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Social Marketing Quarterly, 1999
Information, Communication & Society, 2000
New media technologies provide opportunities to expand academic curriculum offerings and enhance ... more New media technologies provide opportunities to expand academic curriculum offerings and enhance student learning. Yet web-based and online learning tools should not be just repurposed text and information, or videotaped faculty lectures. Instead, the web calls for the inclusion of sound, text and visuals for learning tools that provide a media-rich environment. This allows faculty to create multidimensional experiences that cater to different learning styles and provide opportunities for problem solving. Drawing on my production experiences at HBS, as well as my own experience teaching visual anthropology and creating films, videos, photographs and web products, I discuss the teaching opportunities that new technologies and media can provide.
Current Psychology, 2022
There is a growing interest in contemplative practices in higher education. Researchers have expl... more There is a growing interest in contemplative practices in higher education. Researchers have explored the use of meditation to address the increasing requests for counseling and as a resource for improving student mental health. Contemplative practices have also been incorporated into the fundamental learning objectives in some US universities. This study of teaching methods uses first-person narratives from twenty-three 10-week seminars to examine how meditation practice benefited undergraduate students at a large public university in the US. The seminar, “Contemporary American Buddhism: How Meditation Became a Part of the Mainstream,” provided meditation instruction within an historical and cultural context and was taught over a nine-year period. Four hundred undergraduates’ reflective writings were included in this study. During the seminars, students participated in structured in-class meditations, practiced mindfulness exercises, read contemporary texts, viewed recent media and...
"….more and more photographers have discovered that the power of the photograph springs from a de... more "….more and more photographers have discovered that the power of the photograph springs from a deeper source than words-the same deep source as music. At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction."-Nancy Newhall The camera is an artifact of our technological culture and my approach to teaching photography to young children reveals the multiple relationships I have with the medium as an artist and educator. As the philosopher Patrick Maynard has explained, "photography is…a kind of technology … [that can] amplify our powers to do things." In particular, Maynard has pointed to photography's ability to intensify "our powers to imagine things, and our powers to detect things", noting that photography often performs these various functions simultaneously, and that the functions do not just merely combine, but interact in useful ways (1997). My original idea for teaching photography to elementary school children was intended to serve many purposes. Committed to a form of community action that would enrich the M.E. Fitzgerald School, a K-8 school in Cambridge, MA 1 , I had conceived of a curriculum that would address gender inequity and the under-representation of women in the fields of math, science and technology. Planning to focus initially only on a subset of girls in the first grade, I wanted to use their natural interest in drawing and coloring, which I had observed from time spent in the classroom, and create an inquiry-based 1 The M.E. Fitzgerald, my local community school, was located at 70 Rindge Avenue in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. My son, Andrew Dumit, attended the school for three years. In 2003, the school was closed as the result of a district-wide consolidation plan. The plan allowed for Fitzgerald students to stay in the building if they so desired, and be joined by the students, administration and staff from the Peabody School.
Children and Youth Services Review
... download here. Share this article. E-mail to a colleague. Readership Statistics. 10 Readers o... more ... download here. Share this article. E-mail to a colleague. Readership Statistics. 10 Readers on Mendeley. by Discipline. 70% Business Administration. 10% Computer and Information Science. 10% Social Sciences. by Academic Status. 20 ...
Social Marketing Quarterly, 1999
Information, Communication & Society, 2000
New media technologies provide opportunities to expand academic curriculum offerings and enhance ... more New media technologies provide opportunities to expand academic curriculum offerings and enhance student learning. Yet web-based and online learning tools should not be just repurposed text and information, or videotaped faculty lectures. Instead, the web calls for the inclusion of sound, text and visuals for learning tools that provide a media-rich environment. This allows faculty to create multidimensional experiences that cater to different learning styles and provide opportunities for problem solving. Drawing on my production experiences at HBS, as well as my own experience teaching visual anthropology and creating films, videos, photographs and web products, I discuss the teaching opportunities that new technologies and media can provide.
Current Psychology, 2022
There is a growing interest in contemplative practices in higher education. Researchers have expl... more There is a growing interest in contemplative practices in higher education. Researchers have explored the use of meditation to address the increasing requests for counseling and as a resource for improving student mental health. Contemplative practices have also been incorporated into the fundamental learning objectives in some US universities. This study of teaching methods uses first-person narratives from twenty-three 10-week seminars to examine how meditation practice benefited undergraduate students at a large public university in the US. The seminar, “Contemporary American Buddhism: How Meditation Became a Part of the Mainstream,” provided meditation instruction within an historical and cultural context and was taught over a nine-year period. Four hundred undergraduates’ reflective writings were included in this study. During the seminars, students participated in structured in-class meditations, practiced mindfulness exercises, read contemporary texts, viewed recent media and...
"….more and more photographers have discovered that the power of the photograph springs from a de... more "….more and more photographers have discovered that the power of the photograph springs from a deeper source than words-the same deep source as music. At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction."-Nancy Newhall The camera is an artifact of our technological culture and my approach to teaching photography to young children reveals the multiple relationships I have with the medium as an artist and educator. As the philosopher Patrick Maynard has explained, "photography is…a kind of technology … [that can] amplify our powers to do things." In particular, Maynard has pointed to photography's ability to intensify "our powers to imagine things, and our powers to detect things", noting that photography often performs these various functions simultaneously, and that the functions do not just merely combine, but interact in useful ways (1997). My original idea for teaching photography to elementary school children was intended to serve many purposes. Committed to a form of community action that would enrich the M.E. Fitzgerald School, a K-8 school in Cambridge, MA 1 , I had conceived of a curriculum that would address gender inequity and the under-representation of women in the fields of math, science and technology. Planning to focus initially only on a subset of girls in the first grade, I wanted to use their natural interest in drawing and coloring, which I had observed from time spent in the classroom, and create an inquiry-based 1 The M.E. Fitzgerald, my local community school, was located at 70 Rindge Avenue in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. My son, Andrew Dumit, attended the school for three years. In 2003, the school was closed as the result of a district-wide consolidation plan. The plan allowed for Fitzgerald students to stay in the building if they so desired, and be joined by the students, administration and staff from the Peabody School.
Children and Youth Services Review
... download here. Share this article. E-mail to a colleague. Readership Statistics. 10 Readers o... more ... download here. Share this article. E-mail to a colleague. Readership Statistics. 10 Readers on Mendeley. by Discipline. 70% Business Administration. 10% Computer and Information Science. 10% Social Sciences. by Academic Status. 20 ...