Digital Literacy 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 daughter took it upon herself to catch her new addition up on all that she
Higher Ed “College Readiness” versus “Ready for College” We have lots of definitions of “college readiness”; here are the ACT’s definitions [http://www.act.org/standard/] as well as the Common Core’s in Language Arts [http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/introduction/students-who-are-college-and-career-ready-in-reading-writing-speaking-listening-language/] (as for math, it’s simply “all the math [http://www.corestandards.org/Math/
On Social Media, Silence, and Things That Matter This piece first appeared on Educating Modern Learners [http://modernlearners.com/on-social-media-silence-and-things-that-matter/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to talk about Ferguson [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-ferguson-tragedy-becoming-a-farce/2014/09/12/e52226ca-3a82-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html] . We need to keep talking about Ferguson because if these past 12-24 months have taught us anything (if we
editors’ picks Social Media, Service, and the Perils of Scholarly Affect I am not a scholar, at least not in the traditional sense. Almost 5 years ago, I wrote How Highered Makes Most Things Meaningless [http://collegereadywriting.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-higher-ed-makes-most-things.html] . It also appeared on Inside Higher Ed [https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_of_venus/how_higher_ed_
Academic Labor Towards a Critical Approach to Faculty Development We are two critical pedagogues who are also faculty developers, trying to create space for conversations interrogating dominant approaches to faculty development. Faculty developers support the growth and continuing development and evolution of faculty in their roles as educators. But, what we (Maha and Lee) are addressing in this column
Assessment Assessment and Generosity Kris Shaffer and Asao Inoue discuss generous ways to assess student work, and we’ll hear from Lee Skallerup Bessette to consider institutional assessment, empathy, and student needs.
Digital Writing Digital Writing, Paywalls, and Worth This piece was contributed as part ofHybrid Pedagogy‘sDigital Writing Month [http://www.digiwrimo.com/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m tired. Scratch that: I’m exhausted. I’ve been writing for my life, like my life depended on it, like somehow if I could find the right words, my life would finally
Academic Labor Where Do I Belong?: Contingency and the Psychic Wage Hybrid Pedagogyrecently announced a call for articles that addressthe problem of contingency in higher education [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/CFP_Contingency_in_Higher_Education.html] . The goal is to examine our role as pedagogues in a system wherein education does not always result in opportunity. The following article
Contingency A Scholarship of Resistance: Bravery, Contingency, and Higher Education Higher education needs more bravery. Digital pedagogy, or any experimental critical pedagogy, is necessarily dangerous, often with real risks for both instructors and students, much of which can be valuable for learning. But when we experiment with our pedagogies, we confront an establishment that can be hostile to anything new
Critical Pedagogy It’s Time to Play: Games, Gamification, and Active Learning Play is making a comeback. There have beenTED Talks [http://www.ted.com/search?cat=ss_all&q=Play], peer-reviewed articles in pediatrics journals [http://www.pediatricsdigest.mobi/content/119/1/182.full], pieces inThe Atlantic [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1987/03/the-importance-of-play/305129/] , andan entire industry [http:
Digital Divide It’s About Class: Interrogating the Digital Divide I live and work in one of America’s poorest regions, Appalachia — specifically eastern Kentucky. Businesses and municipalities don’t have a strong web presence (if any at all), Google Maps is essentially useless for getting anywhere, and the social network is still, largely, the local Churches and quilting bees.
