College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

As technology continues to evolve and employers demand more digitally savvy hires, how can colleges ensure their students are prepared to graduate with the right skills?

Hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education with support from Adobe, The Right Curriculum for Digital Skills brings together a panel of professors and college administrators to explore this question, including the University of Florida’s Sid Dobrin, Chair, Department of English.

In this hour-long virtual forum, we’ll look at how colleges are strengthening digital literacy and competencies in their courses. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of our experts. Bring your ideas and share your own experiences during this special virtual forum.

This forum will seek to answer:

• How do you ensure that this generation’s digital natives will continue to evolve their technology skills for the future?
• How can colleges make sure digital skills are distributed equitably when many students face barriers to accessing technology?
• And how can humanities programs develop such lessons into their traditional approaches?

Panelist:

Positioned within writing studies, Sid Dobrin’s research focuses on three distinct but overlapping subjects: the ecological properties of writing; ecocriticism and ecocomposition, including questions of oceanic criticism; and the relationship between writing and emerging technologies, including questions of contemporary digital and visual/screen culture. Dobrin is also the Director of the Trace Innovation Initiative. This research hub studies emerging writing technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications, comic forms as scholarship, writing ecology, and other cool stuff. Dobrin has been named a Digital Thought Leader by Adobe, and he serves as Chair of the American Sportfishing Association’s Advocacy Committee.