Workshop 9
Questioning Technology as an Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Experience
Date: March 22, 2014
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm, Agenda
Place: Celis 008 to 009
Presenters: Hector Huyke, Christopher Papadopoulos, and Marcel Castro Bios
Promotion: Flyer
Presentation: Slides
Reading material: What is Appropriate Technology?
Syllabus: Here
The workshop
As part of the project "The Convergence of Science and Culture: Expanding the Humanities Curriculum at UPRM", which is sponsored the National Endowment for the Humanities, the course INTD 3990 Alternative and Appropriate Technologies: Technology for Whom? Technology for What? was created and delivered during the first semester of the 2013-14 academic year. This workshop will provide an interactive discussion of the content, methods, and assessment results from the class. In particular, the workshop will explore
- A key motivating exercise conducted in the class
- What Appropriate Technology means and how to build a course around this topic
- How interdisciplinary inquiry - ranging from philosophy to technical literacy - was incorporated to critically examine Appropriate Technology
- The interdisciplinary skills developed by students, ranging from writing critiques in essay form to estimating physical quantities
- Transformational experiences expressed by both students and faculty
The workshop will be particularly useful to the following audiences:
- Faculty interested in teaching interdisciplinary general education courses
- Faculty seeking to enrich their disciplinary courses with interdisciplinary methods
- Administrators supportive of interdisciplinary general education courses
- All concerned with how technology impacts society, quality of life, and wellbeing
