Comments on: Jim Groom & Claudia Emerson Redux http://facultyacademy.org/blog07/jim-groom-claudia-emerson-redux/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:57:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Grokker http://facultyacademy.org/blog07/jim-groom-claudia-emerson-redux/#comment-23 Grokker Thu, 17 May 2007 19:02:22 +0000 http://facultyacademy.org/blog07/jim-groom-claudia-emerson-redux/#comment-23 Allowing the students, librarians, IT folks, and professors a space, outside the literature coverage, to imagine and examine the technological implications of using these tools would mark a remarkable investment in the amount of thought, energy and possibilities several disciplines might bring to the increasingly more relevant and important questions of technology within the university curriculum. Jeff and Sue, great stuff. Jim Groom Allowing the students, librarians, IT folks, and professors a space, outside the literature coverage, to imagine and examine the technological implications of using these tools would mark a remarkable investment in the amount of thought, energy and possibilities several disciplines might bring to the increasingly more relevant and important questions of technology within the university curriculum.

Jeff and Sue, great stuff.
Jim Groom

]]> By: Sue Fernsebner http://facultyacademy.org/blog07/jim-groom-claudia-emerson-redux/#comment-19 Sue Fernsebner Thu, 17 May 2007 15:08:32 +0000 http://facultyacademy.org/blog07/jim-groom-claudia-emerson-redux/#comment-19 A digital lab component makes a lot of sense. The multiplicity of tools and cultures of communication (not to mention legal concerns and the like) that accompany many of them would make this course component quite valuable. A question: does a lab component invite the use of a new vocabulary to express and frame its purpose? I wonder if "digital literacy" or even "digital proficiency" (singular) encourages an underestimation of all that a lab component could provide... A digital lab component makes a lot of sense. The multiplicity of tools and cultures of communication (not to mention legal concerns and the like) that accompany many of them would make this course component quite valuable. A question: does a lab component invite the use of a new vocabulary to express and frame its purpose? I wonder if “digital literacy” or even “digital proficiency” (singular) encourages an underestimation of all that a lab component could provide…

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