This year’s Enriching Scholarship keynote address is presented by Michael Wesch. This event is free and open to anyone with a UM uniqname. Register at http://www.umich.edu/~teachtec/ES2011.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS

"From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Building New Learning Environments for New Media Environments"
The new media environment can be disruptive to our current teaching methods and philosophies. As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information and knowledge. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able. This "knowledge-ability" is not simply a skill set as implied by the "21st Century Skills movement, but a way of being-in-the-world in which people recognize and actively examine, question, and even recreate the (increasingly digital) structures that shape our world. Knowledge-ability must begin with the recognition that new media are not "just tools" but new ways of relating to one another that entail disruptive changes in economic, social, and political structures. This presentation explores what knowledge-ability needs to be, why it is important, and how education can and must change to foster the forms of knowledge-building, epistemology, and self-understanding we need.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over 15 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic.

ABOUT ENRICHING SCHOLARSHIP

Enriching Scholarship is a free week-long conference featuring sessions on integrating technology into the curriculum to enhance learning. Sponsored by the Teaching and Technology collaborative (TTC) with support from the Office of the Provost, the annual Enriching Scholarship conference offers sessions exploring the effective integration of information and technology with teaching, learning and research.

During the week of May 2-6, more than 100 sessions are offered, including hands-on workshops, demonstrations, discussions, and social gatherings. Learn more and register at http://www.umich.edu/~teachtec/ES2011. Sessions are free and open to anyone with a UM uniqname.

In 2010, Enriching Scholarship was honored by the American Library Association with the Information Today Library of the Future Award.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE (TTC)

The TTC works to help the UM community connect with services and resources that support their teaching, learning and research. The group is comprised of staff from nine units across campus. Since 1997, the TTC has sponsored the Enriching Scholarship program to offer technology training to faculty and instructors, as well as additional workshops throughout the year.