ITP Core 1 requires a final paper. The form of this culminating work is up to you, but the paper should fulfill a few goals:

1. This paper should take one of the topics, authors, or lenses we have studied this semester and demonstrate your understanding of how it applies to digital technology and pedagogy in your own discipline. Even though most of you do not yet know the project you will pursue for your ITP independent study, think of this work as laying the foundation for it. Maybe you want to think about how the data supply chain interacts with the literary canon, or how Freire applies to science education. Maybe you are interested in game-based learning in sociology, or pedagogical breakthroughs like Shaughnessy’s in theater, or understanding how BIPOC and women have created digital frameworks in psychology. These are just examples! You should make sure that what you take up in this paper is important to you and the work you want to do in ITP and your classrooms and teaching in the future.

2. The paper should be 5000-7500 words (~15-20 pages ). You’re welcome to use whatever citation style is appropriate to your field.
   
   
3. The paper should be presented in a medium that makes sense for the ideas you are laying out.
   
   
4. The paper is due on December 20 by the start of class to both Jill and Maura. We’ll share a Dropbox link for submission as it gets closer.

*As always, Jill and Maura are here to consult and support you! We encourage you to reach out if you would like to talk about your topic or paper-in-progress, and especially to make sure the scope and form are feasible for a paper submitted by December 20.