Presentation to ALT conference Sept. 2021

1. Critical Digital Pedagogy in HE:
Broadening Horizons, Bridging Theory
and Practice
Chris Rowell & Matt Acevedo | September 2021

2. Introductions:
 Chris Rowell - Senior Digital Learning Coordinator – UAL
 Matt Acevedo - Director, Learning Innovation and Faculty
Engagement at University of Miami
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3. New book ….
Critical Digital Pedagogy in HE: Broadening
Horizons, Bridging Theory and Practice.
Edited by Suzan Koseoglu, George Veletsianos
and Chris Rowell
https://www.aupress.ca/
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4. Why this book and why now?
 Changes in HE
 Techno-solutionism
 Covid19
 Practical examples
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5. The Panoptic Gaze and the Discourse of
Academic Integrity – Matt Acevedo

6. “Academic integrity”
 responsibilizing students to act in ways that are expected by the institution
 relates to “cheating” and “plagiarism,” particularly in relation to high stakes
assessments
 limited responsibility for faculty and instructors

9. How the discourse of academic integrity frames
students
 “cheating has become one of the major problems in education today” (Singhal
(1982, p. 775)
 Cheating in college is an “epidemic” (Haines, Diekhoff, LaBeff, and Clark,
1986, p. 342); factors that prompt cheating behaviors include student
immaturity, lack of student commitment to academics, and a “neutralizing
attitude” that justifies their immoral actions to themselves and others.
 “College faculty members face a continual battle to maintain integrity in their
classrooms” (Manly, Leonard, and Riemenschneider, 2015, p. 579)
 Fundamental attribution error

10. Reframing of academic integrity
 institutions and institutional agents themselves should “do the right thing”
 inverts the responsibilization for its creation and maintenance from students to
us (teachers, administrators, faculty developers, institutional agents)
 faculty, as the primary conduits of power and bearers of authority in academic
environments, should design learning environments that do not cause the
creation of cheaters

11. Enacting academic integrity: Strategies and
technologies
 ungrading
 honoring a plurality of experience
 embracing open-endedness
 enabling students as creators

12. 4 Themes of CDP – Chris Rowell

13. Theme 1: Shared Learning & Trust
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14. Theme 2: Critical Consciousness
Ella Williams presenting
2020 BA Film and Screen Studies, London College of Communication, UAL | Photograph: Alys Tomlinson
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15. Theme 3: Change
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16. Theme 4: Hope
Image:
Bixentro: CC by 2.0
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17. arts.ac.uk
Thank you

18. Further questions:
If you have any further questions you can contact us on Twitter:
 Chris Rowell @chri5rowell
 Matt Acevedo @mattacevedo
Co-authors:
 Suzan Koseoglo @suzankoseoglu
 George Veletsianos @veletsianos
Add the conference hashtag #altc21
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