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I’m a high school teacher. I attended THATCamp Prime for the first time last year, and left thinking a lot about how little I know about linked data or Omeka or the ethics of iPad hacking. In fact, I’m teaching a research and writing course and just learned about Zotero about five minutes ago. This is troubling because 1) I teach the kids you’ll see in your classrooms next year, and 2) the conversations that educators have around K-12/learning/tech generally do not involve these ideas.

I’m interested in having a conversation about what K-12 (but primarily high school) teachers should know about how to move a “digital humanist” mindset into their practice, and how to begin to engage our students around these ideas. What does a mini-digitalhumanist look like? What is s/he thinking about in high school? Is there, truly, a way of thinking digitally that seems to be native to the ways that college students now approach research/etc?

Am thinking about what the outcome of this conversation might look like, other than an hour of idea-sharing ..