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Indie, Open, Free: The Fraught Ideologies of Ed-Tech

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Indie, Open, Free: The Fraught Ideologies of Ed-Tech

I grew up in a middle-class American household, and I studied classical music. I took private lessons from seventh grade on. I owned my own instrument from eighth grade on. I upgraded to a professional-grade instrument at age 20 (with money saved from a paper route in junior high combined

In the Clutches of Algorithms

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In the Clutches of Algorithms

We sacrifice control in the name of convenience. As we become like cyborgs, we should expect more control over our technology. Tech has long aimed to provide additional conveniences for modern living, with the idea that a gadget would take care of something for us. The premise is that our

Winona Ryder and the Internet of Things

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Winona Ryder and the Internet of Things

“In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock!” ~ Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains” The more our tools are naturalized, invisible, or inscrutable, the less likely we are to interrogate them. The 2015 film The

Fountain: Scholarship and the Illusion of Permanence

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Fountain: Scholarship and the Illusion of Permanence

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 in a form that pushes at the edges of what ‘counts.’” The video features quotidian footage taken

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Networks

I talk with Bonnie Stewart about networks in education and society, plus how they work with activism, identity, and power relations.

Redefining Service for the Digital Academic: Scholarship, Social Media, and Silos

Redefining Service for the Digital Academic: Scholarship, Social Media, and Silos

I appreciate the agility available to the digital academic, but there is something a bit fun-house about all of this to me. Every day as part of my work as a college English professor and department chair, I encounter scores of new people in the digital space. We have exciting

Textual Communities: Writing, Editing, and Generation in Chicana Feminism

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Textual Communities: Writing, Editing, and Generation in Chicana Feminism

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 wasn’t what I had intended. I was referring to the act of editing — how was this

The Resident Web and Its Impact on the Academy

The Resident Web and Its Impact on the Academy

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 another; for example, one can gain more citations for papers by promoting them via Social Media networks

Critical Nostalgia: Pastoral and Technology in the Classroom

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Critical Nostalgia: Pastoral and Technology in the Classroom

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 find things without googling them in the old days before people had Google.” For a kid who

The Pedagogy of Trolls

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The Pedagogy of Trolls

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 historian of the early modern world, Shaw was able to make a meaningful contribution to an on-going

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Insoumis.

In Submission. 22nd May 2015 In January 2014 I signed up to study on Dave Cormier’s Rhizomatic Learning Course [https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/] , known often by those in a know by its hashtag #rhizo14. This course, acted as a catalyst in helping me develop a voice,

The Rules of Twitter

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The Rules of Twitter

Twitter is an incredibly dynamic digital tool that can create spaces of flattened hierarchies. These spaces can fuel inclusive pedagogy. But before teaching with Twitter, instructors have to think about how to use it together with students. What are the rules — particularly in relation to ethics? Twitter as a Digital

Spect-ops at Harvard: How a World-leading University Reacts to Techno-centrism

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Spect-ops at Harvard: How a World-leading University Reacts to Techno-centrism

“Screens so hi-def you might as well be there, cost effective videophonic conferencing, internal Froxx CD-ROM, electronic couture, all-in-one consoles (…) Half of all metro Bostonians now work from home via some digital link. 50% of all public education disseminated through accredited encoded pulses, absorbable at home on couches (…) saying this

Designing Critically: Feminist Pedagogy for Digital / Real Life

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Designing Critically: Feminist Pedagogy for Digital / Real Life

I’m a feminist teacher of writing and literature of over 25 years and, amazingly, I still love it. I love the transformative nature of critical feminist pedagogy, the dialogic classes where meaning is created together, and I am always learning from and with students. Having cultivated my teaching style

Risk, Reward, and Digital Writing

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Risk, Reward, and Digital Writing

Autocorrect is tyranny. It is interruption of thought, of speech, of creation, a condition for — and sometimes a prohibition against — my voice being heard. When I type “phone-less” and autocorrect changes it to “phenols”, when my sister-in-law’s name, Asya, is regularly corrected to “As yet”, even the simplest communication

Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: An Overview

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Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: An Overview

You are already a digital humanist, whether or not you know it. Digital humanities has exploded in popularity over the last decade, as evidenced by the creation of many different types of grants to help digital humanities research ( The Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment of the Humanities

The Standards of Critical Digital Pedagogy

Critical Digital Pedagogy CFP

The Standards of Critical Digital Pedagogy

This article is a response submitted for our series [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/critical-digital-pedagogy-cfp/] about critical digital pedagogy. See the original CFP for details [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-critical-digital-pedagogy/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Educational standards limit the consciousness towards which critical pedagogy aims. Yet, those committed to developing critical digital pedagogies

Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 2: Becoming Books

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Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 2: Becoming Books

On Tuesday, June 3, Hybrid Pedagogy released an announcement and CFP [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-generative-literature-project/] related to the first long-form project to be undertaken by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing. Two weeks later, we launched a crowdfunding campaign [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-interactive-music-theory-textbook] on Indiegogo to underwrite the creation

The Open, Interactive Music Theory Textbook

The Open, Interactive Music Theory Textbook

This Summer, Hybrid Pedagogy launched a new long-form publishing venture, spearheaded by Robin Wharton [http://www.robinwharton.com/]and Kris Shaffer [http://kris.shaffermusic.com]: Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing [http://www.hybridpedagogy.org/#publishing](HPP). > Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing seeks to encourage active public discourse by publishing works that are born out

Technology 101: What Do We Need To Know About The Future We're Creating?

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Technology 101: What Do We Need To Know About The Future We're Creating?

Howard Rheingold brought this piece to our attention after Jesse and Sean published “Is it Okay to Be a Luddite [http://learning.instructure.com/2014/06/is-it-okay-to-be-a-luddite/]” on Instructure’s Keep Learning blog. Originally published in 1998 as the start to a five-part series [http://www.rheingold.com/texts/techcrit/

Is It Okay to Be a Luddite?

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Is It Okay to Be a Luddite?

This piece was originally published [http://learning.instructure.com/2014/06/is-it-okay-to-be-a-luddite/] on Instructure’s Keep Learning blog. When it posted, we received a message from Howard Rheingold (NetSmart [http://rheingold.com/books/net-smart/]) linking us to a post last revised in May 1998. In that piece, he considers many

Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 1: The Work of Humanism

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Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 1: The Work of Humanism

On Tuesday, June 3, Hybrid Pedagogy released an announcement and CFP [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-generative-literature-project/] related to the first long-form project to be undertaken by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing. In the coming weeks, look for another announcement regarding a second project we have in the works. Kris Shaffer and

CFP: The Generative Literature Project

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CFP: The Generative Literature Project

Frederick and I are unlikely friends. We met as faculty members at Clark Atlanta University. We didn’t really know each other that well when we worked together, but after he left to take a job in Maryland and my job at Clark Atlanta started to shift, we talked more

Taking the ‘No’ Out of Innovation

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Taking the ‘No’ Out of Innovation

Innovate: French innover, from Old French, from Latin innovāre, innovāt-, to renew : in-, intensive pref.; in- + novāre, to make new (from novus, new). ~ adapted from OED online [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/innovate] I have a confession: I am afraid of the Internet. When I think about innovation in terms of