Undergraduate Research & Technology Conference

Posted by on March 14, 2003

Undergraduate Research & Technology: Experiencing the Transformation
http://www.temple.edu/cla/Forum2003

Spend a day as a guest of Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts as we explore the role of technology in undergraduate research. This, our third annual forum, again takes a look at theoretical and practical issues. “Experiencing the Transformation” investigates how undergraduate students and faculty use non-traditional, digital technologies in experiential/service learning as well as within more traditional research activities. The keynote speakers will be joined by Temple University faculty who are currently using a variety of course implementations including digital archives to research a particular period of history, database driven PDAs to track and analyze animal behaviors, and developing digital portfolios to showcase intellectual achievement.

Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Temple University, KIVA Auditorium – Ritter Hall Annex, 13th Street & Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Registration is FREE (including lunch) – http://www.temple.edu/cla/Forum2003

Presenters:
Kathryn J. Wilson, “Undergraduate Research: Participate, Engage, Learn and Retain,” Engagement in participatory, active and collaborative learning is a key factor in retaining and graduating students on a largely commuter and urban campus. Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis has found its formal undergraduate research program to be a successful means to build faculty-student relationships and an enhanced academic community in a broad array of disciplines, including the sciences, engineering, the fine arts, business and the humanities.

Gail E. Hawisher, “Computing Across Time: Acquiring the Literacies of Technology,” describes how non-traditional undergraduates developed varying sets of technological-literacy abilities and analyzes the ways in which cultural moments may have created opportunities (or not) for the the students under study. By situating the case studies within the larger cultural and ideological framework of American society, an attempt can be made to account for unexpected discrepancies in literacy practices and values.

Cynthia L. Selfe, “The Perils and Promises of Literacy in the 21st Century,” explores how undergraduate students and collegiate faculty are affected by new forms of digital literacies, how they deal with some of the tensions and expectations associated with these literacies, and how they cope with the changes that digital literacies generate within our culture and educational institutions.

Contact:
Martin Friedman, Assistant Dean, College of Liberal Arts at: [email protected]