Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

In this session of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts Series, come and learn about the framework of executive function support, why it promotes accessibility, and get practical support in evaluating digital tools to support executive function for your classroom. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by January 17th.

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

Join the CTLR and the Rethinking Grading Community of Practice in a discussion with Susan Blum, author of “Ungrading,” (Inside Higher Ed, November 14, 2017) and the recent book I Love Learning; I Hate School: An Anthropology of College, on the role of grades and grading in higher education. Faculty are encouraged to share their efforts to de-emphasize grades in a structure where grades are (still) required.
Lunch provided, please register by Jan. 23

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

This lunchtime talk, by Professor Daryle Williams of the University of Maryland, will cover one historian’s journey through a burgeoning academic subfield known as black digital humanities.  Special focus will be placed on the structural, circumstantial, and accidental conditions that led a somewhat conventional text-bound humanist to embrace digital tools of inquiry, analysis, and knowledge production.

In this part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts Series, James Chase Sanchez argues that contemporary rhetoric of white supremacy is built around structures of preservation. Using ethnographic and autoethnographic research (along with film footage) from his hometown of Grand Saline, Sanchez pinpoints the ways communities preserve their white supremacy via tactics of identity-formation, storytelling, and silencing. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by January 16.

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

Part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts J-Term Series, these workshops focused on Project Based Learning will be led by guest speakers, Kristin Boudreau and Rick Vaz from Worchester Polytech Institute. For more details and to register see the Faculty Development Calendar at go/ctlr.

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

Part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts J-Term Series, these workshops focused on Project Based Learning will be led by guest speakers, Kristin Boudreau and Rick Vaz from Worchester Polytech Institute. For more details and to register see the Faculty Development Calendar at go/ctlr.

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

Join Dr. Jennifer Domagal-Goldman for a discussion and workshop on how to incorporate civic learning and engagement into disciplinary courses—and why this is important. Discussion will include theoretical frameworks utilized in the field, high impact pedagogies for facilitating civic learning, and a brainstorming activity about bringing discipline-specific content and pedagogy into existing or new courses.

Part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts Series, in this session we’ll tackle the digital elephant in the room by taking a look at our assumptions and experiences around technology in the classroom. By using the challenge of the tech-distracted student as an opportunity to look at our own teaching, we’ll identify strategies for creating inclusive learning environments that support focused, authentic, present-in-the-moment learning — even in the presence of digital devices. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by January 2nd.

The “fair use” section of the U.S. Code (17 U.S. Code §107) contains barely 170 words, and yet these few words have enormous consequences for many crucial spheres of activity in our society. Fair use allows journalists to quote sources in their reporting, reviewers and commenters to reproduce portions of works under discussion, and provides researchers with the freedom to build upon ideas and discoveries that have preceded them. In other words, it is a key component in the promotion of the “sciences and useful arts” as laid out in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

Patrick Wallace (Digital Projects & Archives Librarian) will introduce a selection of current techniques used to harvest web and social media content for preservation and research. Rather than a user tutorial or deep dive into technical arcana, the discussion will draw on examples from Special Collections’ digital projects to illustrate how popular websites and mobile applications—such as Twitter and Facebook—confound historical memory through legal and technical means.