Teacher of the Ear
Our podcast explores conversations of Critical Digital Pedagogy, listening for ways to empower students and champion learning. Each episode is hosted by Chris Friend and features interviews with creative pedagogues working in or out of academia, sharing insights and perspectives on how we can enhance learning and teaching in our lives. 24 posts
Questioning Learning
Discovery
Amy Collier emphasizes the importance of questioning — as a means of improving our teaching, enhancing student learning, and understanding our contexts.
Responsive Teaching
Digital Pedagogy
Our teaching should be responsive, adapting to the situation, the students, and the semester, not determined by the textbook.
Networks
Digital culture
I talk with Bonnie Stewart about networks in education and society, plus how they work with activism, identity, and power relations.
Collaboration
Collaboration
This episode of HybridPod explores the idea of collaboration — how it works, what it is, and how we can facilitate it in our classes.
Digital Pedagogy, Part 2
Digital Pedagogy
New technology may make it too easy for us to focus on novelty, not on implications, in our digital pedagogy. What are risks & benefits of tech in class?
Digital Pedagogy, Part 1
Digital Pedagogy
Have we moved from analogue to digital teaching? We talk about transitioning learning into today’s technological era — about digital pedagogy.
Play in Education
Profession
This episode explores the assertion that “play is serious business” and tests the ways in which it can be applied to today’s educational environments.
Assessment and Generosity
Assessment
Kris Shaffer and Asao Inoue discuss generous ways to assess student work, and we’ll hear from Lee Skallerup Bessette to consider institutional assessment, empathy, and student needs.
Compassion and Integrity
Academic Labor
Common systems that check finished work for signs of plagiarism turn it into a punitive situation, rather than a teaching opportunity. What if we looked at citation as a compassionate authorial act? Could we situate quoting and referencing as an act of academic kindness?
Listening to Students
Listening
In this episode, we’ll explore some of the benefits we can get, and improvements we can make, if we essentially talk less and listen more.