Amy Sue Bix is Professor of History at Iowa State University and director of ISU’s Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science. Her 2013 book ‘Girls Coming to Tech!’: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press) won the 2015 Margaret Rossiter Prize from the History of Science Society.

She discusses her research and teaching surrounding the phenomenon of "tech sabbaths," the religious, social, and popular meanings of the twenty-first-century movement encouraging people to adopt  regular breaks from smartphone and Internet use.

Amy Sue Bix is Professor of History at Iowa State University and director of ISU’s Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science. Her 2013 book ‘Girls Coming to Tech!’: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press) won the 2015 Margaret Rossiter Prize from the History of Science Society. She discusses her research and teaching surrounding the phenomenon of "tech sabbaths," the religious, social, and popular meanings of the twenty-first-century movement encouraging people to adopt regular breaks from smartphone and Internet use.

Episode 8: Technological Sabbaths

How can professors and teachers create relevant and effective courses on the themes of religion technology and human presence? This set of interviews with a dozen scholars from across the academic disciplines and theologians provides a window into cutting-edge pedagogies surrounding the the themes of religion technology and human presence. The courses and pedagogical strategies that we discuss in this series emerge from a variety of settings—from liberal arts colleges to research universities. This limited series is designed to help educators scholars and journalists think about how to teach and communicate about these complex and entangled elements of contemporary society in ways that are compelling and meaningful. The interviews are a result of Public Theologies of Technology and Presence a research initiative based at the Institute for Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.

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