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Resources
In this section you will find:
- Video resources documenting the Humanities+Tech series
- Digital Mapping Resources
- Information about Mission: Visible
This 4-minute video provides an overview of the Humanities+Tech event series produced by New America in 2019, which was designed to use tools of the humanities (writing, storytelling, history, geography, art, and more) to draw out insights from diverse groups of educators, youth, families, technologists, artists, and workers about the future of learning and work. It includes quotes and other take-aways from speakers at three events throughout the greater Pittsburgh Region throughout 2019. Videography by Steeltown Entertainment as part of New America’s Humanities+Tech project.
This video introduces the first Humanities+Tech event, Learning Power: Examining the Future of Education Amid Automation and Artificial Intelligence, which took place at the Falk Lab School in Pittsburgh on July 24, 2019. It features an hour-long moderated conversation between New America’s Kristina Ishmael and Nicole Mirra, the author of Educating for Empathy, as well as questions from educators and others in the audience. The event was held in conjunction with CREATE Lab at CMU and the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project’s Summer Institute. Videography by Steeltown Entertainment as part of New America’s Humanities+Tech project.
This 4-minute video is a composite of interviews conducted by Steeltown Entertainment students and teaching artists to capture reflections on the event, Learning Power: Examining the Future of Education Amid Automation and Artificial Intelligence, held at the Falk Laboratory School in Pittsburgh on July 24, 2019. Videography by Steeltown Entertainment as part of New America’s Humanities+Tech project.
This video captures the lunch talks given at the second Humanities+Tech event, Neighborhood Stories: Looking into the Past to Map the Future, which took place at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Oakland library on October 5, 2019 as part of the Historic Pittsburgh Fair. The video features ~45 minutes of remarks by Andy Mink, vice president of education at the National Humanities Center, and Sunanna Chand, then-director of Remake Learning. The remarks were given as part of a workshop for educators designed by CREATE Lab at CMU and the Senator John Heinz History Center. Videography by Steeltown Entertainment as part of New America’s Humanities+Tech project.
This video captures a 30-minute afternoon discussion at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on October 5, 2019 among educators and workshop presenters, as well as New America event leaders. The discussion centered on what it will take to bring the tools of digital mapping into K-12 classes that cover history, social studies, climate science, and social justice topics. Videography by Steeltown Entertainment as part of New America’s Humanities+Tech project.
This nearly 2-hour video captures the introduction and discussion of the third event in the Humanities+Tech series, titled Crafting Pathways: Makers and the Future of Work in Appalachia. It took place in Morgantown, W.Va., and features a moderated discussion by Molly Martin, director of New America Indianapolis, with leaders from West Virginia University as well as artists and makers in West Virginia. Videography by Steeltown Entertainment as part of New America’s Humanities+Tech project.
Digital Mapping Tools
Digital mapping tools provided to educators and other attendees of the second event:
● Special collections and databases at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (including 19th century newspapers and The Pittsburgh Courier)
● Tours at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
● Learning Lab at the Senator John Heinz History Center
● EarthTime by the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University
● Humanities Moments from the National Humanities Center
Additional resources noted by participants:
● Historypin (including the Heinz History Center’s Historypin page)
● Map activities for young children, from Erikson Institute’s Early Math Collaborative
Mission: Visible
At the same time that New America’s Teaching, Learning, and Tech team was leading the Humanities+Tech project, the Better Life Lab at New America was launching Mission: Visible, a new resource for elevating the voices of women and people of color who are too often invisible or underrepresented on TV; in the news, movies, and history books; and at public events. The resource provides a directory of organizations that highlight untold stories, distribute materials such as photographs that are true to the diversity of society, and can provide starting points for Humanities+Tech discussions. A section on “arts, humanities, and social sciences,” for example, links to the National Women’s History Project, and the “performing arts and culture” section highlights WOCinTech Chat Stock Photos, which provides photos of women of color in tech, free to use under Creative Commons license.