Faculty members from across the country are gathering in Lexington to discuss the role of technology in teaching at the college level. Transylvania is hosting the Digital Liberal Arts Summer Institute through Wednesday.
The three days at Transy include sessions on digital fluency, design thinking, and human and technology interaction. Emily Goodman is a professor of art history and outgoing digital liberal arts co-director. She said the approach to current technologies in higher education doesn’t need to be all or nothing.
“Thinking about, ok this is here…so what does it mean? How do we live with it?…how do we change it?...how do we push forward?...how do we engage?...how does it inform us?...how do we inform it?” asked Goodman.
The time spent on design thinking will include a look at wicked problems. Goodman noted that’s tackling a complicated problem. The Transylvania professor used the example of addressing climate change, where there is not one answer. Goodman added another session will focus on issues related to artificial intelligence.
“There’s a big difference between I copied and pasted what ChatGPT told me and I used ChatGPT as a tool to get me to my own original thinking. And I think, with all technology, it’s always scary when it’s new…right? Like Plato admonished writing as a new technology because it was going to do all these things to oral traditions,” said Goodman.
Goodman is a co-director of the seminar program.
Here's the interview with Emily Goodman:
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