DILAC Project: Understanding the Syrian Refugee Crisis with Laura Bier

This DILAC-funded project uses the Syrian refugee crisis as a case study to both educate Tech students about a particular global problem and to empower them as producers (rather than consumers) of pedagogy and scholarship by generating projects about the Syrian refugee crisis using the tools and innovations of digital humanities. Ultimately, these projects will be made available as resources that can be used as lesson plans about the Syrian refugee crisis in Georgia public middle school classrooms. Additionally, lessons learned from this early start up phase of the project can hopefully be leveraged into a larger grant to develop a comprehensive resource on the Syrian refugee crisis for educators.