Abstract
Media-focused millennial students are different from previous generations in their dependence on digital devices, leaving humanities professors to struggle to sustain their attention. For well over a decade, our interdisciplinary faculty team has faced the problem in a two-week study-abroad course in Rome, confronting cultural space through the lenses of history, art, literature, and philosophy. Our course has been a laboratory seeking answers to questions of how to focus and engage students with the diverse, multi-layered culture of Rome. Can we get them to use their powerful digital technology to construct meaning? Can using technology, navigating architectural spaces and experiencing art directly, operate as complimentary ways of actually doing philosophy or engaging history? Can technology assist us in being participants in the preservation and transmission of culture rather than tourists? This panel focuses on the challenges and opportunities of teaching this generation of students in the complex environment of Rome. 1. Using a digitally interactive, pop up exhibit to present and preserve for posterity significant spaces and the experience of those places. 2. Can reading literature through a smart phone lens engage students in uncovering the multi-layered architectural, historical and literary meaning of Roman space? 3. Teaching philosophy as a means to understand the role of place in history by embodying it in the physical exploration of Rome. 4. & 5. Discussion of on-site teaching aids using the layers of the Basilica of San Clemente to help students organize the chronology and geography of sites from diverse eras. 6. Moderator
Presenters
Ronald WeberAssociate Professor, History/Humanities, University of Texas at El Paso, Texas, United States Sarah Kyle
Associate Professor, University of Central Oklahoma Margaret Musgrove
Associate Professor, University of Central Oklahoma Scott Samuelson
Associate Professor, Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids IA Renee Schlueter
Professor, English, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa, United States
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Technology, Digital, Space, Memory, Rome, Cultural, Heritage, Study, Abroad
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