Abstracts
Uncommon Thinking for the Common Good
Wednesday 6 May 2009, 1415 - 1500
Presenter: Carie Page
EDUCAUSE, USA
Presenter Biography
Carie Page is the Program Administrator for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, committed to advancing learning through IT innovation. At ELI, Carie works with campus faculty, librarians, and IT staff to promote and integrate teaching, learning, and technology principles on campus. Recent projects include the development of a three-day alternate-reality game to demonstrate collaborative learning opportunities and white papers on both campus security and Green IT. Her research interests include virtual collaboration, game-based learning, Net Gen students, and the development of 21st century literacies on campus.
Her interest in the relationship between campus IT and student success started in the classroom where, as an undergraduate studying history, she discovered that simple online tools and pedagogical methods can lead to greater student engagement. She also turned a keen eye to the characteristics of her classmates as a college editor and Student Government official. Those observations culminated in “The Student’s Perspective,” a chapter in the 2005 EDUCAUSE e-book, “Educating the Net Generation,” edited by Diana and James Oblinger. Recent works on today’s students include, “Father Google and Mother IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner” in the EDUCAUSE Review and a white paper on info literacy, entitled, “Getting Past Google: Perspectives on Information Literacy from the Millennial Mind.” A frequent keynote speaker, she is currently co-facilitating a series of workshops on, “Building a Blueprint: Net Gen Students, Web 2.0, and the Future of Learning.”
She earned a B.A. in History (2005) from North Carolina State University, where she studied as a Park Scholar, and a M.A. in Irish History and Politics (2007) from the University of Ulster in Derry, Northern Ireland, where she spent one year as a Mitchell Scholar.
Abstract
Coupled with innovative ideas and transformative approaches, information technology has a critical role to play in enabling “uncommon thinking for the common good.” IT and collaboration may be the keys to addressing a spectrum of challenges facing higher education, from cultivating students who are prepared to address 21st century challenges to creating collaborative environments that span our geographic and disciplinary borders. This session explores the possibilities enabled by our emerging Web 2.0 culture and looks at some of higher education’s greatest challenges moving forward.
