Schools won't embrace education as the practice of freedom if it rocks the boat too much. How might we care for a student’s soul in a disruptive sense?
It was time to open up the classroom. I was tired of doing class on my own. Tired of designing lesson plans that minutely mapped every second of my time together with the students. It was time for students to take ownership of class.
On February 16, 2018, Sean Michael Morris and Lora Taub-Pervizpour presented a
joint keynote for a Digital Pedagogy Lab event at the University of Delaware.
Below is the transcript for that presentation.
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Some platforms are not agnostic. Not all tools can be hacked to good use. Critical Digital Pedagogy demands we approach our tools and technologies always with one eyebrow raised.
“Knowledge creation is a conversation.”
— R. David Lankes
“I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions — a movement against and
beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of
freedom.”
— bell hooks
“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/
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
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
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
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
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.
In the interests of transparency, the following is a letter sent by e-mail to
the editorial staff of Hybrid Pedagogy. We’re sharing this, and another letter
below, with our community.
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Pedagogy is a strange beast
Many teachers first hear the word pedagogy when they enter graduate school.
Until then, we are surrounded by it — we see it being modeled, enacted, and
refined by
