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CROSSING
URBAN BORDERS
The New Media Classroom BMCC July 10 - 14, 2000 |
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Renaissance Art Cafe by William H. Johnson |
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For a
third consecutive year, the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) will
host one of six regional summer seminars dedicated to building links between
progressive pedagogy, good scholarship and new educational technologies in
humanities education. The New Media Classroom: Building a National Conversation
on Inquiry, Narrative, & Technology in
U.S. History and the Humanities brings together college and secondary school
educators nationwide to explore the integration of print and electronic media
for the purpose of constructing knowledge and meaning across humanities
disciplines. These regional seminars are sponsored by the American Social
History Project (CUNY) and the American Studies Association's Crossroads Project
with funding through the 2000/2001 academic year from the National Endowment for
the Humanities The
program at BMCC includes a five-day summer institute (Monday, July 10 -- Friday,
July 14), a year long on-line seminar, and follow-up
meetings focusing on the successful implementation of new media-based
instruction. A general theme will frame many of the summer institute’s inquiries and applications: “Crossing Urban Borders”, with an emphasis on New York City’s diverse cultures and neighborhoods. Drawing on digital archives, museums and galleries, seminar participants will study, gather and create materials for student investigation of the complex layers of racial, class, ethnic, gender and cultural interaction between past, present and future generations of New Yorkers. Using both historical and contemporary thematic materials, the aim of the summer institute is to generate a variety of classroom strategies and activities geared to the different disciplines, school settings and needs of seminar participants. Pedagogy and
course content will drive the use of technology in the seminar, and not visa
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