Amanda Rust – THATCamp New England 2012 http://newengland2012.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:10:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Digital humanities, public humanities, and K-12 education http://newengland2012.thatcamp.org/2012/10/digital-humanities-public-humanities-and-k-12-education/ Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:35:20 +0000 http://newengland2012.thatcamp.org/?p=535 Continue reading ]]>

As exciting as new university DH Centers are, as much as they open up new methods of scholarship, I wonder how much their reach extends beyond universities to K-12 education and the general public.  How have digital humanities projects involved our K-12 students?  Our senior citizens? Our local government?  How can university DH centers, museums, and public libraries work together to include those outside university walls?  Should we / could we crowdsource geneaology, create internships for high school students, capture disappearing local history, create a TEI MOOC, more?  What sort of projects like this already exist?

I see some overlap with the Techno Haves and Have Nots session, in that I’m interested in how digital humanities projects are a vehicle by which the intellectual methods of the humanities can be brought to all that are interested (regardless of digital savvy or place in university.)

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