Digital Academics is a community of faculty who have a strong interest in the use of technology. Members of our group are excited about the use of technology in service of teaching. We are not all experts in technology, but we are all passionate about teaching. Our common ground is that we all believe that digital technology has tremendous potential to enhance and transform our classrooms. Some key issues we seek to explore are:

• Technology in Service of Pedagogy - We seek to explore ways that technology can enhance student understanding that enhance, complement, or replace traditional teaching methods. We do not advocate the use of technology just because it's trendy, cool, or what everyone else is doing...rather we look to use it because it provides unique educational opportunities.
  
• Expanding Pedagogical Approaches Through Technology - We are interested in the ways that contemporary and emerging technologies offer new possibilities for the way that we teach. With emphasis on collaboration and exploration, we seek ways that technology can help us teach better. We actively raise questions about teaching practice, old methods and new, in an effort to understand how technology can expand and possibly transform the ways we teach.
• Technology is Pedagogy-Nothing evidences the new century in education so much as the way digital technology has become so deeply integrated into our learning lives. The ways in which we use online resources shapes our pedagogy so powerfully that we must become more critically adept as educators when we chose to employ them. Instead of perceiving technology as an “add-on,” we will develop strategies to critically and creatively determine the effects of present and emerging technology as an integral to our pedagogy.
  
• Understanding Our Digital Lives - Even though many of our students have extensive experience with computers and other digital technologies, they may not have the critical and social awareness of the impact these technologies can have on our lives. Digital Academics strives to develop strategies for helping students cope with their digital lives, all while learning their chosen area of academic study. We don't suggest every course should change focus to technology, but rather that our courses help students to come to terms with the technologies that permeate their lives.

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