Eliciting both passion and bloviating, the topic of appropriate technology use in the college classroom is sure to spark lively conversation among college instructors. While more and more institutions are requiring at least

> The Twitter format lends itself to excitement, leaping out, connecting with people over content, not into content, and offers opportunities for people to make what they want of out of journal article

What do we mean when we use the phrase, “in the real world”? As many of us are in a state of transition between school and work, styles of work, or a balance

This post originally appeared on HASTAC [http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2015/06/18/why-start-pedagogy-4-good-reasons-4-good-solutions] on June 18, 2015. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m often asked why I start with pedagogy, given the larger

Academic librarians are worried about power. And powerlessness. They are particularly concerned with the way power dynamics shape their identities as educators and inform their pedagogical capacity. Recent library scholarship has introduced a

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

On June 29, 2015 at the ISTE Conference in Philadelphia, Audrey Watters spoke on a panel called “Is it Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools?”. The transcript of her speech can

Our choice of words is never value-free. Language runs deep in us — setting the perspective of our daily lives and prevailing attitudes. In educational environments, “a lot of what upholds our standards of

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

This July we are launching Digital Pedagogy Lab Courses, a series of professional development opportunities for educators, librarians, technologists, and instructional designers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our project has had many starts. We have started it

Few things annoy me more than burning time on bureaucratic paperwork. Frankly, as an educator, my time and attention should be centered on students and learning — and that includes  modifying and selecting readings

In January, 2014, we participated in the MOOC Rhizomatic Learning: The community is the curriculum [https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/] (#rhizo14) facilitated by Dave Cormier [http://davecormier.com/]. A group of

We have an immense amount of power, if we reach out and harness it. This is not just some new age abstraction. To be specific: anyone can create a website, a video, a

Andrew Shaw’s “The College Experience: A Modern-Day Paddy West [http://www.hastac.org/blogs/andrew-shaw/2014/02/16/college-experience-modern-day-paddy-west] ?” demonstrates the value of asking undergraduates to prepare and publish assignments. As an