Keynote for Centennial Symposium at American University Cairo (Center for Learning and Teaching) - March 5, 2019

1. CATHERINE CRONIN
National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education
TEACHING IN AN AGE OF
COMPLEXITY:
Considering Open, Participatory, and
Equitable Pedagogies

2. slides and references are online:
http://bit.ly/cltauc-cronin

3. Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
catherinecronin.net
@ForumTL

4. #OER19

5. We are…
the national body responsible for leading and advising on the
enhancement of teaching and learning in Irish higher education
Our mission is…
as a national body, to lead the enhancement of teaching and learning
in partnership with students, staff and leaders in Irish higher education
to develop an inclusive, collaborative and innovative culture that
maximises learning impact for the success of all students

6. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things
pass.
Seamus Heaney, ‘Postscript’

7. networked
educators
networked
students
Physical
Spaces
Bounded
Online
Spaces
Open
Online
Spaces
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Catherine Cronin, built on Networked Teacher image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros
higher education

8. Participatory Culture
(Jenkins, et al. 2009)
low barriers to
artistic expression & civic engagement
strong support for
creating & sharing
informal mentorship
members believe their
contributions matter
social connection

9. multimodal
multimedia ✓ voice / choice
networked ✓ topic / content
social ✓ genre / tone
purposeful ✓ space / place
collaborative ✓ time / duration
agentic
Participatory Culture
literacy practices

10. Participatory Culture
(Jenkins, Ito, boyd, 2016)
low barriers to
artistic expression & civic engagement
strong support for
creating & sharing
informal mentorship
members believe their
contributions matter
social connection
∧

11. Image:CC0OliverCole
Equality of capability to
function fully as a
human being
(Therborn, 2013)

12. open
participatory
equitable
pedagogies

13. @bonstewart & @daveowhite
#TeachComUAL
teachcom.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

14. Image:CC0BY-NCJamesKirkpqtrick

15. Balancing privacy & openness
Image: CC BY 2.0 woodleywonderworks

16. Image: CC BY-NC yat fai ooi
ideas…

17. internethealthreport.org
Internet Health Report (Mozilla)

18. The digital divide is a noun; it is the consequence of
many forces. In contrast, digital redlining is a
verb, the “doing” of difference, a “doing” whose
consequences reinforce existing class structures. In one
era, redlining created differences in physical access to
schools, libraries, and home ownership. In my classes,
we work to recognize how digital redlining is integrated
into technologies, and especially education
technologies, and is producing similar kinds of
discriminatory results.
Chris Gilliard (2017)
“

19. #TeachComUAL
teachcom.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
Webinar #5. INCLUSIVE SPACES
March 5th, 3-4pm UTC
Bonnie Stewart, Maha Bali, Chris Gilliard

20. openpedagogy.org/
open resource created by Rajiv Jhangiani & RobinDeRosa

21. Don’t cite Wikipedia, write Wikipedia.
“
Ewan McAndrew (2017)
Wikimedian in Residence project
University of Edinburgh

22. http://unboundeq.creativitycourse.org
Equity Unbound
Exploring digital literacies with an equity and intercultural learning focus,
in an open and connected learning environment.
“The only way to make borders meaningless is to keep insisting on crossing them.”
(Lina Mounzer)

23. Ask students.
Partner with students.
bit.ly/cltauc-partnership

24. open
participatory
equitable
pedagogies

25. Engaging in open practice is:
Complex
Personal
Contextual
Continually negotiated
Cronin (2017)

26. We must rebuild institutions that value humans’
minds and lives and integrity and safety.
Audrey Watters (2017)
“
Image:CCBY-NC2.0carnagenyc

27. Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division
from the New York Public Library (public domain)
To hope is to give
yourself to the future,
and that commitment
to the future
makes the present
inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit (2004)
Hope in the Dark
“

28. Le spectre de la rose Jerome Robbins Dance Division
from the New York Public Library (public domain)
Shukraan.
Thank you.
@catherinecronin
catherinecronin.net
http://cltauc-cronin