Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

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

Presenter: Prof. Tara Affolter, Assistant Professor of Education Studies, Middlebury College
Monday, January 15, CTLR, 11:00-12:15, followed by lunch
Register online at http://sites.middlebury.edu/ctlrjan2018/portfolio/tara-affolter/

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

Middlebury’s strategic framework identifies digital fluency and critical engagement as one of our key strategic directions. In this interactive hands-on session, Mike Roy (Dean of the Library) and Amy Collier (Associate Provost for Digital Learning) explore various facets of critical digital fluency, why it matters, and what we might do within and beyond the curriculum to develop our own and our students’ fluencies.

Lunch served. Please RSVP at the URL below.

Please join us to hear from Rick Jones, director/founder of Jones Architecture (http://www.jonesarch.com/) who will present on his work in the planning and execution of learning space renovations at Dartmouth, MIT, Northeastern and Norwich University. His presentation will reflect on current and future trends in library programming, research spaces and collaborative learning environments. Please RSVP for lunch.

Presenter: Dr. Lauren Herckis, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, January 11th, 11:00-12:15, CTLR, followed by lunch
Register online at http://sites.middlebury.edu/ctlrjan2018/portfolio/test-project/

If you are feeling overwhelmed with work and struggling with procrastination then visit the Anti-Procrastination Station in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) in LIB 225 on Mondays and Fridays.

Learning Resources’ ACE tutors will be running the station to coach on getting unstuck and give out rewards.

Mondays: 10:00 am-noon, 4:00-6:00 pm, and 7:45-9:45 pm | Fridays: 3:00-5:00 pm

If you are feeling overwhelmed with work and struggling with procrastination then visit the Anti-Procrastination Station in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) in LIB 225 on Mondays and Fridays.

Learning Resources’ ACE tutors will be running the station to coach on getting unstuck and give out rewards.

Mondays: 10:00 am-noon, 4:00-6:00 pm, and 7:45-9:45 pm | Fridays: 3:00-5:00 pm

If you are feeling overwhelmed with work and struggling with procrastination then visit the Anti-Procrastination Station in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) in LIB 225 on Mondays and Fridays.

Learning Resources’ ACE tutors will be running the station to coach on getting unstuck and give out rewards.

Mondays: 10:00 am-noon, 4:00-6:00 pm, and 7:45-9:45 pm | Fridays: 3:00-5:00 pm