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CROSSING
URBAN BORDERS
The New Media Classroom BMCC June 25 - 29, 2001 |
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Renaissance Art Cafe by William H. Johnson |
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For a fifth 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. The
program at BMCC includes a five-day summer institute (Monday, June 25-Friday,
June 29), 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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