Pedagogy
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The Play’s The Thing: Lessons from Preschool Storytimes  for College Classrooms
editors’ picks
Though one might imagine that suggestions emerging from a preschool storytime may not seem to be a likely source of wisdom for an adult audience, I find that we often forget the importance
The Phenomenology of Participation: Derrida and the Future of Pedagogy
Critical Pedagogy
Hospitality [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/#ElaBasArgWorHos] in the classroom and digital pedagogical practices encourage participatory pedagogy [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/participant-pedagogy-a-digped-discussion/] and collective action. This model of learning and teaching
Practice and Performance: Teaching Urban Literature at the Less than Liberal Arts
Alterity CFP
“Literature can be our teacher as well as our object of investigation” —Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak To say that being the only African American woman professor at a small, liberal arts college in the
Correctional Pedagogy: Prison Reform and Life-or-Death Learning
Critical Pedagogy
Education cannot just be filling an empty brain, but must be as Paulo Freire says in Pedagogy of the Oppressed [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed/oKQMBAAAQBAJ], “the means
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The Pedagogies of Reading and Not Reading
Agency
“There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to open a book at all.” ~ Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Developer, Financier, Designer: Building Hybrid Projects outside the University
Open Education
“I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities — and found no statues of Committees.”~ G K Chesterston About two years ago circumstances reduced my full time job in a UK university
On Being a Double Agent
Community
When I was in graduate school working on my Ph.D. in English, I spent quite a few hours in the TA office, an expansive room in the basement of the English building,
We May Need to Amputate: MOOCs, Resistance, #FutureEd
Contingency
The ability or inability of a group or culture to progress is in direct relationship to the proliferation of aphorism within it. General statements of fact and abbreviations of great wisdom are misleading
Learning as Performance: MOOC Pedagogy and On-ground Classes
Assessment
How different would our education system be if we focused on learning for learning’s sake, rather than for the sake of tests, exams, and homework checks — if performance really mattered?
Hacking the Screwdriver: Instructure’s Canvas and the Future of the LMS
Canvas
There’s nothing wrong with Blackboard, except in the way that there’s something wrong with all of it. AtInstructureCon 2012 [http://www.instructure.com/instructurecon], we noticed a lot of hate being
Flipping Faculty Development: Teacher Training and Open Education
Faculty Development
Audience has been a critical concern during our first five months at work on Hybrid Pedagogy. We realize the need to consciously expand our audience — to consider institutions and colleagues outside of the
How to Storify. Why to Storify.
Tools
Intended to serve as a stop-motion camera for the torrent of information we get from social media, Storify allows the user to arrange pieces of conversations to construct a narrative. When we first
On Pedagogical Manipulation
Critical Pedagogy
Encouraging learning is an act of subtle manipulation. When we enter a classroom, we’re stepping onto a stage. This is true no matter how student-centered our classroom is, because our students are
Hybridity, pt. 1: Virtuality and Empiricism
Critical Pedagogy
This is the first in a series [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/hybridity] of articles that investigates hybridity as it relates to our positions as teachers and scholars, but also as learners, composers,