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A Classroom Romance

A Classroom Romance

Loving my students has been the greatest pedagogical breakthrough I’ve had. Instructors must remain vulnerable to what is loveable about students.

The Safety Paradox

The Safety Paradox

Two news stories at the beginning of the 2016 fall semester reignited an ongoing debate about the importance of safety in higher education. The first was a letter [https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/25/u-chicago-warns-incoming-students-not-expect-safe-spaces-or-trigger-warnings] sent to incoming students at the University of Chicago by John Ellison, Dean

“College Readiness” versus “Ready for College”

“College Readiness” versus “Ready for College”

We have lots of definitions of “college readiness”; here are the ACT’s definitions [http://www.act.org/standard/] as well as the Common Core’s in Language Arts [http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/introduction/students-who-are-college-and-career-ready-in-reading-writing-speaking-listening-language/] (as for math, it’s simply “all the math [http://www.corestandards.org/Math/

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

CFP: Preparing Graduate Teachers

CFP: Preparing Graduate Teachers

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 chat hosted by Digital Pedagogy Lab highlighted the disconnect between the work graduate students are asked to

Using a Compass without a Map: The Journey of a Mother-Educator

Using a Compass without a Map: The Journey of a Mother-Educator

Orienting Inquiry and Process We shape our lives at the intersection and interstices of choice and chance. Subject to the vicissitudes of chance, we must ask ourselves what choices we can make that purposefully reflect the values we hold and those we wish to see take root in the world.

Messy Minds: The Autoethnography of Learning

Messy Minds: The Autoethnography of Learning

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 changing occasion was when I wrote about how important it is for history teachers to teach their

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

Addressing Ageism in the 21st Century Classroom

Critical Pedagogy

Addressing Ageism in the 21st Century Classroom

> “It makes no more sense to wish for age than to fear it.” – Gloria Steinem When I entered my Introduction to Women’s Studies class in the fall of 2014 and saw an “older” female student I thought ‘Oh good, she will be more focused and will do well in

Situating Makerspaces in Schools

Digital Humanities

Situating Makerspaces in Schools

America’s obsession with STEM is dangerous [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-wont-make-us-successful/2015/03/26/5f4604f2-d2a5-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html] , Fareed Zakaria warns us, and our hunch is that most readers of Hybrid Pedagogy would tend to agree. We, Colin and Josh, certainly do. But the conversation that typically follows that

Rationalizing Sisyphus

Rationalizing Sisyphus

The words of one of the bleakest authors on the human condition adorn coffee mugs [http://www.cafepress.com/dd/48433856] and motivational posters [https://www.etsy.com/listing/192192368/instant-download-printable-typography?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_low-art_and_collectibles-prints-other&utm_custom1=65395a4b-93b2-4707-9d05-167214b9cda9&kpid=192192368&gclid=

Public Archives, New Knowledge, and Moving Beyond the Digital Humanities/Digital Pedagogy Distinction

Public Archives, New Knowledge, and Moving Beyond the Digital Humanities/Digital Pedagogy Distinction

Let’s stop talking about “students” as some undifferentiated mass or referring to “my students,” a phrase that smacks of proprietorship, and start giving them credit by name for the work they do and the knowledge they create. George Oppen made the bold statement in 1968 that new knowledge “could”

The Trouble with Frameworks

The Trouble with Frameworks

Using frameworks to study the social world is like looking at a still image through tinted glasses — making our perspective limited and color-blind — when the reality is complex and dynamic with colors and sights and sounds and smells and subtleties that cannot be captured in a frame. Frameworks attempt to

#GenLit as #Netprov

Generative Fiction

#GenLit as #Netprov

Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing is our experiment in longer-form work related to critical digital pedagogy. For the past year and a half, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing has been providing editorial and technical support to the Generative Literature Project, which is producing a crowdsourced, gamified digital novel about a murder. Hybrid Pedagogy is

Creating Mike Sterling for the #GenLit Project

Generative Fiction

Creating Mike Sterling for the #GenLit Project

Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing is our experiment in longer-form work related to critical digital pedagogy. For the past year and a half, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing has been providing editorial and technical support to the Generative Literature Project, which is producing a crowdsourced, gamified digital novel about a murder. Hybrid Pedagogy is

Perspectives from the #GenLit Classroom: A Professor and Student Converse

Generative Fiction

Perspectives from the #GenLit Classroom: A Professor and Student Converse

Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing [http://hybrid.pub/]is our experiment in longer-form work related to critical, digital pedagogy. For the past year and a half, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing has been providing editorial and technical support to the Generative Literature Project [http://www.genlitproject.org/], which is producing a crowdsourced, gamified digital

What is Generative Literature? Introducing “The Generative Literature Project”

Generative Fiction

What is Generative Literature? Introducing “The Generative Literature Project”

Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing [http://hybrid.pub/] is our experiment in longer-form work related to critical, digital pedagogy. For the past year and a half, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing has been providing editorial and technical support to the Generative Literature Project [http://www.genlitproject.org/], which is producing a crowdsourced, gamified digital

Librarian as Outsider

Librarian as Outsider

Academic librarians are worried about power. And powerlessness. They are particularly concerned with the way power dynamics shape their identities as educators and inform their pedagogical capacity. Recent library scholarship has introduced a number of compelling arguments for pedagogical alternatives to what Freire calls the “banking concept of education [http:

Training to Work in the Wet

Training to Work in the Wet

What do we mean when we use the phrase, “in the real world”? As many of us are in a state of transition between school and work, styles of work, or a balance of both, are we living a less real life if we don’t work for a corporation?

What We Can Learn from Homeschooling

What We Can Learn from Homeschooling

Our homeschooling journey began nearly a decade ago, when our three year-old daughter started preschool. I was certain she would love school. She didn’t. We cycled through three schools. At one, teachers thought putting blue eyeshadow and rouge on the girls, using the same applicators for all, would be

Lossless Learning: an Interview with Jared Stein

Lossless Learning: an Interview with Jared Stein

The following is an interview with Jared Stein, Vice President of Research and Education at Instructure, the makers of the Canvas LMS. Following a press release in June that announced a suite of digital products for the hybrid classroom, we caught up with Jared to get a little insight into

A Safe Space for Dangerous Ideas; a Dangerous Space for Safe Thinking

Critical Digital Pedagogy CFP

A Safe Space for Dangerous Ideas; a Dangerous Space for Safe Thinking

Danger and safety are both integral to education, particularly if one ascribes to critical pedagogy, which is, in many respects, about balancing the two elements. On one hand, it invites students and teachers alike to break free from safe thinking: to consider what they have been taught; to rethink the

Exploring the Dungeon: The Importance of “Play” to Learning

Critical Pedagogy

Exploring the Dungeon: The Importance of “Play” to Learning

A weak light filters in through frosted windows and splashes across a table-sized world map as a gallery of onlookers poke each other and whisper in hushed tones. Two figures stand over the map and point to borders and replicas of military units, vocally processing the pros and cons of

Three Lines of Resistance: Ethics, Critical Pedagogy, and Teaching Underground

Critical Digital Pedagogy CFP

Three Lines of Resistance: Ethics, Critical Pedagogy, and Teaching Underground

This article is a response submitted for ourseries [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/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is easy for those of us invested in critical pedagogy to see need for major change in education

Discovering Natural Classrooms: Hybrid Collective Learning Spaces

Critical Pedagogy

Discovering Natural Classrooms: Hybrid Collective Learning Spaces

For many, the classroom is an alienating place. There are environmental factors that play into this (and monetary factors that play into these environmental ones). There are stigmas, expectations, and traditions that may interfere with learning. In attending and visiting various college campuses around the country I frequently see the