This document discusses educating students for emerging digital ecosystems. It describes how St. Edward's University is preparing students through a scaffolded curriculum using digital tools and resources. Students begin by using digital tools, then contribute to digital tools, and eventually produce their own digital tools and resources. Key concepts in digital pedagogy discussed are openness, collaboration, play, practice, student agency, and identity. The curriculum aims to give students experience in networks, digital creation, data, augmented intelligence, and technology resilience.

1. Educating Problem-Solvers for
Our Emerging Digital
Ecosystem
Rebecca Frost Davis, April 12, 2019
Seton Hall University

2. ABOUT ST. EDWARD’S
• Located in Austin, Texas
• Private, Catholic liberal
arts university
• Founded in 1885 by the
Congregation of Holy Cross
• 60+ bachelor’s and master’s
degree programs
• Partner universities on 5 continents

3. Mobile Learning
@frostdavis
Brenda Adrian, Ling-Hui Chen, Rebecca Davis, Loren Gamez, Joana Trimble Gándara, Laura Lucas, Tate
Seroczynski. 2018 Freshman Technology Survey Infographics. Austin, TX: St. Edward's University. 2018.

4. Emerging digital ecosystem
@frostdavis

7. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities:
Concepts, Models, and Experiments
• General Editors
• Rebecca Frost Davis, St. Edward's University
• Matthew K. Gold, City Tech & Graduate
Center, City University of New York
• Katherine D. Harris, San José State
University
• Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria
• https://github.com/curateteaching/
• Forthcoming 2019
• #curateteaching

8. Digital Humanities
Network
Grandjean, Martin. “A Social Network
Analysis of Twitter: Mapping the
Digital Humanities Community.”
Cogent Arts & Humanities, vol. 3, no.
1, Apr. 2016,
doi:10.1080/23311983.2016.1171458.

9. Networks
@frostdavis

12. Participatory Culture

13. Digitally Tuning
Saxophone with
iPhone App

15. Machine Learning in Gmail

16. Augmented Intelligence

17. Emerging

18. Emerging Digital Ecosystem
• Shaped by networks, which are fundamentally social;
• Characterized by horizontal access to creation and
production; and
• Increasingly driven by data, algorithms, and artificial
intelligence that personalize information for users and
inform human judgment
Bass & Eynon, “Open and Integrative”,
(AACU, 2016) p. 13

19. Generation Z:
“Connected Since Birth”

20. THINK. PAIR. SHARE.
How do you or your colleagues give students
practice in the emerging digital ecosystem?
• Networks
• Digital creation
• Data
• Augmented Intelligence
• Technology resilience
2 minutes per person

21. GEMS
General Education Maps and Markers

22. Levy and Murnane, Dancing with Robots

23. “Are You Ready for the Rise of
'Hybrid' Jobs?”
2018 Report by
• The Business-Higher Education Forum
• Workforce Analytics by Burning Glass
The New Foundational Skills of the Digital Economy
• Human Skills
• Digital Building Blocks
• Business Enablers

24. Human
Skills
Communication
Critical thinking
Collaboration
Analytical skills
Creativity
Digital Building
Blocks
Managing data
Software
development
Computer
programming
Analyizing data
Digital security &
privacy
Business
Enablers
Business process
Project
management
Digital design
Communicating
data

25. GEMs Design Principles
Proficiency
Agency and Self-Direction
Integrative Learning and Problem-Based Inquiry
Equity
Transparency and Assessment

26. Integrative Learning and Problem-Based
Inquiry
• Integration of curricular, cocurricular, and community-based
learning, as well as prior learning experiences
• In local, global, and virtual communities and networks
• Demonstrate proficiencies through inquiry into unscripted
questions and problems

27. What Is Signature Work?
Signature work asks students to
1. integrate and
2. apply their learning
3. to complex problems and projects
4. that are important to the student
5. and important to society

30. https://github.com/shawngraham/hist3812a
Slide from http://slides.com/shawngraham/minecraftedhistory#/

31. Principle 1: Proficiency
Colleges and universities should provide clear statements of
desired learning outcomes for all students, as well as design
curricula and experiences that lead to the development of
proficiencies that are demonstrated at progressively
higher levels.

32. Scaffolding Signature Work in
the Emerging Digital
Ecosystem

33. Critical Reading through Social Annotation

34. Community-Engaged Annotation

35. Citizen Science
iNaturalist app: http://www.inaturalist.org/

36. Wild Basin Biodiversity

37. Playing with Text Analysis
http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflections-on-a-text-analysis-
assignment/

41. Storymapping
http://storymapping.blogs.muhlenberg.edu/

42. What works for you?
A. Social annotation
B. Mobile data gathering (citizen science)
C. Text Analysis
D. Reflecting on personal data (FitBits)
E. Engaging virtual communities
F. Wikistorming
G. Storymapping
H. Digital scholarship

43. Key Concepts in Digital Pedagogy
Openness
Collaboration
Play
Practice
Student
Agency
Identity

44. Course
Ongoing
faculty
project
Virtual
Spaces
Intercampus
Collaboration
Community
Engagement

45. Scaffolded Curriculum
Using
Digital Tools
&
Resources
Contributing
to Digital
Tools &
Resources
Producing
Digital Tools
&
Resources

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