“I feel I have just been beaten down with everything I have ever written.” The confessions begin at first reluctantly. Then, they gain momentum: “Writing feels...Read More
“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...Read More
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...Read More
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....Read More
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...Read More
In January, 2014, we participated in the MOOC Rhizomatic Learning: The community is the curriculum (#rhizo14) facilitated by Dave Cormier. A group of us decided to...Read More
Embracing our subjectivity as teachers can be tricky; I’ve written several times about how complex it is when teachers make the choice to be non-neutral. I’ve...Read More
Traditional college students of today are completely mediated. They can tweet, text, and post to Instagram all day long; they swim through a sea of media,...Read More
I am deeply disturbed by dominant discourses in society that silence the voices of others, particularly women and ethnic minorities. I am frustrated by people who...Read More
“I am not alone. There are accidental pedagogues everywhere, teachers without classrooms who left the academy but kept their ears and eyes open for when a...Read More
It is not too hard to recognize that educational institutions, to a large degree, determine the process of engagement with learning and engagement with the learners....Read More
We are all animals of speech and expression, we are creative beasts with crayons, we are all authors, and we are all founding mothers and fathers...Read More
Hashtags are taxonomic and pedagogical tools (with citation standards to boot). The Twitter hashtag was born in 2007. Invented by Chris Messina (then with the consulting firm...Read More
Most of us are not strangers to the concept of the forum. Forums are attached to nearly every type of community building platform that hopes to...Read More
There are better forums for discussion than online discussion forums. The discussion forum is a ubiquitous component of every learning management system and online learning platform...Read More
This #digped chat about peer-to-peer learning, or learning in the collective, was inspired by John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas’ book, A New Culture of Learning. In that book, the authors...Read More
On Friday, May 3 from 1:00 – 2:00pm Eastern (10:00 – 11:00am Pacific), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion under the hashtag #digped focused on the notion of the...Read More
In A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown write, “Embracing Change means looking forward to...Read More
In this article for the Guardian, George Monbiot calls academic publishing “economic parasitism” and academic publishers “monopolists,” which brings up a broader discussion about the purpose...Read More
RT @Jessifer: This year I published a book with @slamteacher. It is an ode to teachers, to the work of teaching, to the increasing challeng… 48 days ago
RT @Jessifer: “The work of higher education — as with all of education — has to begin with a deep respect for students.”
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RT @hope4college: #RealCollege students are talented and hard-working but too often go without sufficient food and shelter. The Hope Center… 70 days ago
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