Kaleedo is an interactive web-based application that seeks to transform the way we aggregate, interrelate, and visualize diverse perspectives and new insights. This platform provides a digital environment on which individuals may connect with others and engage in the collective examination and discussion of topics across a wide range of disciplines. On the platform, users generate analyses, interpretations, position statements concerning specific topics of academic and student life, i.e., texts, illustrations, maps, artifacts, talks, presentations, performances, and events on campus.

Kaleedo can reveal rich opportunities for research, collaboration, and even social-outreach initiatives that align with the goals of Gettysburg College’s strategic plan, namely, fostering intercultural fluency; democratic civil discourse; and a broader understanding of the human experience to enhance our capacity for education, empathy and action. With access to multitudes of viewpoints, educators, learners, and scholars may access diverse, collective pathways with which to construct new insights and integrate that knowledge with their own.

Inspired by constructivist pedagogical methods, together with what these methods lack, Kaleedo seeks to identify and render visible different experiences, points of view, and perspectives in ways that convey not only what we think but also how and why we think what we think. As such, it seeks to transform how we work in the liberal arts and sciences by allowing students to construct knowledge together, revealing insights about their own thinking as it meets with that of others, be it their classmates, professors, or the larger campus community.

Note: At the moment, Kaleedo is available only to contributors with a Gettysburg.edu email address. For more information, please contact Prof. Aristides Dimitriou at adimitri@gettysburg.edu.