ENGL 481: Digital Humanities

A literature professor uses digital work such as electronic literature and videogames in his classroom to teach students building and sharing that they often find more enjoyable because they are working with technology they understand. She uses building as a way to integrate digital humanities in a classroom and how its the reproduction of knowledge. In a classroom she states the importance of collaboration between students to show how they are making something for each other and the outside world.

This article focuses on collaborative teaching in a classroom and uses Twitter to have a discussion. Usually teaching is done by one person which henders the collaborative work of the teachers and discourages collaborative between students. This article asks questions to how to collaborate in a classroom.

This post talks about the intricate role that Quantum Physics play as an undertone in nature. How could we function without a GPS these days, furthermore how does nature know instinctively how to coordinate with its inner instincts and does quantum physicas have something to do with this?

Can emotions be replicated by a machine? Yann LeCun, a computer scientist at NYU, discusses the importance of emotions being prevelent in intelligent machines.

This article is about a professor who's notion of digital humanities infuses technology with their writing, publishing, and pedagogy. She revised her old teaching philosophy of a pedagological approach to having an editorial pedagogy that helped her with editing, teaching, and administrating in a digital humanities world. This approach helps teachers and students learn from each other by having them act more as equals. Her teachings help students analyze certain genres and set up feedback in which the genre will be recieved or evaluated and adapt these skills to any reading, writing, or editing.

This post attempts to discuss and explor the possibility of the "thinking machine." Could computers become so smart as to function on a human level: think, feel, act, etc. as if it were really human? A panel discusses these phenominons and the reality behind the questions.

The Creator is a film that personifies computers in the future to ask where it is they came from and trace their lineage back to a man named Alan Turing, who first asked the question, "Can Machines Think?" After the viewing of the film top computers scientist will have open discussions concerning the questions and concerns this film brings up.

This article attempts to survey the history and turn up the evidence of who actually invented the internet. Who were its' pioneers? And what was the driving force behing it all, what is the history here?

Digital physicists try to explain that computation is not just for approximating reality but might actually be reality itself. The use examples such as bits instead of elementary particles or computer algorithims instead of physics. An interesting view on the computer world.