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.
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
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.
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
We won’t take this lying down. No, we will join together, combine our voices,
and raise our own kind of hell. The 2016 U.S. presidential election is still a
fresh wound
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/
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
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;
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
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
“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
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.
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
