Online Mini-Summit : October 15, 2021 — 2:00-4:00PM
Educational Possibilities of Computational Archival Science:
How can digitized archival collections and computational tools support P-20 educational goals?

This online mini-summit will highlight recent progress with funded work in computational archival science from an educator network and a cluster of projects using digitized collections that highlight historical social issues, including systemic racism and consequential cultural structures.

Organizers:
● Phil Piety: Dir. MD Education Digital Infrastructures (MEDI) Lab, U. Maryland
● Mark Conrad: Digital Archivist, Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC)
● Michael Kurtz: Archival Expert, Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC)
● Richard Marciano: Dir. Advanced Info. Collaboratory (AIC), U. Maryland

Practitioner Network Archival Projects:
● Spelman College Archives
● Densho Digital Archives — Geoff Froh, Deputy Director, Densho.org
● Maryland State Archives Legacy of Slavery Project
● Puerto Rican Spring Project, and
● FDR Presidential Library Morgenthau Holocaust Collections Project   

2:00-2:10 INTRODUCTIONS: All – VIDEO (12 min)
PART I: Host: Mark Conrad: Update on our IMLS-funded project: “Computational Thinking in Library and Archival Education and Research (CT-LASER +)”.  This project builds on an earlier IMLS-funded symposium, “Developing a Computational framework for Library and Archival Education,” where library & archival educators and technologists participated in a workshop that developed the building blocks of an integrated Master’s-level educational curricula for the next generation of librarians and archivists.
2:10-2:20 OVERVIEW: Piloting an Online National Collaborative Network for Integrating Computational Thinking into Library and Archival Education and Practice
Richard Marciano, U. Maryland – SLIDES – VIDEO (21 min)
2:20-2:45 LIGHTNING TALK PRESENTATIONS:

  • Karen Gracy, Kent State U. – SLIDES – VIDEO (10 min)
    Introducing Computational Thinking to Digital Humanities Students: Using Exit Data from Densho’s WWII Japanese American Camps Collections to Identify and Illustrate Patterns of Displacement and Relocation -> Camp Exit Data
  • Sarah Buchanan, U. of Missouri – SLIDES – VIDEO (10 min)
    Solving Incarceration Camp Cases with Computational Storytelling -> Camp Index Card Data
  • Richard Marciano, U. Maryland – SLIDES – VIDEO (6 min)
    Computational Thinking to Unlock the Japanese American WWII Camp Experience -> Camp Index Card Data
  • Joshua Kitchens, Clayton State U. – SLIDES – VIDEO (8 min)
    Rethinking Approaches to Teaching Digital Records -> Camp Entry Data & other data sets
2:45-2:55 LOOKING AHEAD: Michael Kurtz, AIC – SLIDES – VIDEO (8 min)
Part II: Host: Philip Piety: Discussions on broadening the approach through alliances with Learning Sciences networks and Educational Experts. – VIDEO (29 min)
3:00-4:00 EDUCATION EXPERT DISCUSSION:
● Randy Bass, Vice President for Strategic Education Initiatives & Professor Georgetown U.
● Rogers Hall,Wachtmeister Family Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt U.
● Victor Lee, Assoc. Prof. in the Graduate School of Education and Lead of the Data Interactions & STEM Teaching and Learning (DISTAL) Lab, Stanford U.
● Adelaida Alban Medlock, Teaching Professor & Assoc. Dept. Head of Undergraduate Affairs, Computer Science, Drexel U.
● Melanie Walsh, Assistant Teaching Professor, Info. School, U. Washington
DISCUSSANTS & IMPLICATIONS FOR A RESEARCH AGENDA:
● Rick Duschl, Executive Director of the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education & Texas Instrument Distinguished Chair, Southern Methodist U.
● Andrea Chiba, Prof. Cog. Sci. Dep, U. California San Diego & Science Dir. NSF Science of Learning Center & Co-Founder of GSoLEN (Global Science of Learning Education Network)
With:
● Lencia Beltran, Special Collections Archivist, UNC Wilmington Library and LEADING & AIC Fellow
● Devan Donaldson, Asst. Prof. of Info. Sci. & MLS Program Dir., School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana U. Bloomington
● Nickoal Eichman-Kalwara, Digital Scholarship Librarian, U. Colorado Boulder
● Geoff Froh, Deputy Director, Densho.org
● Andy Hostetler, Associate Professor of the Practice of Social Studies Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt U.
● Rajesh K. Gnanasekaran,
Info. Tech. Senior Engineer & Doctoral Student at U. of Maryland
● Jenneh Kamara, Learning & Mobility Lab (SLaMLab), Vanderbilt U.
● Masako Nakazato, NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation,  Archive Researcher
● Emily Ping O’Brien, Digital Repository and Metadata Librarian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and LEADING & AIC Fellow
● Bill Underwood, Research Scientist at U. Maryland iSchool and AIC Co-Founder
● Jeffrey Urbin, Education Specialist, FDR Library & Museum