Pete Rorabaugh is an Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Media Arts at Kennesaw State Univ. Critical pedagogue, Americanist, father, husband, and co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy.
One of the most innovative educational ideas of the last century, we propose,
came from Paulo Friere, the Brazilian educational theorist and populist. In his
critique of “the banking model of education” in
Text becomes our voice in digital space. In the land-based classroom, we speak.
In the online classroom, we compose. What we write, the way that we write, and
our interactions with the writing
This is the first in a series [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/hybridity] of
articles that investigates hybridity as it relates to our positions as teachers
and scholars, but also as learners, composers,
On the simplest level, a learning management system is any organizational
pattern that assists teaching and learning. A grade book can also serve this
function; so can a journal or a 3-ring-binder. The
Grading and assessment are curious beasts, activities many instructors love to
hate but ones that nonetheless undergird the institutions where we work.
Peter Elbow begins his essay “Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out
Early web commenters referred to the Internet as a primitive, lawless place like
the “Wild West.” Plenty still needs to change to make certain parts of the web
more civil and useful, but
All participation is not equal. Digital media prompt us for comments, but in an
academic setting we should harness this cultural habit to teach the difference
between expressing opinion and authentic engagement. Professors
In his article “A Seismic Shift in Epistemology”
[http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/seismic-shift-epistemology] (2008), Chris
Dede draws a distinction between classical perceptions of knowledge and the
approach to knowledge underpinning Web