Special Topic: New Media Projects For Haiti
2-0-7 (9 credits)
A project-based class to develop new technologies and educational tools
that will contribute to progressive social changes in Haiti. We will
explore viable contexts for promoting self-expression, communication,
literacy and numeracy, and digital governance, given current challenges
and strengths within the society. Topics will include sensors, language,
music, computational methods for teaching and learning, civic engagement
and social media.
Participants will choose a societal problem and devise a solution, with
the goal of spending the last week of April in Haiti field testing and
documenting their solution.
Guest lecturers will include Joe Paradiso, Michel DeGraff, Henry
Lieberman, Judith Donath, Claudia Urrea, Chris Csikszentmihalyi and
Charles Kane.
Barry Vercoe, Dale Joachim