Interviewees, including Acting Assoc. Director of MITH (Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities) Matt Kirschenbaum, describe the student community and the potential for online interaction across a department.YouTube - AMST @ UMD web video #2
posted by eb at 2:08 PM
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I am imagining a blog community for AMST whereby students publish their written work for each AMST course that they take, and part of the grade for a course might be based on the quality of the comments each student submits for the posted written work for that course.
Thus, the student's grade is not just based on producing the written work deliverable, but on the quality of the paper to elicit thoughtful discourse - which the student would be encouraged to contribute.
The AMST @ UMD Project is one of the most creative student projects that I am aware of. What you are doing is prototyping how students will be communicating with their professors and with other students in the near future.
Instead of producing research or term papers that only professors see and grade, by using blog publishing, students can publish their work, professors and other students can comment on this work and the student can respond to these comments in a dialogic process.
Only through a dialogic process does truth emerge and is real critical thinking encouraged. Given the problems the world is presently experiencing, the regurgitation of "facts" is not helpful. What we need to be doing in the Academy is encouraging creative imagination and critical thinking. AMST has succeeded with EB!
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