
May 2010
As
we "advance towards liberal arts 3.0" within this changing
learning environment, how are we to understand how liberal education functions,
what it means, and what it will become? In this issue, read about four projects recognized by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) for their creative exploration of how we learn, teach and do research in this new educational landscape.
Taking Culture Seriously: Educating and Inspiring the Technological Imagination
Posted December 12th, 2005 by Anne Balsamo, University of Southern California
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"Ignorance costs. Cultural ignorance -- of language, of
history, and of geo-political contexts -- costs real money." So Anne
Balsamo begins her wide-ranging inquiry into the "technological
imagination"--"a character of mind and creative
practice of those who use, analyze, design and develop technologies." Excerpted from Chapter 1 of her forthcoming Duke UP book, The Technological Imagination Revisited; Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination, Balsamo's essay pleads for interdisciplinary collaboration informed by "new skills, new analytical frameworks, new methods,
and new practices" built on a liberal-arts framework of "personal commitment to life-long learning."



