How many of us closely read our own syllabi, not for typos but for pedagogy? How many of us think about the subtle and overt messages they send to our students?
Documents play significant roles in our practices. It is an invitation to see what documents do to our work. They promote particular educational values and establish norms and conventions that we then must follow (over time) blindly and diligently.
“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