Running into each other on the Columbia University campus, we often chatted
about books, teaching and learning, music, plants, Broadway shows, and our
theories about how new ideas happened. We shared what inspired
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.
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
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?
Every educator, from kindergarten to graduate school, should contribute to the
important and significant work of teaching students to use online sources and
social networks for educational and professional goals. To ignore the
Hashtags are taxonomic and pedagogical tools (with citation standards to boot
[http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2853518/modern-language-association-standard-format-citing-tweets]
).The Twitter hashtag was born in 2007
[http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/
In his article, “Open-source Scholarship
[http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Open_Source_Scholarship.html]”,
Kris Shaffer argues that the open-source software model has lessons to offer the
academic community. Here, Kris demonstrates
There are better forums for discussion than online discussion forums. The
discussion forum is a ubiquitous component of every learning management system
and online learning platform from Blackboard to Moodle to Coursera. Forums
It’s time to confront our bias against open sources and redefine how our
students research in digital environments. We should both allow them to use the
research sites that are most handy,
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
This sentence — this one right here — is the first sentence I’ve written in two
months that wasn’t co-authored in a Google Doc. It’s the first sentence, outside
of e-mails and
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are walled gardens. They provide substantial
control over the environment in which learning activities take place, and at
first glance this appears to be a good thing. For this
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
