Collaboration
Collaboration
This episode of HybridPod explores the idea of collaboration — how it works, what it is, and how we can facilitate it in our classes.
Yearning for Praxis: Writing and Teaching Our Way Out of Oppression
Critical Pedagogy
> “The problem is writing articles instead of making sure the articles actually change the world.”  —Martin Bickman, “Returning to Community and Praxis” I’ve been writing all my life, as my mom
Textual Communities: Writing, Editing, and Generation in Chicana Feminism
Digital culture
When I first proposed the research title “Editing Chicanas,” one of my mentors, Alice Gambrell, commented that it was a good title, partly because it prompted such anxiety. I was surprised, as anxiety
The Resident Web and Its Impact on the Academy
Academic Labor
Introduction Today scholars walk a difficult line when choosing how much time to spend gaining traction within their institutions or growing a reputation online. In many cases these approaches can build on one
Turned On: On the Impossibility of Queer (and) Composition
Composition
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche When, exactly, do we want less eroticism? ~ Geoffrey Sirc [https://muse.jhu.
17 min read
Situating Makerspaces in Schools
Digital Humanities
America’s obsession with STEM is dangerous [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-wont-make-us-successful/2015/03/26/5f4604f2-d2a5-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html] , Fareed Zakaria warns us, and our hunch is that most readers of Hybrid Pedagogy
Rationalizing Sisyphus
Learners
The words of one of the bleakest authors on the human condition adorn coffee mugs [http://www.cafepress.com/dd/48433856] and motivational posters [https://www.etsy.com/listing/192192368/instant-download-printable-typography?utm_source=
4 min read
Critical Nostalgia: Pastoral and Technology in the Classroom
Critical Pedagogy
The other day, a first-grader whom I tutor in reading explained to me his understanding of a dictionary, which he was just learning to use: “It’s what people used to use to
Digital Pedagogy, Part 2
Digital Pedagogy
New technology may make it too easy for us to focus on novelty, not on implications, in our digital pedagogy. What are risks & benefits of tech in class?
Peeking Under the Rug: Build a “Candid” Teaching Portfolio
failure
Teaching is hard. Teaching well is really hard. This paraphrase of Jeff Daniels’ reflection on the difficulties of writing [http://movieline.com/2010/04/21/jeff-daniels-writing-is-hard-writing-well-is-very-very-hard/] is not an adage, but it should
Public Archives, New Knowledge, and Moving Beyond the Digital Humanities/Digital Pedagogy Distinction
Collaboration
Let’s stop talking about “students” as some undifferentiated mass or referring to “my students,” a phrase that smacks of proprietorship, and start giving them credit by name for the work they do
Can You Murder a Novel? Part 4: Realism and Closure in the Mystery Novel
After including the Generative Literature Project in my Experimental Writing course during the Fall 2014 semester, three senior undergraduates remained mesmerized by the perceived novelty of a generative, digital novel. For the following
The Trouble with Frameworks
Learners
Using frameworks to study the social world is like looking at a still image through tinted glasses — making our perspective limited and color-blind — when the reality is complex and dynamic with colors and
Building Castles in the Air: Critical Digital Pedagogy and the Pursuit of Praxis
critical digital pedagogy
“If you have built castles in the air…that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for teaching with technology, and