Digital Citizenship: Lessons Learned as Service-Learning Meets the Digital Divide.
- Resource Type
- Conference Paper
- Authors
- Shulman, Stuart; Beisser, Sally; Larson, Teresa; Shelley, Mack
- Source
- Conference Papers -- American Political Science Association. 2002 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, p1-16. 17p.
- Subject
- *SERVICE learning
*INFORMATION technology
*UNIVERSITIES & colleges
*INTERNET in education
*WEBSITES
- Language
This paper reports preliminary first-year results from an "itr"-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) grant enabling two central Iowa universities-Drake University and Iowa State University--to assess the efficacy of service-learning interventions in the dissemination of Information Technology Literacy (ITL) beyond the campus gates. It introduces service-learning, a pedagogy that promotes mutually beneficial partnerships between academic institutions and communities, and reflects on the particular challenges service-learning poses in practice. After less than a year, a number of lessons learned are emerging that will significantly impact implementation in years two and three of the project. Check author’s web site for an updated version of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]