portfolio/cathy-davidson/.

Meet and discuss “The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux” with Professor Cathy N. Davidson prior to her talk in Dana Auditorium at 4:30 pm. Register online at http://sites.middlebury.edu/ctlrjan2018/portfolio/cathy-davidson/.

Please join us for lunch on Wednesday, April 4th, from 12 pm-1:30 pm in the CTLR Lounge for the first gathering in our Digital Fluencies series. Databases undergird almost every digital publishing project, platform, interface, and tool. How do we better understand what databases are—and what they can be—as a key aspect of the digital liberal arts? We’ll gather to explore the topic. Faculty, students, and staff at all levels are welcome to attend participate regardless of digital skills.

We increasingly live in an algorithmic society, our everyday lives shaped by interactions with Google searches, social media platforms, artificial intelligence software, and myriad devices and programs that rely on the execution of computational algorithms. Algorithms at once bake into their equations the assumptions and biases of their human makers and also take on lives of their own, for we now even have computational algorithms developing other algorithms. But what are algorithms, exactly? Is all thinking, computational or not, algorithmic in some manner?

9:00 – 9:30 -Registration & Light Breakfast – CTLR

9:30 – 10:45 - Mind Games: Teaching Hard Books and Big Events Through Role-Play, Workshop by Patrick Coby, Smith College
Davis FamilyLibrary105 A & B

11:00 – 12:15 - Panel Discussion 1: Inspiring Deep Student Engagement, Ellery Foutch (American Studies), Pete Johnson (Computer Science), Jim Ralph (History)
Davis Family Library 201

11:00 – 12:15 - The Table at Which a Community of Learners Gathers, Workshop by John Elder - CTLR

Keynote:


John Elder will focus on some of the ways in which the teacher, the interactions among students, and the subject-matter of a given class can all foster a vibrant, exciting educational experience.

In The Narrow Edge, winner of the 2016 Academies of Science Best Book Award, and the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Deborah Cramer accompanies small sandpipers along their extraordinary migration from the tip of South America up into their Arctic nesting grounds, exploring how their lives are intertwined with ours.