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Reboot SDSU: Retooling students & faculty for the digital 21 st century

Reboot SDSU: Retooling students & faculty for the digital 21 st century. We are living the largest shift in human culture, cognition, and communication since the invention of the printing press. At SDSU, we witness the digital shift every day.

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Reboot SDSU: Retooling students & faculty for the digital 21 st century

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  1. Reboot SDSU: Retooling students & faculty for the digital 21st century

  2. We are living the largest shift in human culture, cognition, and communication since the invention of the printing press.

  3. At SDSU, we witness the digital shift every day. . . in our classrooms, in the way our students think and write, in the way faculty define, create and share new knowledge.

  4. “We are in the midst of a generational shift in cognitive styles that poses challenges to education at all levels… We must think creatively and innovativelyabout new educational strategies appropriate to the coming changes.” -N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University

  5. “The biggest problem we face now is • the increasing mismatch between • traditional curricular standards of • content-based instruction and the new forms of thinking • required by our digital, distributed workplace” • --Cathy Davidson, Duke University

  6. It is time to reboot: to invest in our faculty so they can retool to challenge 21st century students & innovate and communicate in the digital age.

  7. Reboot SDSU aims to make SDSU • a national leader in critical digital literacy • by investing in faculty to develop and implement • intellectual and pedagogical tools • our students need to become • critical digital-era thinkers and innovators.

  8. Different modes of literacy foster different modes of cognition. . . Close reading and deep attention in print.Hyper reading and hyperattentionin digital.

  9. Both print and digital literacies have value if used with a capacity for discipline, understanding, and insight. That capacity is critical digital literacy.

  10. Reboot SDSU seeks to make SDSU students the nation’s most broadly digital-literate student body by teaching them to • Identify, understand, and deploy different modes of thinking associated with oral, print, and digital literacy • Cultivate deeper reading capacity in both print and digital modes • Navigate and evaluate print and digital texts • Understand the histories, benefits, and limits of oral, print and digital literacy

  11. Reboot SDSU timeline: • Pilot critical digital literacy curriculum: English 563 / CAL 495: “Reboot: 21st Century Literacies” (Spring 2014) • Pilot one-day SDSU “Reboot Camp” to help faculty “think” the digital shift and teach with critical digital literacy (Spring 2014) • Develop and test broadly distributable two-week digital critical literacy module for undergraduates to assess its impacts on student academic outcomes, with publication of research results (Fall 2014) • Implement critical digital literacy module in classrooms serving thousands of students (Spring 2015)

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