On Friday, 12 August 2016, Sean Michael Morris gave one of two closing keynotes
at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute held at the University of Mary Washington.
Below is the text of his
Students ask about our interests and lives to understand & connect with us. What happens when the answers reveal more about us than we’re ready to share?
We sacrifice control in the name of convenience. As we become like cyborgs, we
should expect more control over our technology. Tech has long aimed to provide
additional conveniences for modern living, with
“My teaching portfolio speaks of challenges and failures alongside successes,
all woven into a narrative organically establishing who I am and why I do what I
do.”
—Martin Kutnowski [https://hybridpedagogy.org/candid-teaching-portfolio/
It began with a blank Google Doc. No ideas, no suggestions, and no direction.
Just a notion that somehow three small high school classes could use a digital
space to create something together
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook
[https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].Almost two years ago, halfway through the
twisting path that was my doctoral course, I found myself
“What should academics do on Twitter?”
At a recent roundtable workshop on developing a professional academic digital
identity, I heard the first four speakers address that question which I have
heard so many
“In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get
up, time to get up, seven o’clock!”
~ Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains”
The more our tools
Every day, students across the country open the doors to their classrooms and
see a stranger standing where their regular teacher should be. “Are you our
sub?” they demand in a less than
For a class discussion to be student-centered, teachers must cede control, and
teachers must listen. For many reasons though, these tasks prove difficult.
Teachers often do not want to cede control during a
In recent years the long hidden problem of the adjunct faculty has become widely
recognized, as in a series of articles in Hybrid Pedagogy published in 2013 and
a current CFP there, The
Amy Collier emphasizes the importance of questioning — as a means of improving our teaching, enhancing student learning, and understanding our contexts.
This is an open, ongoing call. You can read the articles already written in
response [https://hybridpedagogy.org/tag/graduate-teachers-cfp/], or consider contributing
your own [https://hybridpedagogy.org/write/].
The May 2016 #digped
In a string of recent education articles, researchers have praised the benefits
of hand-written notes and instructors have forbidden computers from classrooms.
Frustrated with her student’s technological fixation, Associate Professor Carol
E.
