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Tiêu đề
Task-driven programming pedagogy in the digital humanities
Tác giả
Birnbaum D.J.; Langmead A.
Năm xuất bản
2017
Source title
New Directions for Computing Education: Embedding Computing Across Disciplines
Số trích dẫn
4
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-54226-3_5
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
In this chapter, we advocate for a task-driven approach to teaching computer programming to students of the digital humanities (DH). Our perspective is grounded first in Birnbaum's (2014) plenary address to the University of Pittsburgh Faculty Senate (Birnbaum 2014), in which he argued that coding, like writing, should be taught across the liberal arts curriculum in domain-appropriate ways. This position argued that (1) coding is not an esoteric specialization to be taught solely by computer scientists, and that (2) coding might be taught most effectively in the context of different disciplines. Here, we present a method for embedding Digital Humanities education, and more specifically programming pedagogy, within the long-standing traditions of the Humanities and argue that this approach works most effectively when new learners have access to context-specific mentorship. Our second point of reference lies with oral-proficiency-oriented (OP) foreign language pedagogy. Within an OP model, the ability to communicate in a foreign language is a skill, and the primary goal for learners who seek to acquire that skill is not an academic understanding of the grammar of a language, but, instead, the ability to function successfully within realistic contextualized human interactions. Seen from this perspective, computer-programming curricula organized around the features of the programming language might be compared to older grammar-and-translation foreign-language pedagogies. What we advocate instead is that the ability to use a programming language (programming proficiency) is best acquired in the context of performing contextualized, discipline-conscious tasks that are meaningful to humanists, an approach that has parallels to OP language learning. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017. All rights reserved.
Từ khóa
Computational humanities; Computing education; Digital humanities; Humanities pedagogy; Interdisciplinary; Programming pedagogy
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Nơi xuất bản
Springer International Publishing
Hình thức xuất bản
Book chapter
Open Access
All Open Access; Green Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus