I was learning more about a presentation on activism in the Middle East to be put on by the Berkman Center at Harvard next Monday when I saw another post on the Digital Natives website about the "New Liberal Arts". After talking with my boss over the past few months about the idea of the New Humanities, created by Rutgers and now Stanford, this entry caught my eye. A group called Snarkmarket posed the question, "What are the new liberal arts?"This then prompted the group to open the idea up to the world for feed back and the idea is now turning into a book. Snarkmarket is looking for your opinions on what the new liberal arts should include:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtLVFWXF_UQ&eurl=http://snarkmarket.com/blog/snarkives/books_writing_such/a_snarkmarket_book_project_the_new_liberal_arts/&feature=player_embedded
Our students are digital natives who live in a very different world. We must adapt our curriculum to support the skills and thought processes that they will require in the 21st century.
With that in mind, I ask you to support Snarkmarket and their book in one of two ways:
- Make a pitch for a new liberal art. It can be something you know lots about, or something you wish you knew lots about. It can be general or specific. It can be anything. Leave your first draft as a comment on this post, and don’t worry about thinking it all the way through. Don’t worry about length, either. If we decide to include your pitch in the book, we’ll work all of that out. ( click here to add your new liberal art)
- Help promote the project. Even if pitching a new liberal art isn’t your speed, someone in your network might have a great idea. So blog this post; Twitter it; email it to your two nerdiest friends. Here’s a shortened link, if it’s helpful: http://is.gd/i4lG
Photo Credit: quinn.anya
No comments:
Post a Comment