mhoyeJul 17, 2023

This is fascinating: "What Humanities Scholars Want Students To Know About The Internet"

https://computinged.wordpress.com/2023/07/17/what-humanities-scholars-want-students-to-know-about-the-internet-alternative-paths-for-alternative-endpoints/

What Humanities Scholars Want Students To Know About the Internet: Alternative Paths for Alternative Endpoints

After we got the go-ahead to start developing PCAS (see an update on PCAS here), I had meetings with a wide range of liberal arts and sciences faculty. I’d ask faculty how they used computing in th…

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@mhoye Really great read, and mirrors my own experience in both understanding and educating.

To wit: the humanities kids taking my New Media class did not need a code-heavy class, but it was sufficient to, later on in the term, get them to create a #github account and get used to the idea of repos and code being something being out there actively worked on.

Similarly, the engineering students in the #stas class didn't need help with code, but context was everything. Big picture stuff.

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