What part of this methodology is unsettling to me? Am I using this digital tool appropriately? Why am I hesitant to ask this question?
This seems to be a great way to make learning about the past a piece of present history to, we learn about ourselves and our ancestors all at once.
to challenge power structures and dynamics inherent to almost any project; and perhaps most importantly, to challenge their sense of intellectual autonomy
Great clarity into the goals of this work. I feel this would be a clear way to innovate and find new methods of work through disruptions of normalcy.
Data without an accompanyinghumanistic analysis — an exploration of the world of the enslaved fromtheir own perspective — served to further obscure the social and politicalrealities of black diasporic life under slavery.
This is such a succinct way of expressing the need for data and empathy in conjunction with one another to achieve true clarity. So often I feel that emotions are treated as a complication for stem work, but often I think they are the bridge needed to give context and truth to data. Human data without humanity seems useless.
Many of these scholars emerged fromtheir research with differing conclusions about the slave personality, therole African retentions played in making African America, the nature ofresistance, and black family life. Naturally, these histories and how theywere written generated intense and heated debates.
This is a great example of how micro-cultures work, as well as how internal biases can effect our perceptions of history when looking at histories.
Presented with a series of choices, readers may now settle into asite or project at any number of plot points; skim, curate, and comment;indulge in media annotation;
Interesting to see how new ways of engaging with history can in itself create new histories. A digitized document from 1880 might tell us as much about it's time as a digital comment on that document might tell us about the time it was left.
A just atten-tion to the dead, I argue, requires digital humanists to learn from blackfreedom struggles and radical coalition building that offer new modelsfor “social justice, accessibility, and inclusion.
Reminds me a lot of Brecht's idea of verfremdungseffekt, or distancing, in narrative works. There can be no narratization, rather work must be engaged with critically.
Forthe first time, historians can find without knowing where to look. As a result, at an un-precedented rate we are finding connections in unexpected places:
Very exciting to me that with the physical expedition turned digital we are able to directly compare and associate very disparate material. I wonder how we could use this mindset to continue expanding our views of global history across time and space.
For example, Outhistory.org launched in 2008 by a team led by Ned Katz to facilitate collaboratively-written histories of the LGBTQ community.
Amazing that I've never heard of this, glad for the resource. Also not something I had necessarily considered as a way of using digital history.
An important milestone occurred in the 1990s when cultural heritage institutions began creating digital copies of their holdings and sharing them online for free.
It's amazing reading this now as someone who has always had access to these things, I genuinely cannot imagine having to go through so much to access historical documents.
Thesequestions often highlight digital technologies’ problematic roots, whetherby interrogating power and audience, the ways in which digital technol-ogies enable certain types of historical thinking, or their ties to issues ofprivacy, data, and security
Interesting to see the ways in which a digital world not only mirrors our own, but changes with it. Power and audience have always been a big part of history, but things like data privacy are new issues that affect us in both spaces.
Sixteen million textmessages are sent per minute. Each day, 4.7 trillion photosare stored in the cloud.
This makes me so curious how the field of history will change in years to come. What will the hyper-documentation of our time look like in 500 years, and how will it affect society's relationship to the past?
“measurable outcomes may be the least significant results of learning”
Yes!! Especially when so many of the methods used to measure do not fit everyone equally.
the more students are led to focus on how well they’re doing, the less engaged they tend to be with what they’re doing.
Internal vs. external motivations that directly oppose one another. You can't be present if you're focusing on the future.
a grade-oriented environment is associated with increased levels of cheating
Not surprising at all, success is over-valued, especially in individualistic cultures (which classrooms can be microcosmic versions of for sure)
Grades create a preference for the easiest possible task. Impress upon students that what they’re doing will count toward their grade, and their response will likely be to avoid taking any unnecessary intellectual risks.
This is wildly true for me, if I am made to feel like the product is more important to a class than the process of creating the product I will without fail tune out of that class and just do the bare minimum.