In the Co-Imagining Futures research project, our process evolves with each iteration, but generally we proceed as follows:
In the 2018-19 year, the STS Futures Lab operated in a temporary, shared space. At the end of the academic year, we put together a space proposal articulating our need and justification for a dedicated space. This PDF is the space proposal we submitted. We were subsequently granted a dedicated...Read more
As described in our NSF proposal , frameworks that inform our thinking about STS as critical pedagogy include critical participation and critical pedagogy. How can we create learning environments that support students’...Read more
This is a poster I presented on campus at our annual Teaching and Learning With Technology conference in which I present an experiment in using collaborative multimodal assignments to facilitate engaged STS learning in a STEM context. Students in the class were majoring in Integrated Science and...Read more
In this presentation that Conley and York gave at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech (2019), preliminary analysis of pre- and post-tests for two different implementations of and ethical reasoning module were analyzed.Read more
This class activity can be adapted with different cut-from-the-news topics, and is designed to introduced students to some basics of scenario analysis, design fiction, and ethical reasoning.Read more