Using a Compass without a Map: The Journey of a Mother-Educator
Learners
Orienting Inquiry and Process We shape our lives at the intersection and interstices of choice and chance. Subject to the vicissitudes of chance, we must ask ourselves what choices we can make that
Messy Minds: The Autoethnography of Learning
Composition
I’ve had my arse handed to me a few times online. Enough times to realise that writing provocatively (whether intentional or not) is often worth the activity. The most memorable and behaviour
Risk Taking is a Form of Playing it Safe
Composition
We [http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=headwaters] like to talk [http://www.edutopia.org/blog/creating-space-for-risk-michael-thornton-cheryl-harris] about risk [https://iei.ncsu.edu/emerging-issues/ongoing-programs/generation-z/taking-action/teach-risk-taking/
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Teaching in Our Right Minds: Critical Digital Pedagogy and the Response to the New
critical digital pedagogy
Digital Pedagogy Lab will be hosting a second international institute [http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/pei/] at the University of Prince Edward Island from July 15-18, 2016, welcoming participants from across North America and
Responsive Teaching
Digital Pedagogy
Our teaching should be responsive, adapting to the situation, the students, and the semester, not determined by the textbook.
Fountain: Scholarship and the Illusion of Permanence
Digital culture
This is an experimental publication combining video and text. It was created in response to a call for papers [https://hybridpedagogy.org/cfp-scholarly-digital/] seeking a “meta-level consideration of what ‘counts’ as scholarship, ideally
From Under the Volcano
Academic Labor
Endings are difficult and painful: The lava of new beginnings flows under the hard, hollow shell of habit, threatening to burst out and create new forms. The era of the public intellectual is
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Notes Toward a Values-Driven Framework for Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Digital Humanities
There was a definite buzz in the room on an otherwise ordinary Friday morning. Faculty, administrators, librarians, and educational technologists had gathered to hear future plans for our university’s classrooms. A communication
The Purpose of Online Discussion
Online Learning
Are online discussions really discussions? I’ve been wondering this since I started teaching online. Many of my students, friends, and colleagues get a sour look on their face when it comes to
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Welding and the Meaning of Life
Critical Pedagogy
I find myself angry a lot lately, frequently at the charges of irrelevance leveled against my discipline of philosophy and liberal arts in general. These charges argue not just that philosophy is irrelevant.
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Whither the Digital Humanities?
Digital Humanities
The Digital Humanities (DH) can be viewed in two ways: as emerging and as emergent. * Emerging: Over the last two decades, as it grew from humanities computing into digital humanities [http://www.neh.
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Teaching as Troubleshooting: What I Learned About Digital Pedagogy Behind the Wheel of a Beet Truck
Digital Pedagogy
4:13AM. Sunrise was still hours away. My hands throttled the oversized steering wheel in front of me. My gaze was fixed out on the dark road ahead, too afraid to even blink.
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The Victorian MOOC
Community
It is 1873. Something unique is about to happen. A steam-train gathers speed in the background. Carriages on cobbled streets. In a dark room children sleep. In another room, a man reads a
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Plagiarism is Dead; Long Live the Retweet: Unpacking an Identity Crisis in Digital Content
Collaboration
“What oft was thought but ne’er so well express’d” Alexander Pope’s eighteenth century advice to writers — now known as content producers — has a new relevance for the Internet Age, although