Session Description: 

Digital curriculum, or curriculum that emphasizes the use of technology to support or enhance learning environments and means of assessment, impacts the identities of those within education communities. In this session, we will explore the history and culture of hypertexts as a means of cultivating digital communities; the significance of digital communities to student learning; and the ways hypertextual class projects may exercise students’ comprehension and appreciation of cybercultural concepts regarding globalization, heterogeneity, and interconnectedness.

Learning Objectives: 

Participants will: 

1.     Identify the history and culture of hypertexts

2.     Evaluate impacts of hypertextual technologies on individual and communal identity

3.     Develop models for collaborative digital activities in the classroom