Digital Service Learning: Civic Engagement Through Technology
Proposal
The session explores the philosophical & practical parts of digital service-learning, wherein classrooms connect with the global community to perform service-learning projects that enhance the community, learning, and digital skills. Participants will be exposed to current practitioners, explore different approaches, and develop plans to implement digital service-learning projects at their institutions.
The workshop will spend some time initially introducing participants to what is digital service learning, what the types of service learning, and providing examples that the presenter has performed as well as others that have been used by others.
After this introduction, participants will be introduced to a design document for a Digital Service Learning project (via Google Docs) and the presenter will walk them through the design document, providing context, recommendations, and ideas for each section. The process will be part discussion and part contemplation as attendees think about how digital service learning would work in a given course at their institution.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Describe what digital service learning is.
Identify the different supports on campus they can reasonably rely on for assistance.
Discuss examples of digital service learning projects.
Design some initial elements of a digital service learning project for a given course.
Articulate the additional work they will need to do to get a digital service learning project operating in a given course.
Participants will also gain access to a trove of support materials and documents to help them in their future work around digital service learning.
Digital Service Learning: Civic Engagement Through Technology
The session explores the philosophical & practical parts of digital service-learning, wherein classrooms connect with the global community to perform service-learning projects that enhance the community, learning, and digital skills. Participants will be exposed to current practitioners, explore different approaches, and develop plans to implement digital service-learning projects at their institutions.
The workshop will spend some time initially introducing participants to what is digital service learning, what the types of service learning, and providing examples that the presenter has performed as well as others that have been used by others.
After this introduction, participants will be introduced to a design document for a Digital Service Learning project (via Google Docs) and the presenter will walk them through the design document, providing context, recommendations, and ideas for each section. The process will be part discussion and part contemplation as attendees think about how digital service learning would work in a given course at their institution.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Describe what digital service learning is.
Identify the different supports on campus they can reasonably rely on for assistance.
Discuss examples of digital service learning projects.
Design some initial elements of a digital service learning project for a given course.
Articulate the additional work they will need to do to get a digital service learning project operating in a given course.
Participants will also gain access to a trove of support materials and documents to help them in their future work around digital service learning.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/eldc/2019/Friday/3
