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Travelling in Troy With an Instructional Designer

Critical Pedagogy

Travelling in Troy With an Instructional Designer

Instructional designers can build courses in which technologies are Trojan Horses for emancipation through constructionist problem-based learning.

Teacher of the Ear

Platforms

Chris Gilliard walks us through concerns he has about the state of online surveillance and dangers lurking behind asking students to work in online platforms.

Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages

Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages

Once upon a time, I taught a MOOC. Actually it was twice, and really it was only four years ago. It was a course called Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information, created for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and delivered through Coursera. Since I taught this course last,

Critical Digital Praxis in Wikipedia: The Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon

Critical Digital Praxis in Wikipedia: The Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon

Wikipedia’s gender gap, which results in problems of representation attributed to the lack of women and non-male editors participating in the encylopedia’s production, is by now well-known and well-documented. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force/research] A groundbreaking survey conducted

Are Apps Becoming the New Worksheet?

Digital Literacy

Are Apps Becoming the New Worksheet?

My daughter loves school. She used to line up her stuffed animals in rows and “teach” them for hours on end. When she got a special new doll for her 7th birthday named Isabelle, my daughter took it upon herself to catch her new addition up on all that she

Truthy Lies and Surreal Truths: A Plea for Critical Digital Literacies

Digital Literacy

Truthy Lies and Surreal Truths: A Plea for Critical Digital Literacies

Misinformation abounds. This has always been the case, but the problem has become acute in the age of digital communication. As Mike [https://hapgood.us/2016/11/13/fake-news-does-better-on-facebook-than-real-news/] Caulfield [https://hapgood.us/2016/11/13/fake-news-does-better-on-facebook-than-real-news/] and Zeynep Tufekci [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-is-in-denial.html]

Beyond Surface-Level Digital Pedagogy

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Beyond Surface-Level Digital Pedagogy

In 2013–14, a remarkable 20.5% [http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_318.20.asp](154,636) of all Master’s degrees were earned by students in the field of education. Only the field of business boasts a higher percentage of total Master’s degrees (25.

Making and Breaking Domain of One’s Own: Rethinking the Web in Higher Ed

Digital Pedagogy

Making and Breaking Domain of One’s Own: Rethinking the Web in Higher Ed

On Friday, 12 August 2016, Martha Burtis gave one of two closing keynotes at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute held at the University of Mary Washington. Below is the text of her talk; the audio above is edited fromthe video recording [https://youtu.be/lhlHKjtfjJ4?t=45m48s]of that morning’

Not Enough Voices

Digital Pedagogy

Not Enough Voices

On Friday, 12 August 2016, Sean Michael Morris gave one of two closing keynotes at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute held at the University of Mary Washington. Below is the text of his talk; the audio above is edited from the video recording [https://youtu.be/lhlHKjtfjJ4?t=45m48s] of

Whistling While They Worked: The Need for Creative Freedom in Collaborative Projects

Whistling While They Worked: The Need for Creative Freedom in Collaborative Projects

It began with a blank Google Doc. No ideas, no suggestions, and no direction. Just a notion that somehow three small high school classes could use a digital space to create something together even though they were physically apart. I was involved with digital and hybrid spaces as I worked

Winona Ryder and the Internet of Things

Digital culture

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

Making Disability Part of the Conversation: Combatting Inaccessible Spaces and Logics

Making Disability Part of the Conversation: Combatting Inaccessible Spaces and Logics

In a string of recent education articles, researchers have praised the benefits of hand-written notes and instructors have forbidden computers from classrooms. Frustrated with her student’s technological fixation, Associate Professor Carol E. Holstead reports [http://chronicle.com/article/The-Benefits-of-No-Tech-Note/228089/], “I told students they would have to take notes

Teaching in Our Right Minds: Critical Digital Pedagogy and the Response to the New

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Teaching in Our Right Minds: Critical Digital Pedagogy and the Response to the New

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 the UK. The university is home to progressive digital pedagogues like Bonnie Stewart and Dave Cormier, whose

Responsive Teaching

Digital Pedagogy

Responsive Teaching

Our teaching should be responsive, adapting to the situation, the students, and the semester, not determined by the textbook.

Teaching as Troubleshooting: What I Learned About Digital Pedagogy Behind the Wheel of a Beet Truck

Digital Pedagogy

Teaching as Troubleshooting: What I Learned About Digital Pedagogy Behind the Wheel of a Beet Truck

4:13AM. Sunrise was still hours away. My hands throttled the oversized steering wheel in front of me. My gaze was fixed out on the dark road ahead, too afraid to even blink. I was responsible for delivering sugar beets from the field to the processing plant, and this weighed

Learning as Weaving

Learning as Weaving

As educators, we want to teach in ways that support our students to be the best that they can be. We yearn for the lightbulb moment. We are so proud of them when they surprise us. We scream as loud as anyone when they break a record. We live vicariously

Digital Pedagogy, Part 2

Digital Pedagogy

Digital Pedagogy, Part 2

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?

Digital Pedagogy, Part 1

Digital Pedagogy

Digital Pedagogy, Part 1

Have we moved from analogue to digital teaching? We talk about transitioning learning into today’s technological era — about digital pedagogy.

Can you Murder a Novel? Part 1

Generative Fiction

Can you Murder a Novel? Part 1

After including the GenLit 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 semester all four of us shared our frustrations, questions, and perplexities, which later drove our inquiry into the

Teaching Digital Wisdom

Digital Pedagogy

Teaching Digital Wisdom

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 some use of course management tools like Blackboard and Moodle, instructors still can decide whether to incorporate

Call for Editors

Digital Pedagogy

Call for Editors

Note: this Call for Editors is now closed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The place of the editor is not above the writer, but beside. Editors are not meant to correct but to suggest, not to admonish but to inspire, not to coerce but to collaborate. To write is to enter a unique space

Community and Citizenship in the Computer Classroom

Community and Citizenship in the Computer Classroom

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, and are savvy with an array of technologies; they use phones that are smarter than the computers of just a few years ago. Students

Teaching as Wayfinding

Digital Pedagogy

Teaching as Wayfinding

The 21st century learning landscape demands a significant shift in the role, but not the importance, of the teacher. Smart use of relevant technology can help make that shift easier. In June of 2014, The Atlantic magazine published a piece by David Zweig: “How You Know Where You’re Going

Twitter Pedagogy: An Educator Down the Twitter Rabbit Hole

Digital Pedagogy

Twitter Pedagogy: An Educator Down the Twitter Rabbit Hole

How do we know if the new ‘it’ technology will work in our classroom? Will it create meaningful learning for our students, or even for ourselves as educators? As an educator whose research focus is on digital identities and technology in youth culture, I spend a lot of time concerned