HASTAC 2015 Live Stream – YouTube. HASTAC is an alliance of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning for the 21st century. Here’s the virtual schedule:
Humanities
Rebel Architecture
Rebel Architecture is a six-part documentary series profiling architects who are using design as a form of activism and resistance to tackle the world’s urban, environmental and social crises.
Immigrant Nation: New tool to share and view immagrant stories
Immigrant Nation: “New tool to share and view immagrant stories”
Can a Video Game Change Your Mind?
Can a Video Game Change Your Mind? “Artists reflect the world they see and feel with results that are often wonderfully synthesized for patrons and galleries. But what happens when artists become catalysts for change—when they’re the ones who take actions that require reflection? “
Big History Project released for K12
Big History Project: ” Yesterday the Bill Gates supported Big History Project opened the free online class for K12 education. It’s an attempt to tell a compressed history of the world since the Big Bang through what historian David Christian calls Thresholds, major transition in the universe (e.g., creation of stars) and on earth (e.g,, appearance of agriculture). It’s unique in it’s approach to history in that it breaks the eurocentric humancentric traditional approaches. Christian endeavors to bring history to science. It is symptomatic of a society trying to find ways to continually condense the huge amount of knowledge that are being generated and communicated on a daily basis (See Big Data ).”
Humanities Scholars Discuss Their ‘Shared Mental Map’ for a New Age of Digital Communication – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Humanities Scholars Discuss Their ‘Shared Mental Map’ for a New Age of Digital Communication – Research – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Humanities Scholars Discuss Their ‘Shared Mental Map’ for a New Age of Digital Communication”