Conference at Temple University

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:
martin.friedman@temple.edu