Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry

This fall, we invite you to join in a reading and conversation series focused on student engagement. Each month, we’ll share just one article to prompt and provoke conversation. Through reading and discussion, we hope to make space for you to share your thoughts about student engagement, as well as explore the many facets of student engagement and its implications for teaching and learning. (You’re welcome to join us to talk about student engagement, even if you haven’t read the article!)

In this interactive session, colleagues will share how they have been approaching the use of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools with their students. We’ll explore topics including syllabus language, how to talk with your students about generative AI, and assignment design. Come hear from colleagues about how their use of generative AI has unfolded in their classrooms, ask questions, and share your own experiences. Workshop by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) and Digital Learning and Inquiry (DLINQ).

This workshop and discussion will offer faculty a chance to hear from students who are trained in writing pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning about their thoughts on ChatGPT and other AI technologies. Faculty will have an opportunity to talk about the project of learning (and teaching) at Middlebury College and the impacts of AI. This is a chance to bring students and faculty together for an exciting dialogue on the ramifications of AI and to brainstorm ways to respond to it in the classroom. Lunch will be provided.

ChatGPT has come into academia with great force. What’s been written about this tool covers a wide range, from doom and gloom to prognostications of great, creative change. ChatGPT is a disruptor in a good sense. Educators are being asked to reflect on practice, and come to an understanding about how to creatively work with the tool, the first of many to come in this second wave of technological innovation, the AI Revolution.

Student groups from Midd and MIIS will share concrete, intentional practices they’ve used to create a welcoming community. Come for conversation and connection, and to learn some new practices that you can use with your communities. For more info: https://dlinq.middcreate.net/event/welcoming-as-an-inclusive-practice/

A conversation/workshop with Seth Denbo ‘90, American Historical Association Director of Scholarly Communication & Digital Initiatives, that uses the 2015 AHA “Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians” as a case study for thinking about the digital liberal arts in relation to issues of professional evaluation, hiring, and promotion.

Open to faculty and administrators. Lunch served. Please RSVP at the URL below, but feel free to attend even if you forget to sign up.

Quoctrung Bui is a graphics editor at the New York Times‘s The Upshot. He has written stories on insurance, inequality, zoning, taxes, and other topics. He started his career in journalism at NPR’s Planet Money after a stint at the Federal Reserve Board.

How can digital history projects exist in the college classroom—and share knowledge to the broader public from that space? The Berkeley Revolution: A digital archive of one city’s transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s is a website and collective project that emerged from an honors undergraduate seminar in American Studies at UC-Berkeley, “The Bay Area in the Seventies,” taught by Scott Saul in the spring of 2017.

Scott Saul, professor of English at University of California-Berkeley, will discuss the development of Chapter & Verse, a books-and-arts podcast he hosts. The podcast is sponsored by UC-Berkeley’s Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. It probes the cultural imagination—what Joan Didion once called the stories we tell ourselves to live—by delving into novels, nonfiction, poems, music, film, and other touchstones of our culture, with an eye to the spells they cast and the questions they raise.

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.