Feminist Pedagogy in a Digital Age: A Workshop on Teaching with Technology

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April 30, 2015 12:00pm
Location
MIT Campus
Type
Other
Audience
Faculty
MIT Community
Students

The near-ubiquitous use of use of social media (and particularly networked and mobile communications technology in one form or another) by students and faculty invites questions about how these tools might be used in the classroom to facilitate dialogue and to foster collaborations between students and even across institutions. FemTechNet, a group of feminist academic scholars and teachers located within and beyond academe, has proposed a DOCC (Distributed Online Collaborative Course) model of pedagogy that enables instructors engaged in feminist pedagogy to connect with each other and use technology to bring students and faculty from many different locations into shared dialogue. 

This workshop will introduce participants to FemTechNet and demonstrate selected teaching techniques now available to instructors seeking to use technology in their courses, including:

  • Electronic feedback and response                       

  • Creative use of video as a form of student writing and response

  • Classroom use of Google docs, Google+, and Twitter to created curated and collaborative  learning environments

  • Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, geo-locative software, and shared open source maps (will demonstrate the FemTechNet Situated Knowledges map project)

  • Feminist video dialogues & inter-institutional Open Office Hours

Workshop leaders Kim Surkan, Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at MIT and Jennifer Musto, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College will lead workshop participants in an interactive dialogue about these teaching techniques and the question of how teaching with technology might be done through a feminist lens.

**This workshop is interactive.  We encourage you to bring a laptop, though there will be ways to engage if you cannot.**


Sponsored by the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies with support from the MIT Office of Digital Learning.

For more information and to RSVP contact:

Andi Sutton, Program Manager
Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies at MIT
Email: arsutton@mit.edu
Phone: 617-324-2085