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Description
Technology is transforming how we create, interpret, communicate, and learn in the arts and humanities. As digital and artificial intelligence technologies become woven into cultural production, education, and everyday life, they raise new questions about knowledge, creativity, and responsibility. This graduate course examines these changes through the lenses of curriculum, ethics, and creative practice. It welcomes students from education, educational technology, the arts, museums, community organizations, and other fields where learning with technology takes place.
Throughout the course, we explore how emerging technologies are reshaping interpretation, participation, and artistic production. We experiment with digital tools while considering what these changes mean for authorship, collaboration, and creative expression. We also examine how technology influences teaching, learning, and assessment. Discussion will move between theory and practice so that ideas can be questioned, tested, and applied in meaningful ways.
The course will also address broader cultural questions surrounding technological change. We will investigate digital archives, simulations, media platforms, and networked environments to examine how knowledge is created, shared, remembered, and challenged. Together, we will consider how algorithms shape experience, which perspectives become visible, and which voices remain absent. Questions of surveillance, data governance, digital inequality, and environmental sustainability will be explored alongside issues of representation and cultural authority. Rather than treating technology as something to adopt or reject, the course encourages careful judgment about when and why it should be used. The central goal of this course is to empower educators to provide thoughtful leadership as digital technologies continue to reshape the arts and humanities.
Learning Objectives
In this course, you will have opportunities to:
- Identify and investigate through digital learning environments how conceptions and contexts of the arts and humanities are being maintained and transformed in contemporary societies.
- Explore the connections between pedagogy, curriculum and technology in multiple settings.
- Examine and reflect on particular educational aspects of technology in your own personal and social contexts in light of course readings and discussions.
- Identify teaching and learning strategies for using technology in K-12 schools and adult education, particularly in the arts and humanities.
- Examine how meanings and values of the arts and humanities have been and continue to be re-interpreted.
- Work Collaboratively.
Minor course topic, activity, reading/resource, and assignment details may change from year to year.