As such, the IUSB Anthropology TEAL Initiative helps to meet important pedagogical goals in the development of global sensibilities through the framework of anthropology as a globally-invested discipline that spans across both the hard sciences and the humanities in order to investigate the human condition in all times and places that people have existed. TEAL strategies were originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for implementation in introductory science courses, however we have found them invaluable for both the physical and social science aspects of anthropology. Since 2010, the Anthropology undergraduate program at Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) has engaged in long-term experiments and implementations of technology-enabled active learning (TEAL) in order to boost the global, scientific, cultural, and technological competencies of both major and non-major students. Technology-enabled active learning has demonstrably improved the experience of undergraduate students who enroll in anthropology classes as majors, minors, or general education students by affording them new abilities, including the recognition of global information resources, the contextualization of their education in spatiotemporal terms, the development of an understanding of sociocultural and politico-economic connective webs, and the skilled capacity to productively create and critically analyze information with a peer cohort through networked information technologies. This chapter presents the historical foundations, the pedagogical theoretical underpinnings, and illustrative examples from the implementation of a curriculum of technology-enabled active learning within the undergraduate anthropology program at a moderately sized, commuter campus in the Midwestern United States. AbstractThe current global human environment is a diverse mixture of cultures and technologies, and university educators face daunting tasks to help their students develop competencies with both human and machine attributes of the modern world.
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