Every semester I offer a day-long crash course that covers the basics of geographic information systems. You’ll learn the fundamental concepts of layering, joining data to map layers, coordinate systems, and geoprocessing, and you’ll work through examples of doing neighborhood-level site selection and creating thematic maps (like the one in the image below). I use […]
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Photo: CUNY IT Conference
Members of the Futures Initiative team with George Otte, Director of Academic Technology, following Cathy Davidson’s keynote address at the 2014 CUNY IT Conference.
March 10: Open Session on Student-Centered Pedagogy (Livestreamed!)
Join us March 10 for Student-Centered Pedagogy: a workshop for innovative classroom practices focusing on collaboration, crowdsourcing, and experiential learning. What does peer learning look like across disciplines? What are the risks and rewards of a student-centered classroom? Join the Futures Initiative seminar, “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” and members of the student-centered pedagogy […]
Intro to GIS Workshops using Open Source Software
Do you have a research question that you’d like to envision geographically? Maybe you’d like to study neighborhoods and businesses to target a market, or to provide a public service. Or perhaps you want to visualize the distribution of education, employment, or resources across the country or around the world. Have you ever wanted to […]
Spring 2015 Events
Events from our partners: CLAGS GC Digital Initiatives GC Office of Career Planning and Professional Development Graduate Center Library JustPublics@365 NYC Digital Humanities Futures Initiative and Mapping the Futures of Higher Education Events: March 10: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education, Open Class Session, “Student-Directed Learning,” Presented by graduate students in “Mapping the Futures of Higher […]
CANCELED: Queering the Map with Jen Jack Gieseking
The Futures Initiative and the Graduate Center Library regret that this event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule very soon and will post details here when they are confirmed. Queering the Map: Theoretical Reflections on Spatial Methods for Action Research In The Practice of Everyday Life, de Certeau writes that “What the map cuts […]
The MOOC Moment, Thurs. Feb. 26, 3:30pm, Grad Center Library
2012 was declared to be “the year of the MOOC” by no less than the New York Times, but stories of failure abounded about Massive Open Online Courses in the years that followed. The public read tales of defections, meltdowns, protests, and palace coups by faculty and scandals involving vandalism, cheating, and harassment by students. […]
Photo Essay of Futures Initiative Syllabus Building Workshop
The Futures Initiative hosted its first workshop of the Mapping the Futures of Higher Education course this past Thursday, January 22nd. A number of the graduate students who will be in the class, which begins on February 3, brought in their own syllabus that they will be teaching in the undergraduate colleges. The students in […]
Cathy N. Davidson, “The Invention of Failure” Tuesday, January 20 at Duke
The Invention of Failure Tuesday, January 20, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Open to the public. Light dinner provided. PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, 1st Floor, C106, 114 S. Buchanan Boulevard, Durham Professor Cathy N. Davidson Visiting Distinguished Professor, Duke University Distinguished […]
Reflections on Futures Initiative Open Session: Rethinking Evaluation and Assessment in Online and Blended Learning Environments
On December 8th, Dr. Anthony Picciano, Professor and Executive Officer of the PhD program in Urban Education, joined us for a Futures Initiative Open Session. This was a very topical kick-off to our Open Sessions as we are gearing up for our inaugural course, Mapping the Futures of Higher Education, being co-taught by Dr. Cathy […]
