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Publishing
Publishing, with Cheryl E. Ball
Why do we teach students how to write? Is it for their benefit or for ours? That’s a serious question—composition classes, and the five-paragraph essay, were initially invented as a service to teachers, not because students needed specific skills for life after college. How can we teach meaningful writing classes that are designed to address studentneeds beyond the classroom? To get help looking…
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Platforms With each new technological development promising to “revolutionize education”, we need to start asking how…and at what cost.
HybridPod, Ep. 13 — Asking the Right Questions
HybridPod, Ep. 13 — Asking the Right Questions
If you’ve listened to this podcast before, or if you follow its associated journal, you know that connecting with students ranks among our most important values, right up there with my personal soapbox of really listening to them. This episode (full transcriptavailable) follows that same trend, but through some unusual avenues. (more…)
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Tech, Agency, Voice (On Not Teaching)
Tech, Agency, Voice (On Not Teaching)
This keynote opened IPL 2018: New Learning Horizons: Digital and Hybrid Pedagogy / Nye lærinshorisonter — digital og hybrid pedagogikk on 31 May 2018 at NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
This talk grew out of a question: “How can the use of technology contribute to support student agency and voice?” Along the way to addressing that question, I hope to pose a few more —…
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Education in the (Dis)Information Age
We are all on the front lines in the war against disinformation. I recently visited a seminar course for history majors at University of Mary Washington. In that course, students are digging into the differences between primary and secondary sources (a letter written by someone vs. a book written about them), learning the different means of evaluating each, and exploring ways to filter through…
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Write Out Loud: Risk & Reward in Digital Publishing
Write Out Loud: Risk & Reward in Digital Publishing
Language is a source of power that makes things happen in the world, and that is an important and challenging lesson to teach in college writing courses. Once students recognize the profound implications of our work with language, many of the skills instructors value — argumentation, organization, revision, editing, proofreading — become much easier to teach. In addition, given that many of us…
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Critical Digital Praxis in Wikipedia: The Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon
Critical Digital Praxis in Wikipedia: The Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon
Wikipedia’s gender gap, which results in problems of representation attributed to the lack of women and non-male editors participating in the encylopedia’s production, is by now well-known and well-documented. A groundbreaking survey conducted in 2011, conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation, found that less than 10% of Wikipedia editors identify as women, and less than 1% as transgender. And while…
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Making the Invisible Visible
Making the Invisible Visible
Simplifying people to stereotypes rarely has a noble purpose. In narrowing and propagating unnuanced definitions for human experiences or identities, the already marginalized can be dehumanized, the othered can be villified, and diversity can be politicized for the purpose of promoting a homogenous fantasy. As instructors, we have the responsibility to challenge this simplification and the blind…
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The Ultimate Life Experience: Preparing Students for the World Beyond the Classroom
The Ultimate Life Experience: Preparing Students for the World Beyond the Classroom
There needs to be a general reshaping of how college is viewed and how colleges act. There is an epidemic going on right now. Students invest a massive amount of funds and massive amounts of time into college, and when they finally graduate, many can’t find a job. According to an article written for Economic Policy Institute, an economic think tank based in Washington D.C., the unemployment rate…
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Paradigms in Academe: On the Digital, Motherhood, and Location-Nonspecific Work
My day began at 2am. One of our kids stumbled into our room because he couldn’t sleep. We’ve learned the hard way that inviting him into our bed when this happens is a mistake; he’s a tall and gangly 11-year-old, and we don’t have enough room for three where we sleep. So I walked him back to his room, climbed into bed with him until he fell asleep, and returned to my own bedroom an…
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Risk and Event-Based Pedagogies
Risk and Event-Based Pedagogies
Writing is neither a process nor a product; it is an event that transforms those who engage in it. Teachers must acknowledge not just the rewards but also the risks inherent in the writing we ask of our students. Once we understand these risks, we should consider how we can most ethically persuade our students to engage them. (more…)
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Learning at the Intersections
Learning at the Intersections
I started writing this article on the day the Trump administration announced they were bombing Syria. A dark coincidence. The announcement came via my New York Times alerts just as I finished responding to Bonnie Stewart in regards to an article I sent her about the prejudice Canadians harbor against Muslim refugees — an article she immediately added to her keynote that evening. Bonnie and I were…
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The Safety Paradox
Two news stories at the beginning of the 2016 fall semester reignited an ongoing debate about the importance of safety in higher education. The first was a letter sent to incoming students at the University of Chicago by John Ellison, Dean of Students in the College, upon their arrival to the school in late August. After congratulating students for earning a place in this “community of scholars,”…
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We must give students the authority and empowerment to take control of their own learning — their own educations. Open pedagogy allows for greater student empowerment. Open resources help us get there. But underlying all of this is a very real need for access — to courses, to content, to resources, to other people, and to a supportive environment. Ensuring access is an essential first step to providing quality education.
HybridPod, Ep. 12 — Access
In this episode (full transcript available), I spoke with Robin DeRosa about a broad issue that affects the way we do things in our classrooms; the way programs design their courses; the way institutions support their faculty …
In this world we now occupy, everything is political. Everything, we so often think, except our schools. We somehow believe learning in schools can be isolated from the surrounding society, even when that society creates, funds, and staffs our schools. We can no longer afford to pretend our classrooms are somehow separated from the current political condition and discourse. With this call, Hybrid Pedagogy seeks to build a collection of hands-on, classroom-ready articles that illustrate what critical digital pedagogy looks like when it’s turned against fascist, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, homophobic political powers. What can our readers do to politicize critical digital pedagogy in their learning spaces, be they libraries, classrooms, or online networks? How can we leverage politics to earn students’ trust? How can we create spaces of political resistance in our classes?
CFP: Politicizing Critical Digital Pedagogy
Libraries advertize their relationship with “alternative facts”. Religious schools voice strong opposition to presidential actions. Silenced government employees create rogue Twitter accounts to voice concerns. Super Bowl ads champion immigration and opportunity in defiance of …
As making appears to become easier with tools, apps, websites, and programs, we are losing an opportunity to give students a hands-on experience and deeper insight into the process that goes into making and creating the materials that they use and consume in their educations. We have students “make” PowerPoint presentations, websites, videos, GIFs, and other digital baubles, but are we really teaching them to make, or are we just teaching them to drag and drop or to effectively follow a set of rigid instructions in order to achieve a static goal? Are we providing too inflexible a template to have their “building” be anything more than the illusion of choice, the illusion of making?
Are Apps Becoming the New Worksheet?
My daughter loves school. She used to line up her stuffed animals in rows and “teach” them for hours on end. When she got a special new doll for her 7th birthday named Isabelle, my …
“Public education is supposed to be for the benefit of the citizens and paid for by the citizens. By injecting the profit motive and creating a market, the public then loses ownership of the system. Though the true purpose of public education is clear — to provide benefits to individuals and communities — education is now becoming more aligned with the purposes of firms; all of which may lead to richer companies but poorer (in an educational sense) communities.”
Community-Focused Versus Market-Driven Education
Public education is now transitioning from a system of educating citizens to a market for profit.  “Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education,” says one news …