There's Not an App for That: Wellness, Writing and Walking in the Digital Age
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
23-9-2016 1:00 PM
Description
To walk on the earth outside of the classroom and to write with a pen on a piece of paper: what can these simple activities teach us about technology and the humanities in the digital age? At first blush, rhetorical education and athletic education may seem unrelated in our contemporary university lives and curricula, but in the classical world, training the body and the mind in tandem was considered key to educating a whole human. During our five-year collaboration as learning community partners in Wellness and English, we have worked to honor and revive some classical pedagogies; we have also worked to integrate a twenty-first century curriculum that begins by acknowledging the importance of living in the body and in the mind, and sometimes we have learned this means taking a break from our online lives to remember our “bodily lives.” Our presentation will show how we have challenged ourselves and our students to use their bodies to write and their minds to exercise. We will also share what we have learned about how the 21st century inclination to digitize our lives means we tend to forget we are bodies in the natural world, an inclination that can have serious consequences for both wellness and writing.
Recommended Citation
Huddleston, Holly and Smith Whitehouse, Bonnie, "There's Not an App for That: Wellness, Writing and Walking in the Digital Age" (2016). Humanities Symposium. 6.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2016/2016/6
There's Not an App for That: Wellness, Writing and Walking in the Digital Age
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
To walk on the earth outside of the classroom and to write with a pen on a piece of paper: what can these simple activities teach us about technology and the humanities in the digital age? At first blush, rhetorical education and athletic education may seem unrelated in our contemporary university lives and curricula, but in the classical world, training the body and the mind in tandem was considered key to educating a whole human. During our five-year collaboration as learning community partners in Wellness and English, we have worked to honor and revive some classical pedagogies; we have also worked to integrate a twenty-first century curriculum that begins by acknowledging the importance of living in the body and in the mind, and sometimes we have learned this means taking a break from our online lives to remember our “bodily lives.” Our presentation will show how we have challenged ourselves and our students to use their bodies to write and their minds to exercise. We will also share what we have learned about how the 21st century inclination to digitize our lives means we tend to forget we are bodies in the natural world, an inclination that can have serious consequences for both wellness and writing.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts and Sciences