Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People, Politics

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Hybrid Teaching

Care for others — faculty and students alike — has taken on critical importance. With political allegiances increasing division, social stratification increasing inequities, and new technologies increasing the precarity of academic labor, our education system can seem prepared to abandon, rather than support, its people. This book is third in a series from Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing exploring today’s ed-tech challenges through the lens of critical digital pedagogy.

When One Class is Not Enough

Service Learning

When One Class is Not Enough

We must find strength in numbers, because one classroom, one teacher, one program will never be enough. Our community needs our commitment in every class.

Introduction to Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People, Politics

Hybrid Teaching

Introduction to Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People, Politics

Caring for others has never been so vital. We teach humanity, not technology. Use hybrid education to build community.

A Foreword to Hybrid Teaching

Hybrid Pedagogy Books

A Foreword to Hybrid Teaching

Learning has to be a journey towards humanity, infusing criticality, creativity and collaboration with a deeper commitment to our common human flourishing.

Announcing Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People, Politics

Announcing Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People, Politics

Third in a series on critical digital pedagogy, this book challenges faculty and administrators to consider the implications of educational technology.

Slow Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinary

Slow Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity comes from learners — their fields, their experiences, their ways of knowing. It is a dynamic process, and it is slower than we think.

Do You Trust Your Students?

Do You Trust Your Students?

Classrooms can be spaces where students are practicing self-determination rather than training to be authoritarian subjects. We first have to trust them.

Pedagogical Violence and the Power of Language

Pedagogical Violence and the Power of Language

Being able to name violence (potential & past) gives students power & the ability to move through/against oppressive structures of the academy.

Seeking Patterns and Making Meaning: Digital Life in the Tangerine Era

Digital Literacy

Seeking Patterns and Making Meaning: Digital Life in the Tangerine Era

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].How do we as citizens, educators, parents, neighbors and consumers deal with the flood of political messaging in a polarized and polarizing phase in our society’s history? Amid the concerns about the crumbling

Weathered and worn wooden columns stand vigilant in still, cloudy waters. Perhaps they miss the pier they once supported.

(dis)Owning Tech: Ensuring Value and Agency at the Moment of Interface

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].Education is big business. In the U.S., over 5% [http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/expenditure-education-public-gdp#footnote]of gross domestic product is earmarked for education. Student debt in the U.S. is estimated

A pair of bright-red rubber rain boots stand in a cobblestone courtyard. The boots hold bunches of white flowers. Why not?

(Higher) Education as Bulwark of Uselessness

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].Almost two years ago, halfway through the twisting path that was my doctoral course, I found myself in Finland, at the “Critical Evaluation of Game Studies Seminar” [https://evaluationofgamestudiesseminar.wordpress.com/program/], where, above

Building Castles in the Air: Critical Digital Pedagogy and the Pursuit of Praxis

critical digital pedagogy

Building Castles in the Air: Critical Digital Pedagogy and the Pursuit of Praxis

“If you have built castles in the air…that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for teaching with technology, and the decisions about what the right tools are depends as much on the job as it does

Trust, Agency, and Connected Learning

Digital Literacy

Trust, Agency, and Connected Learning

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].What about our contemporary moment makes understanding trust important? Technology has the potential to both oppress and liberate. And social media is, right now, rapidly changing the nature of the academic landscape (for teachers,

Pedagogy, Prophecy, and Disruption

Critical Pedagogy

Pedagogy, Prophecy, and Disruption

Listen to the audio version here, read by the authorWithout consideration of its past, present, or future, critical digital pedagogy may become irrelevant before it begins in earnest. The forces of neoliberalism that critical pedagogues hoped to expose and remove have become extremely adept at moving into digital spaces. Online

Learning to Let Go: Listening to Students in Discussion

Learning to Let Go: Listening to Students in Discussion

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook.A class discussion where the teacher pre-determines the outcome is just a lecture in disguise, dressed up to feel student-centered while still being instructor-directed. When a class involves discussion, we owe it to our students to not know

A cardboard sign, reading "I NEED A MIRICLE," has seen better days. It's ripped and lying on concrete, abandoned.

From Ph.D. to Poverty

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].Another Ph.D. just applied for unemployment. I haven’t received any benefits because my claims are under review while the Employment Security Department determines reasonable assurance of reemployment. Per my contract with one

On Silence

The following article is republished from Hack Education [http://audreywatters.com/2014/08/16/on-silence/]with permission. Earlier this year Audrey and a handful of educators collaborated on a guide for teachers to use in starting conversations like this one. They write [http://practicaltheory.org/blog/2014/02/17/teaching-about-the-jordan-davis-murder/

A Soliloquy on Contingency

A Soliloquy on Contingency

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].I don’t share the sheer outrage that some adjunct professors are directing at the tenured ranks. I really do believe that the majority of tenured faculty — I obviously can’t speak for all

Children hard at work playing in the sand. Some play hopscotch, some draw things, some observe. Are these political acts?

Digital Humanities

The Political Power of Play

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].This peer-reviewed article was simultaneously prepared as a keynote address for Re:Humanities 2014 [http://blogs.haverford.edu/rehumanities/schedule/], a peer-reviewed undergraduate digital humanities conference held by the TriCollege Digital Humanities Initiative (Haverford,

Confessions of a Subversive Student

Confessions of a Subversive Student

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].My relationship with education has always been a kind of dissonant harmony. I have always loved learning, yet I have always felt like a rogue in the regimented institutions of homogenization. Today, the dissonance

Ghost Towns of the Public Good

Ghost Towns of the Public Good

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].I never really got tenure as a concept, and after almost ten years of e-learning I finally found a job which didn’t feature a ticking clock time bomb as its soundtrack. Sadly, in

N=1: A Social Scientific Inquiry into Happiness and Academic Labor

N=1: A Social Scientific Inquiry into Happiness and Academic Labor

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].ABSTRACT:This study aims to assess the professional perspectives of Ioana Literat (hereafter referred to as ‘the subject’), a fourth-year PhD student at a major US research university. The sample (N=1) was analyzed

Learning from Early Childhood Education: Higher Ed and the Process of Becoming

Critical Pedagogy

Learning from Early Childhood Education: Higher Ed and the Process of Becoming

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook.On my luckier days, I am gifted a few invisible moments at pick-up time before my son or one of his preschool classmates calls my name. It’s my time to see them as they are without me

It’s About Class: Interrogating the Digital Divide

It’s About Class: Interrogating the Digital Divide

I live and work in one of America’s poorest regions, Appalachia — specifically eastern Kentucky. Businesses and municipalities don’t have a strong web presence (if any at all), Google Maps is essentially useless for getting anywhere, and the social network is still, largely, the local Churches and quilting bees.