This is a collection of articles from Hybrid Pedagogy, a journal of digital and critical pedagogy, and online learning. The slides represent highlights from the journals first few years. The presentation this was made for focused on new approaches to scholarly writing, pedagogy, and publishing.
Against Counteranthropomorphism: The Human Future of EducationJesse Stommel
In Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, Stanley Milgram coined the term “counteranthropomorphism” — the tendency we have to remove the humanity of people we can’t see. These may be people on the other side of a wall, as in Milgram’s famous (or infamous) experiments, or people mediated by technology in a virtual classroom. Our turn to digital solutionism has frustrated our attempts at imagining a humane future for higher education. The less we understand our tools, the more we are beholden to them. The more we imagine our tools as transparent or invisible, the less able we are to take ownership of them. It is essential that we consider our tools carefully and critically—that we empty all our LEGOs onto the table and sift through them before we start building. Some tools are decidedly less innocuous than others. And some tools can never be hacked to good use. Remote proctoring tools can’t ensure that students will not cheat. Turnitin won’t make students better writers. The LMS can’t ensure that students will learn. All will, however, ensure that students feel more thoroughly policed. All will ensure that students (and teachers) are more compliant.
Ultimately, the future of education is humans not tools, and our efforts at hacking, forking, and remixing education should all be aimed at making and guarding space for students and teachers. If there is a better sort of mechanism that we need for the work of digital pedagogy, it is a machine, an algorithm, a platform tuned not for delivering and assessing content, but for helping all of us listen better to students. But we can’t get to a place of listening to students if they don’t show up to the conversation because we’ve already excluded their voice in advance by creating environments hostile to them and their work.
Critical Pedagogy, Organic Writing, and the Changing Nature of ScholarshipJesse Stommel
Using critical pedagogy as the foundation for their work in hybrid and fully-digital environments, Jesse Stommel (Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at University of Wisconsin-Madison; @Jessifer) and Pete Rorabaugh (Assistant Professor of English in the English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts Department at Southern Polytechnic State University; @allistelling) explore how academic writing and scholarship are changing from within and without. Pete discusses the practice of Organic Writing and how the affordances of digital environments allow us to explore how to teach writing as a creative and critical thinking process. Jesse focuses on the ways that new-form multimodal scholarship upsets the distinction between academic writing and public outreach.
Zombie Pedagogies: Embodied Learning in the Digital AgeJesse Stommel
Video Preview: http://bit.ly/digitalhuman
There is no one pedagogical strategy that works for all students and teachers or in all situations. The space of the classroom is shifting and dynamic, so we need our pedagogies to proliferate, not to congeal. Like Mary Shelley’s monster in Frankenstein, who is also an amalgam, we are being (re)made online, as our flesh is reduced to a husk, a remainder. We crave, and are nostalgic for, a visceral experience of the body, and our increasing cultural interest in the zombie is part and parcel of this. The zombie is not the villain in this scenario but a metaphorical antidote to the erosion of our physicality. As our reliance on technology increases, the zombie asks us to discover in the digital what remains voraciously humane. As pedagogical beasts, zombies advance slowly and deliberately. They limp, stumble, moan, and clamor as they surge forth, all in imperfect unison, a cacophony of sounds, always walking, always reaching. And so a hybrid digital pedagogy demands we create more collaborative and less hierarchical spaces for learning -- lest we use computers to replicate the vestigial structures of industrial-era education.
Rewriting the syllabus: Examining New Hybrid and Online PedagogiesJesse Stommel
We have to carefully build our classroom and educational space online before we start populating it, lest text, hierarchical menus, and pop-up windows be confused with interactivity and community.
Teachers stand to learn more from students about online learning than we could ever teach. Many students come to an online or hybrid class knowing very well how to learn online. It’s often our failure to know as well how to learn online that leads to many of the design mistakes in this generation of online courses.
Digital Pedagogy is about Breaking Stuff: Toward a Critical Digital Humanitie...Jesse Stommel
Pedagogy is not just a delivery device for the digital humanities. It should be at the core of what the digital humanities is as an academic discipline.
New-form Scholarship and the Public digital humanitiesJesse Stommel
New-form scholarship reconsiders citation and peer-review, while re-imagining the containers and audiences for academic work. Digital platforms, like Twitter, open-access journals, and blogs offer both limitations and possibilities. The public digital humanities is built around networked learning communities, not repositories for content, and its scholarly product is a conversation, one that engages a broad public while blurring the distinction between research, teaching, service, and outreach. In short, the public digital humanities starts with humans, not technologies or tools.
Graduate Training in 21st Century PedagogyJesse Stommel
If teaching, or related activity, is 40 – 90% of most full-time faculty jobs in higher ed., pedagogical study should constitute at least 40% of the work graduate students do toward a graduate degree.
Stand and Unfold Yourself: MOOCs, Networked Learning, and the Digital HumanitiesJesse Stommel
I have Shakespeare tattooed on my forearms. On my right arm is the first line from Hamlet in binary code. On my left arm is the latter half of the second line of Hamlet in hexadecimal code.
The first line of the play, “Who’s there?,” does several things: quite literally, the speaker asks the listener on stage to identify herself; when performed, the line is also spoken to the off-stage or off-screen audience, calling attention to their simultaneous presence both within and outside the world of Shakespeare’s play; finally, it is a deeper question from Shakespeare about the nature of being. The question takes on a new and different set of potential meanings when it is read on the screen of a computer, iPad, Kindle, or smart phone, forcing contemporary readers of Shakespeare to question the nature of their own humanity in the face of rapid technological changes. Just as who we are as humans could be contained and expressed in the language of a theatrical play, now we must also consider who we become when our selves are reduced to the flurry of 1s and 0s that constitute us in our Facebook profiles, Tweets, and text messages. No matter which medium or device we use to encounter a play like Hamlet, no matter what self we bring to the encounter, Shakespeare continues to ask these questions of us, continues to ask who we are, what we see, and how we know.
Against Counteranthropomorphism: The Human Future of EducationJesse Stommel
In Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, Stanley Milgram coined the term “counteranthropomorphism” — the tendency we have to remove the humanity of people we can’t see. These may be people on the other side of a wall, as in Milgram’s famous (or infamous) experiments, or people mediated by technology in a virtual classroom. Our turn to digital solutionism has frustrated our attempts at imagining a humane future for higher education. The less we understand our tools, the more we are beholden to them. The more we imagine our tools as transparent or invisible, the less able we are to take ownership of them. It is essential that we consider our tools carefully and critically—that we empty all our LEGOs onto the table and sift through them before we start building. Some tools are decidedly less innocuous than others. And some tools can never be hacked to good use. Remote proctoring tools can’t ensure that students will not cheat. Turnitin won’t make students better writers. The LMS can’t ensure that students will learn. All will, however, ensure that students feel more thoroughly policed. All will ensure that students (and teachers) are more compliant.
Ultimately, the future of education is humans not tools, and our efforts at hacking, forking, and remixing education should all be aimed at making and guarding space for students and teachers. If there is a better sort of mechanism that we need for the work of digital pedagogy, it is a machine, an algorithm, a platform tuned not for delivering and assessing content, but for helping all of us listen better to students. But we can’t get to a place of listening to students if they don’t show up to the conversation because we’ve already excluded their voice in advance by creating environments hostile to them and their work.
Critical Pedagogy, Organic Writing, and the Changing Nature of ScholarshipJesse Stommel
Using critical pedagogy as the foundation for their work in hybrid and fully-digital environments, Jesse Stommel (Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at University of Wisconsin-Madison; @Jessifer) and Pete Rorabaugh (Assistant Professor of English in the English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts Department at Southern Polytechnic State University; @allistelling) explore how academic writing and scholarship are changing from within and without. Pete discusses the practice of Organic Writing and how the affordances of digital environments allow us to explore how to teach writing as a creative and critical thinking process. Jesse focuses on the ways that new-form multimodal scholarship upsets the distinction between academic writing and public outreach.
Zombie Pedagogies: Embodied Learning in the Digital AgeJesse Stommel
Video Preview: http://bit.ly/digitalhuman
There is no one pedagogical strategy that works for all students and teachers or in all situations. The space of the classroom is shifting and dynamic, so we need our pedagogies to proliferate, not to congeal. Like Mary Shelley’s monster in Frankenstein, who is also an amalgam, we are being (re)made online, as our flesh is reduced to a husk, a remainder. We crave, and are nostalgic for, a visceral experience of the body, and our increasing cultural interest in the zombie is part and parcel of this. The zombie is not the villain in this scenario but a metaphorical antidote to the erosion of our physicality. As our reliance on technology increases, the zombie asks us to discover in the digital what remains voraciously humane. As pedagogical beasts, zombies advance slowly and deliberately. They limp, stumble, moan, and clamor as they surge forth, all in imperfect unison, a cacophony of sounds, always walking, always reaching. And so a hybrid digital pedagogy demands we create more collaborative and less hierarchical spaces for learning -- lest we use computers to replicate the vestigial structures of industrial-era education.
Rewriting the syllabus: Examining New Hybrid and Online PedagogiesJesse Stommel
We have to carefully build our classroom and educational space online before we start populating it, lest text, hierarchical menus, and pop-up windows be confused with interactivity and community.
Teachers stand to learn more from students about online learning than we could ever teach. Many students come to an online or hybrid class knowing very well how to learn online. It’s often our failure to know as well how to learn online that leads to many of the design mistakes in this generation of online courses.
Digital Pedagogy is about Breaking Stuff: Toward a Critical Digital Humanitie...Jesse Stommel
Pedagogy is not just a delivery device for the digital humanities. It should be at the core of what the digital humanities is as an academic discipline.
New-form Scholarship and the Public digital humanitiesJesse Stommel
New-form scholarship reconsiders citation and peer-review, while re-imagining the containers and audiences for academic work. Digital platforms, like Twitter, open-access journals, and blogs offer both limitations and possibilities. The public digital humanities is built around networked learning communities, not repositories for content, and its scholarly product is a conversation, one that engages a broad public while blurring the distinction between research, teaching, service, and outreach. In short, the public digital humanities starts with humans, not technologies or tools.
Graduate Training in 21st Century PedagogyJesse Stommel
If teaching, or related activity, is 40 – 90% of most full-time faculty jobs in higher ed., pedagogical study should constitute at least 40% of the work graduate students do toward a graduate degree.
Stand and Unfold Yourself: MOOCs, Networked Learning, and the Digital HumanitiesJesse Stommel
I have Shakespeare tattooed on my forearms. On my right arm is the first line from Hamlet in binary code. On my left arm is the latter half of the second line of Hamlet in hexadecimal code.
The first line of the play, “Who’s there?,” does several things: quite literally, the speaker asks the listener on stage to identify herself; when performed, the line is also spoken to the off-stage or off-screen audience, calling attention to their simultaneous presence both within and outside the world of Shakespeare’s play; finally, it is a deeper question from Shakespeare about the nature of being. The question takes on a new and different set of potential meanings when it is read on the screen of a computer, iPad, Kindle, or smart phone, forcing contemporary readers of Shakespeare to question the nature of their own humanity in the face of rapid technological changes. Just as who we are as humans could be contained and expressed in the language of a theatrical play, now we must also consider who we become when our selves are reduced to the flurry of 1s and 0s that constitute us in our Facebook profiles, Tweets, and text messages. No matter which medium or device we use to encounter a play like Hamlet, no matter what self we bring to the encounter, Shakespeare continues to ask these questions of us, continues to ask who we are, what we see, and how we know.
Digital Humanities and the Future of Scholarship: Exclusivity, Disruption, an...Jesse Stommel
A Presentation by Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris for the Digital Currents initiative at University of Michigan.
Where DH grew out of positions of deep and necessary inquiry — especially in that its early advocates had to form communities of practice beyond the pale of traditional academic communities — today that inquiry has eroded into gratuitous and massively-funded career-building projects.
It’s important to know what open educational resources are and how we might use them. But it’s just as important to pause and take stock — to think carefully about when and why we might have students working openly on the web. This presentation focuses on the ethical and pedagogical considerations in having students using open resources but also on learning in public, doing public work, and engaging with open learning communities.
If Freire Made a MOOC: Open Education and Critical Digital PedagogyJesse Stommel
Ceding authority is an active endeavor. Paulo Freire writes in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, "A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education." The pedagogical value in openness is that it can create dialogue by increasing access and bringing together at once disparate learning spaces. A presentation at OpenEd 2014 by Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris
Learning is Not a Mechanism: Assessment, Student Agency, and Digital SpacesJesse Stommel
An objective and portable system for grading students was created so that systematized schooling could scale. And we’ve designed technological tools in the 20th and 21st Centuries that have allowed us to scale even further. Toward mass-processing and away from subjectivity, human relationships, and care.
Video at: http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/announcements/digital-pedagogy-lab-key-moments/
Digital Pedagogy Lab 2015 Institute Keynote
Amy Collier and Jesse Stommel
Far too much of education revels in knowing rather than not knowing. Sitting fastidiously in a place of not knowing is one of the hardest, most rigorous, parts of learning. But this is rigor of a different color. Learning is not something we can script in advance. Syllabi should be living documents, co-created with students. Full of possible paths. Not a barrel of predetermined outcomes, carefully crafted to be specific, measurable, loved by our accrediting bodies. Outcomes, and rubrics or assessments we design, should be wild-eyed and tentative. Assessment as an act of agency, a learning activity in and of itself not something delivered ex post facto by an external authority.
The precipitate shift to remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic came with no reliable best practices. Finding themselves suddenly distant, learners and teachers had few choices outside of improvisation. A profound lack of literacy in digital pedagogies created a crisis that affected not only the curriculum, but the community of the classroom. The natural synergy of being together in a room abruptly became an unnatural shift to turning mics and cameras on and off in the framework of a video conference. Many have supposed that out of this crisis might grow a new educational approach or institution—one that might support faculty and staff to advance educational equity, and move away from the all too common one-size-fits-all approach of online learning. To affect this transformation, we must consider a critical digital pedagogy, one that integrates digital literacies with equitable practices to create meaningful learning on both sides of the screen.
Critical instructional design moves toward realizing the possibility for learning that blends a new form of rigor with agency through a practice of inquiry, empathy, and emergence.
The digital humanities is as much about reading humanities texts with digital tools as it is about using human tools to read digital text. We are better users of technology when we are thinking critically about the nature and effects of that technology. What we must do is work to encourage students and ourselves to think critically about new tools (and, more importantly, the tools we already use). Far too much work in educational technology starts with tools, when what we need to start with is humans.
Digital pedagogy is here; it’s just unevenly distributed--at least in the world of colleges and universities. What would higher education look like if we designed not only individual learning experiences but also an entire curriculum to mirror and prepare students for life and work in a globally networked world? How could the convergence of new digital scholarly tools and methodologies, new delivery mediums, and digitally networked culture transform higher education? This session will situate the development of digital pedagogy in the current discourse about higher education--including calls for quality, completion, jobs, and access--offer a vision for transformative digital pedagogy, suggest both barriers to and strategies for achieving that vision, and engage participants in a thought experiment to design an integrated curriculum articulated by digital pedagogy.
Critical digital pedagogy after covid 19 - reflections on teaching thtrough t...Sean Michael Morris
On 16 February 2021, I was invited to keynote "Scaffolding a Transformative Transition to Distance and Online Learning," a virtual symposia at the University of Ottawa.
This workshop offers participants a hands-on introduction to the concepts and practices of digital pedagogy. We discuss the intersections between “online,” “hybrid,” and “digital” with regards to learning approaches and environments. And we launch into an exploration of assignment design, creative assessment, and digital tools. This workshop is suitable for educators--teachers, librarians, instructional designers, technologists, and others--at all levels who have an interest in exploring new techniques for digital teaching and learning.
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf writes, "To sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery."
Ultimately, the future of education is humans not tools, and our efforts at hacking, forking, and remixing education should all be aimed at making and guarding space for students and teachers. If there is a better sort of mechanism that we need for the work of teaching, it is a machine, an algorithm, a platform tuned not for delivering and assessing content, but for helping all of us listen better to students. But we can’t get to a place of listening to students if they don’t show up to the conversation because we’ve already excluded their voice in advance by creating environments hostile to them and their work.
Any authority within the space of the classroom must be aimed at fostering agency in all the members of our community.
Critical Pedagogy, Civil Disobedience, and EdtechJesse Stommel
The majority of development in edtech is driven by the bureaucratic traditions of education more than the pedagogical ones.
If we object to the increasing standardization of education, how and where do we build sites of resistance? What strategies can we employ to guard ourselves and our students? What systems of privilege must we first dismantle?
Against Scaffolding: Radical Openness and Critical Digital PedagogyJesse Stommel
Keynote at WILU2019, The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use
Scaffolding can create points of entry and access but can also reduce the complexity of learning to its detriment. And too often we build learning environments in advance of students arriving upon the scene. We design syllabi, assemble content, predetermine outcomes, and craft assessments before having met our students. We reduce students to data. And learning to input and output.
Radical openness isn't a bureaucratic gesture, isn't linear, offers infinite points of entry. It has to be rooted in a willingness to sit with discomfort. Radical openness demands educational institutions be spaces for relationships and dialogue. bell hooks writes, “for me this place of radical openness is a margin—a profound edge. Locating oneself there is difficult yet necessary. It is not a 'safe' place. One is always at risk. One needs a community of resistance.” For hooks, the risks we take are personal, professional, political. When she says that “radical openness is a margin,” she suggests it is a place of emergent outcomes, a place of friction, a place of critical thinking.
Radical Openness: the Work of Critical Digital PedagogyJesse Stommel
Radical openness demands the classroom be a space for relationships and dialogue. Far too many tools we’ve built for teaching are designed to make grading students convenient—or designed to facilitate the systematic observation of teachers by administrators.
Scaffolding can create points of entry and access but can also reduce the complexity of learning to its detriment. And too often we build learning environments in advance of students arriving upon the scene. We design syllabi, predetermine outcomes, and craft rubrics before having met the students. We reduce students to data.
5 things we can do to create more inclusive spaces in education:
1) Recognize students are not an undifferentiated mass.
2) For education to be innovative, at this particular moment, we don’t need to invest in technology. We need to invest in teachers.
3) Staff, administrators, and faculty need to come together, across institutional hierarchies, for inclusivity efforts to work. At many institutions, a faculty/staff divide is one of the first barriers that needs to be overcome.
4) The path toward inclusivity starts with small, human acts:
* Walk campus to assess the accessibility of common spaces and classrooms. For example, an accessible desk in every classroom doesn’t do much good if students can’t get to that desk because the rooms are overcrowded.
* Invite students to share pronouns, model this behavior, but don’t expect it of every student.
* Make sure there is an easy and advertised process for students, faculty, and staff to change their names within institutional systems. Make sure chosen names are what appear on course rosters.
* Regularly invite the campus community into hard conversations about inclusivity. For example, a frank discussion of race and gender bias in grading and course evaluations.
5) Stop having conversations about the future of education without students in the room.
To queer Open is to imagine it as an emergent space always in process. Open Education is not confirmed by courses, platforms, syllabi, hierarchies, but exactly resists those containers, imagining a space for marginalized representation -- a space that recognizes our unique embodied contexts and offers opportunities for liberation from them.
My keynote from Digital Pedagogy Lab Vancouver.
An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital PedagogyJesse Stommel
Critical Pedagogy is as much a political approach as it is an educative one, a social justice movement first, and an educational movement second. Digital technologies have values coded into them in advance. Many tools are good only insofar as they are used. Tools and platforms that do dictate too strongly how we might use them, or ones that remove our agency by covertly reducing us and our work to commodified data, should be rooted out by a Critical Digital Pedagogy.
Navigating the Marvellous: Openness in Education - #altc 2014Catherine Cronin
Keynote presentation for #ALTC 2014. A fuller link to video & a summary of the keynote is here: http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/navigating-marvellous/
Abstract: Inspired by a Seamus Heaney poem (Lightenings viii), I’ll explore “navigating the marvellous”, the challenge of embracing open practices, of being open, in higher education, from the perspective of educators and students, citizens and policy makers. To be in higher education is to learn in two worlds: the open world of informal learning and networked connections, and the predominantly closed world of the institution. As higher education moves slowly, warily, and unevenly towards openness, students deal daily with the dissonance between these two worlds; navigating their own paths between them, and developing different skills, practices, and identities in the various learning spaces which they visit and inhabit. Educators also make daily choices about the extent to which they teach, share their work, and interact, with students and others, in bounded and open spaces. How might we construct and navigate Third Spaces of learning, not formal or informal but combined spaces where connections are made between students and educators (across all sectors), scholars, thinkers, and citizens — and where a range of identities and literacy practices are welcomed? And if, as Joi Ito has said, openness is a survival trait for the future, how do we facilitate this process of “opening education”? The task is one not just of changing practices but of culture change; we can learn much from other movements for justice, equality and social change.
Digital Humanities and the Future of Scholarship: Exclusivity, Disruption, an...Jesse Stommel
A Presentation by Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris for the Digital Currents initiative at University of Michigan.
Where DH grew out of positions of deep and necessary inquiry — especially in that its early advocates had to form communities of practice beyond the pale of traditional academic communities — today that inquiry has eroded into gratuitous and massively-funded career-building projects.
It’s important to know what open educational resources are and how we might use them. But it’s just as important to pause and take stock — to think carefully about when and why we might have students working openly on the web. This presentation focuses on the ethical and pedagogical considerations in having students using open resources but also on learning in public, doing public work, and engaging with open learning communities.
If Freire Made a MOOC: Open Education and Critical Digital PedagogyJesse Stommel
Ceding authority is an active endeavor. Paulo Freire writes in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, "A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education." The pedagogical value in openness is that it can create dialogue by increasing access and bringing together at once disparate learning spaces. A presentation at OpenEd 2014 by Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris
Learning is Not a Mechanism: Assessment, Student Agency, and Digital SpacesJesse Stommel
An objective and portable system for grading students was created so that systematized schooling could scale. And we’ve designed technological tools in the 20th and 21st Centuries that have allowed us to scale even further. Toward mass-processing and away from subjectivity, human relationships, and care.
Video at: http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/announcements/digital-pedagogy-lab-key-moments/
Digital Pedagogy Lab 2015 Institute Keynote
Amy Collier and Jesse Stommel
Far too much of education revels in knowing rather than not knowing. Sitting fastidiously in a place of not knowing is one of the hardest, most rigorous, parts of learning. But this is rigor of a different color. Learning is not something we can script in advance. Syllabi should be living documents, co-created with students. Full of possible paths. Not a barrel of predetermined outcomes, carefully crafted to be specific, measurable, loved by our accrediting bodies. Outcomes, and rubrics or assessments we design, should be wild-eyed and tentative. Assessment as an act of agency, a learning activity in and of itself not something delivered ex post facto by an external authority.
The precipitate shift to remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic came with no reliable best practices. Finding themselves suddenly distant, learners and teachers had few choices outside of improvisation. A profound lack of literacy in digital pedagogies created a crisis that affected not only the curriculum, but the community of the classroom. The natural synergy of being together in a room abruptly became an unnatural shift to turning mics and cameras on and off in the framework of a video conference. Many have supposed that out of this crisis might grow a new educational approach or institution—one that might support faculty and staff to advance educational equity, and move away from the all too common one-size-fits-all approach of online learning. To affect this transformation, we must consider a critical digital pedagogy, one that integrates digital literacies with equitable practices to create meaningful learning on both sides of the screen.
Critical instructional design moves toward realizing the possibility for learning that blends a new form of rigor with agency through a practice of inquiry, empathy, and emergence.
The digital humanities is as much about reading humanities texts with digital tools as it is about using human tools to read digital text. We are better users of technology when we are thinking critically about the nature and effects of that technology. What we must do is work to encourage students and ourselves to think critically about new tools (and, more importantly, the tools we already use). Far too much work in educational technology starts with tools, when what we need to start with is humans.
Digital pedagogy is here; it’s just unevenly distributed--at least in the world of colleges and universities. What would higher education look like if we designed not only individual learning experiences but also an entire curriculum to mirror and prepare students for life and work in a globally networked world? How could the convergence of new digital scholarly tools and methodologies, new delivery mediums, and digitally networked culture transform higher education? This session will situate the development of digital pedagogy in the current discourse about higher education--including calls for quality, completion, jobs, and access--offer a vision for transformative digital pedagogy, suggest both barriers to and strategies for achieving that vision, and engage participants in a thought experiment to design an integrated curriculum articulated by digital pedagogy.
Critical digital pedagogy after covid 19 - reflections on teaching thtrough t...Sean Michael Morris
On 16 February 2021, I was invited to keynote "Scaffolding a Transformative Transition to Distance and Online Learning," a virtual symposia at the University of Ottawa.
This workshop offers participants a hands-on introduction to the concepts and practices of digital pedagogy. We discuss the intersections between “online,” “hybrid,” and “digital” with regards to learning approaches and environments. And we launch into an exploration of assignment design, creative assessment, and digital tools. This workshop is suitable for educators--teachers, librarians, instructional designers, technologists, and others--at all levels who have an interest in exploring new techniques for digital teaching and learning.
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf writes, "To sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery."
Ultimately, the future of education is humans not tools, and our efforts at hacking, forking, and remixing education should all be aimed at making and guarding space for students and teachers. If there is a better sort of mechanism that we need for the work of teaching, it is a machine, an algorithm, a platform tuned not for delivering and assessing content, but for helping all of us listen better to students. But we can’t get to a place of listening to students if they don’t show up to the conversation because we’ve already excluded their voice in advance by creating environments hostile to them and their work.
Any authority within the space of the classroom must be aimed at fostering agency in all the members of our community.
Critical Pedagogy, Civil Disobedience, and EdtechJesse Stommel
The majority of development in edtech is driven by the bureaucratic traditions of education more than the pedagogical ones.
If we object to the increasing standardization of education, how and where do we build sites of resistance? What strategies can we employ to guard ourselves and our students? What systems of privilege must we first dismantle?
Against Scaffolding: Radical Openness and Critical Digital PedagogyJesse Stommel
Keynote at WILU2019, The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use
Scaffolding can create points of entry and access but can also reduce the complexity of learning to its detriment. And too often we build learning environments in advance of students arriving upon the scene. We design syllabi, assemble content, predetermine outcomes, and craft assessments before having met our students. We reduce students to data. And learning to input and output.
Radical openness isn't a bureaucratic gesture, isn't linear, offers infinite points of entry. It has to be rooted in a willingness to sit with discomfort. Radical openness demands educational institutions be spaces for relationships and dialogue. bell hooks writes, “for me this place of radical openness is a margin—a profound edge. Locating oneself there is difficult yet necessary. It is not a 'safe' place. One is always at risk. One needs a community of resistance.” For hooks, the risks we take are personal, professional, political. When she says that “radical openness is a margin,” she suggests it is a place of emergent outcomes, a place of friction, a place of critical thinking.
Radical Openness: the Work of Critical Digital PedagogyJesse Stommel
Radical openness demands the classroom be a space for relationships and dialogue. Far too many tools we’ve built for teaching are designed to make grading students convenient—or designed to facilitate the systematic observation of teachers by administrators.
Scaffolding can create points of entry and access but can also reduce the complexity of learning to its detriment. And too often we build learning environments in advance of students arriving upon the scene. We design syllabi, predetermine outcomes, and craft rubrics before having met the students. We reduce students to data.
5 things we can do to create more inclusive spaces in education:
1) Recognize students are not an undifferentiated mass.
2) For education to be innovative, at this particular moment, we don’t need to invest in technology. We need to invest in teachers.
3) Staff, administrators, and faculty need to come together, across institutional hierarchies, for inclusivity efforts to work. At many institutions, a faculty/staff divide is one of the first barriers that needs to be overcome.
4) The path toward inclusivity starts with small, human acts:
* Walk campus to assess the accessibility of common spaces and classrooms. For example, an accessible desk in every classroom doesn’t do much good if students can’t get to that desk because the rooms are overcrowded.
* Invite students to share pronouns, model this behavior, but don’t expect it of every student.
* Make sure there is an easy and advertised process for students, faculty, and staff to change their names within institutional systems. Make sure chosen names are what appear on course rosters.
* Regularly invite the campus community into hard conversations about inclusivity. For example, a frank discussion of race and gender bias in grading and course evaluations.
5) Stop having conversations about the future of education without students in the room.
To queer Open is to imagine it as an emergent space always in process. Open Education is not confirmed by courses, platforms, syllabi, hierarchies, but exactly resists those containers, imagining a space for marginalized representation -- a space that recognizes our unique embodied contexts and offers opportunities for liberation from them.
My keynote from Digital Pedagogy Lab Vancouver.
An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital PedagogyJesse Stommel
Critical Pedagogy is as much a political approach as it is an educative one, a social justice movement first, and an educational movement second. Digital technologies have values coded into them in advance. Many tools are good only insofar as they are used. Tools and platforms that do dictate too strongly how we might use them, or ones that remove our agency by covertly reducing us and our work to commodified data, should be rooted out by a Critical Digital Pedagogy.
Navigating the Marvellous: Openness in Education - #altc 2014Catherine Cronin
Keynote presentation for #ALTC 2014. A fuller link to video & a summary of the keynote is here: http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/navigating-marvellous/
Abstract: Inspired by a Seamus Heaney poem (Lightenings viii), I’ll explore “navigating the marvellous”, the challenge of embracing open practices, of being open, in higher education, from the perspective of educators and students, citizens and policy makers. To be in higher education is to learn in two worlds: the open world of informal learning and networked connections, and the predominantly closed world of the institution. As higher education moves slowly, warily, and unevenly towards openness, students deal daily with the dissonance between these two worlds; navigating their own paths between them, and developing different skills, practices, and identities in the various learning spaces which they visit and inhabit. Educators also make daily choices about the extent to which they teach, share their work, and interact, with students and others, in bounded and open spaces. How might we construct and navigate Third Spaces of learning, not formal or informal but combined spaces where connections are made between students and educators (across all sectors), scholars, thinkers, and citizens — and where a range of identities and literacy practices are welcomed? And if, as Joi Ito has said, openness is a survival trait for the future, how do we facilitate this process of “opening education”? The task is one not just of changing practices but of culture change; we can learn much from other movements for justice, equality and social change.
A joint keynote with Sean Michael Morris at the Dream 2019 conference in Long Beach, California.
It is urgent we have teachers, it is urgent we employ them, pay them, support them with adequate resources; but it is also urgency which defines the project of teaching. In a political climate increasingly defined by its obstinacy, anti-intellectualism, and deflection of fact and care; in a society still divided across lines of race, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality, income, ability, and privilege, teaching has an important (urgent) role to play.
Open Pedagogy: Building Compassionate Spaces for Online LearningJesse Stommel
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks writes, “for me this place of radical openness is a margin—a profound edge. Locating oneself there is difficult yet necessary. It is not a ‘safe’ place. One is always at risk. One needs a community of resistance.” For hooks, the risks we take are personal, professional, political. When she says that “radical openness is a margin,” she suggests it is a place of uncertainty, a place of friction, a place of critical thinking. This is not an Open pedagogy neatly defined and delimited.
Open pedagogy pushes on the notion of education as content delivery in favor of education as community and dialogue. The work is less crudely didactic, more ephemeral. This can be especially true in online teaching and learning, where presence is signaled in very different ways and risk is felt differently. When we ask students to work openly on the Web, it’s critical that we make space for them to critically interrogate digital culture and to contribute to knowledge on the Web. As online educators and designers, we must also make space for students to teach us about working on the Web, about learning, about what education can be.
[Plenary at Open SUNY Summit, March 2018]
Intentionally Disruptive: Developing & Delivering a Critical Information Lite...Cristina Colquhoun
This presentation was presented at the OK-ACRL 2017 Annual Conference on Friday, 11/10/17. It details the course that was developed by the Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach team of the Edmon Low Library at Oklahoma State University. The course incorporates tenants of critical pedagogy and critical librarianship and seeks to assist students in using their information skills for good. Course topics include web literacy, fake news, fact-checking, filter bubble, etc.
Developing Metaliterate Citizens: Designing and Delivering Enhanced Global Le...Tom Mackey
Presented at the Conference on Learning Information Literacy across the Globe in Frankfurt am Main, Germany 10th of May 2019. Metaliteracy is examined as an empowering pedagogical framework that advances learners as informed consumers and original producers of information.
Students and Open Education: From the What to the How and Why (and When Not)Christina Hendricks
A keynote given at the eCampus Ontario Technology-Enhanced Seminar and Showcase 2017. https://tess17.ecampusontario.ca/home
Slides are available in an editable (PPTX) format at the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/fcz5x/
Supplementary resource for a discussion based session on critical digital pedagogy. I used some of these slides as aids for a discussion activity, where we discussed some quotes from suggested readings. I added some additional slides on the "banking model of education" based on the feedback I received.
If bell hook made an LMS: Grades, Radical Openness, and Domain of One's OwnJesse Stommel
This is the text of the presentation I gave at the Domains17 conference in Oklahoma City, OK on June 5, 2017. The learning management system is a red herring, a symptom of a much larger beast that has its teeth on education: the rude quantification of learning, the reduction of teaching to widgets and students to data points.
A link to the full text of the presentation: http://jessestommel.com/if-bell-hooks-made-an-lms-grades-radical-openness-and-domain-of-ones-own/
Designing for Care: Inclusive Pedagogies for Online LearningJesse Stommel
We need to be thinking about how we respond in the moment to this emergent crisis, but it’s just as important that we talk about sustainable ways forward. What we are facing right now will have an effect on education that lasts years (or longer), and it’s exposing inequities and systemic injustices that many students have faced all along.
Virtual Learning Communities: 6 Theses for Creating a Sense of Belonging OnlineJesse Stommel
There is no one-size-fits-all set of best practices for building a learning community, whether on-ground or online. We have to start by finding out who are students are, what they need to be successful, and how our institutional mission does (and sometimes doesn’t) align with our practices.
Can we imagine assessment mechanisms that encourage discovery, ones not designed for assessing learning but designed for learning through assessment? Much of our work in education resists being formulated as neat and tidy outcomes, and yet most assessment takes the complexity of human interaction within a learning environment and makes it “machine readable.” When learning is the goal, space should be left for wonder and experimentation.
A keynote based on two blog posts:
Why I Don't Grade: https://www.jessestommel.com/why-i-dont-grade/
How to Ungrade: https://www.jessestommel.com/how-to-ungrade/
The first mistake of many online programs is that they try to replicate something we do in face-to-face classes, mapping the (sometimes pedagogically-sound, sometimes bizarre) traditions of on-ground institutions onto digital space.
We need to recognize that online learning uses a different platform, builds community in different ways, demands different pedagogies, has a different economy, functions at different scales, and requires different choices regarding curriculum than does on-ground education. Even where the same goal is desired, very different methods must be used to reach that goal.
Centering Teaching: the Human Work of Higher EducationJesse Stommel
Most higher education teaching practices are unexamined, because teachers are rarely given space to think critically about pedagogy. We need departments of higher education pedagogy (or interdisciplinary clusters of scholars focused on higher education pedagogy) at every school offering graduate degrees aimed at preparing future faculty.
12 steps for Designing an Assignment with Emergent OutcomesJesse Stommel
Pedagogy is a recursive process, a constant interplay between building and analyzing what we’ve built -- between teaching and meta-level reflection on our own process.
Massive Learning, Massive Play: Constructing Identity and Community through T...Jesse Stommel
A presentation from Jesse Stommel (@jessifer), Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher), and (@adamheid). In MMOGs 3D graphics-rendered avatars construct the player behind the screen, collaborating with others through shared quests and group responsibilities. In Twitter, identity emerges through dialogue, a networked concoction of text, videos, and graphics. Yet, in today’s MOOCs, identity is almost nonexistent, hidden under layers of hypertexts and tucked deep in forums, or worse, as an enrollment number.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
A Scholarship of Generosity: a Hybrid Pedagogy Mixtape
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A Scholarship of Generosity
A Hybrid Pedagogy Mixtape
2. “Play constitutes a new form of critical inquiry.”
~ Adeline Koh,The Political Power of Play
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3. “At this point, MOOCs are all untapped potential, mostly misunderstood
and only potentially gangrenous.”
~ Jesse Stommel,The March of the MOOCs: Monstrous Open Online Courses
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4. “Asynchronous learning promotes deeper reflection...”
~ Maha Bali and Bard Meier,An Affinity for Asynchronous Learning
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6. “What does it mean ... to engage in professional practices whose end is, at
least in part, to ‘bend,’ ‘deform,’ or even ‘break’ the law?”
~ Robin Wharton, Bend Until It Breaks: Digital Humanities and Resistance
Photo by Praline3001
7. “To teach as myself, I must let my students see who I am.”
~ Chris Friend, Finding MyVoice as a Minority Teacher
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9. “As educators, we must do more than expect critical engagement from
our students — we must model it in our efforts to change, modify, and
adopt new learning practices.”
~ Adam Heidebrink, Cracking Open the Curriculum
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10. “New digital tools available to students have flung open the doors to
creativity, imagination, and student-directed learning.”
~ Jonan Donaldson,The Maker Movement and the Rebirth of Constructionism
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11. “If we scapegoat MOOCs for all the troubles in higher
education, we’ll be left with no solutions, no progress, no
innovation, and no change in the status quo...”
~ Cathy N. Davidson, 10 Things I’ve Learned (So Far) from Making a Meta-MOOC
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13. “To listen for voices that have something to say, but which may not find
purchase in traditional academic venues.”
~ Sean Michael Morris, Collaborative Peer Review: Gathering the Academy’s Orphans
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14. “Why can’t I get equal pay for equal labor? And why is silence the norm?”
~ Tiffany Kraft,Adjunctification: Living in the Margins of Academe
Photo by Hamed Saber
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16. “The PLN consists of relationships between individuals where the goal is
enhancement of mutual learning.”
~ Alison Seaman, Personal Learning Networks: Knowledge Sharing as Democracy
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17. “Scholarship is, by its nature, open source.”
~ Kris Shaffer, Open-source Scholarship
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19. “The commitment to learners, to their exploration, their community,
their authentic engagement, and their ultimate agency and
empowerment, governs our work.”
~ Pete Rorabaugh, Occupy the Digital: Critical Pedagogy and New Media
Photo by Bob Jagendorf
20. “In digital space, everything we do is networked. Real thinking doesn’t
(and can’t) happen in a vacuum.”
~ Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel,The Four NobleVirtues of Digital Media Citation
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22. “What is the place for a student in a discussion about learning in
the digital landscape?”
~ Matthew David Morris,A Letter from a Hybrid Student
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23. “There’s nothing wrong with Blackboard, except in the way that
there’s something wrong with all of it.”
~ Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel, Hacking the Screwdriver: Instructure’s Canvas
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25. “Essays quake and tremble at the digital.They weep in awe and
fascination.And they throw themselves into the abyss.”
~ Sean Michael Morris, Digital Writing Uprising:Third-order Thinking in the Digital Humanities
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26. “My academic identity most easily fits into a digital humanities
notion of technology-infused writing, publishing, and pedagogy.”
~ Cheryl Ball, Editorial Pedagogy, pt. 1:A Professional Philosophy
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28. “The openness of the internet is its most radical and pedagogically
viable feature.”
~ Jesse Stommel, Online Learning: a Manifesto
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29. “I’m often the one in a MOOC saying ‘C’mon folks, this is a different social
contract! We can’t expect the teacher to be at the centre of everything!’”
~ Bonnie Stewart, How NOT to Teach Online:A Story in Two Parts
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31. “The narrative that education and technology have only recently
intersected ignores decades of products and practices.”
~ Audrey Watters,The Early Days ofVideotaped Lectures
Photo by Zsolt Halasi