Reviewer: Chris Friend
23 posts
The Menagerie, Myths and Merits of the Bitmoji Classroom
simulation
Educators don’t have to forfeit fun for quality online learning, but they do need to build authentic learning when using digital simulation tools.
6 min read
The #OthelloSyllabus: Twitter as Play
Twitter Essay
In a class on critical race theory and hashtag activism, Twitter's paradoxical mix of anonymity and public writing developed students' cultural competency.
Audible Networks:
Podcasts and Collaborative Learning
Collaboration
Collaborative podcast creation makes visible – or rather, audible – webs and relations, the intellectual and affective ties possible among students.
The Documents We Teach By
praxis
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.
Syllabus-as-Metaphor
syllabus
We can help — or risk harm — with the metaphors our syllabi embody, and so to serve students as best we can, we must choose our metaphors well.
11 min read
Opening the Classroom: Ownership and Engagement
Critical Pedagogy
It was time to open up the classroom. I was tired of doing class on my own. Tired of designing lesson plans that minutely mapped every second of my time together with the students. It was time for students to take ownership of class.
Learning at the Intersections
Service Learning
Students were writing about & for asylum seekers in a tumultuous political climate. A service learning initiative quickly became a matter of life or death.
Seeking Patterns and Making Meaning: Digital Life in the Tangerine Era
Digital Literacy
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
A Soliloquy on Contingency
Academic Labor
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.