Jun 2012
#digped Storify: "Hackulty" Meetings and the Cult of Pedagogy
June 29, 2012 | Filed in: #digped
by Sean Michael Morris
Hybrid Pedagogy recently hosted a Twitter discussion focused on the relationship between pedagogy and technology, and the relationship between teachers and technologists. We set out with the intention of mining the relationships for possibilities, potentials, but also for weaknesses and shortcomings. At the center of our conversation sat the LMS (Learning Management System), the bane and boon of online and hybrid teaching. For many, the LMS is an unusable educational tool, while for others it is a technology ripe for the hacking. But some technologists believe the LMS is a work in progress, and may well be the future of educational technology.
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Hybrid Pedagogy recently hosted a Twitter discussion focused on the relationship between pedagogy and technology, and the relationship between teachers and technologists. We set out with the intention of mining the relationships for possibilities, potentials, but also for weaknesses and shortcomings. At the center of our conversation sat the LMS (Learning Management System), the bane and boon of online and hybrid teaching. For many, the LMS is an unusable educational tool, while for others it is a technology ripe for the hacking. But some technologists believe the LMS is a work in progress, and may well be the future of educational technology.
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Organic Writing and Digital Media: Seeds and Organs
June 20, 2012 | Filed in: Literacies
by Pete Rorabaugh
The act of writing is organic and generative. Ironically, this biological approach to writing is strengthened by digital environments that allow students and teachers to cultivate better compositions. Composing is a demonstration of thinking, and in any hybrid classroom, students should be able to a) see this thinking modeled and b) practice it themselves. Digital environments maximize the potential for organic writing in three distinct ways: they rebuild “audience,” expose the organic layers of a composition, and invite outside participation in key stages along the way.
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The act of writing is organic and generative. Ironically, this biological approach to writing is strengthened by digital environments that allow students and teachers to cultivate better compositions. Composing is a demonstration of thinking, and in any hybrid classroom, students should be able to a) see this thinking modeled and b) practice it themselves. Digital environments maximize the potential for organic writing in three distinct ways: they rebuild “audience,” expose the organic layers of a composition, and invite outside participation in key stages along the way.
Read More...Hacking the Marriage of Teaching and Technology: a #digped Discussion
June 19, 2012 | Filed in: #digped
by Sean Michael Morris
This Friday, June 22 from 1:00 - 2:00pm EST (10:00 - 11:00am PST), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion group under the hashtag #digped on the relationship between pedagogy and technology. Functionality is increasingly important in an educational world that includes hybrid classes, MOOCs, and more; but is functionality pedagogy? Is pedagogy driving functionality, or is it the other way around? The discussion will circulate around ideas raised in the Hybrid Pedagogy article, “Hacking the Screwdriver: Instructure’s Canvas and the Future of the LMS”, as well as ideas posed by the articles cited below.
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This Friday, June 22 from 1:00 - 2:00pm EST (10:00 - 11:00am PST), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion group under the hashtag #digped on the relationship between pedagogy and technology. Functionality is increasingly important in an educational world that includes hybrid classes, MOOCs, and more; but is functionality pedagogy? Is pedagogy driving functionality, or is it the other way around? The discussion will circulate around ideas raised in the Hybrid Pedagogy article, “Hacking the Screwdriver: Instructure’s Canvas and the Future of the LMS”, as well as ideas posed by the articles cited below.
Read More...Hacking the Screwdriver: Instructure’s Canvas and the Future of the LMS
June 15, 2012 | Filed in: Tools
by Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel
There’s nothing wrong with Blackboard, except in the way that there’s something wrong with all of it. At InstructureCon 2012, we noticed a lot of hate being directed at Blackboard, a bit of indifference about Moodle, and cheer after cheer offered up for Canvas, the learning management system (LMS) created by Instructure. That there was enthusiasm for Canvas at a Canvas-based event wasn’t unexpected; however, it spurred Jesse and I to dive deeper into this LMS to see what it’s really about, and whether it’s as flexible and progressive a tool for education as Instructure says it is.
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There’s nothing wrong with Blackboard, except in the way that there’s something wrong with all of it. At InstructureCon 2012, we noticed a lot of hate being directed at Blackboard, a bit of indifference about Moodle, and cheer after cheer offered up for Canvas, the learning management system (LMS) created by Instructure. That there was enthusiasm for Canvas at a Canvas-based event wasn’t unexpected; however, it spurred Jesse and I to dive deeper into this LMS to see what it’s really about, and whether it’s as flexible and progressive a tool for education as Instructure says it is.
Read More...Hybridity, pt. 3: What Does Hybrid Pedagogy Do?
June 12, 2012 | Filed in: Critical Pedagogy
by Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel
Teaching is a practice. Good teaching is an engaged, reflective, and generous practice. Pedagogy is not just talking and thinking about teaching. Pedagogy is the place where philosophy and practice meet (aka “praxis”). It’s vibrant and embodied, meditative and productive. Good pedagogy takes both teaching and learning as its subjects.
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Teaching is a practice. Good teaching is an engaged, reflective, and generous practice. Pedagogy is not just talking and thinking about teaching. Pedagogy is the place where philosophy and practice meet (aka “praxis”). It’s vibrant and embodied, meditative and productive. Good pedagogy takes both teaching and learning as its subjects.
Read More...#digped Storify: Teaching Naked
June 10, 2012 | Filed in: #digped
by Sean Michael Morris
On Friday, June 8, Hybrid Pedagogy hosted a discussion on Twitter focused on the subject of "teaching naked" as presented in Paul Fyfe's article "Digital Pedagogy Unplugged". We thought it would be worthwhile to take a look at the ways in which all classrooms are necessarily both digital and analog, in-person and virtual. Inspired by the notion that we might be able to re-imagine digital pedagogy "without the potentially limiting factor of electronics," we set out to discuss what the truly hybrid classroom was made of.
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On Friday, June 8, Hybrid Pedagogy hosted a discussion on Twitter focused on the subject of "teaching naked" as presented in Paul Fyfe's article "Digital Pedagogy Unplugged". We thought it would be worthwhile to take a look at the ways in which all classrooms are necessarily both digital and analog, in-person and virtual. Inspired by the notion that we might be able to re-imagine digital pedagogy "without the potentially limiting factor of electronics," we set out to discuss what the truly hybrid classroom was made of.
Read More...Teaching in the Digital Tornado
June 06, 2012 | Filed in: Digital Pedagogy
by Sean Michael Morris
In preparing for the Teaching Naked #digped Twitter discussion on Friday, June 8, I reviewed what felt like a massive number of possible topics, discussable literature, and the broad face of educational technology. Out there on the Internet, something is happening that feels a lot like evolution, but which can also feel like survival of the fittest. One idea gives rise unto uncounted more ideas; one tool for organizing spawns a dozen new ways to communicate, and simultaneously a need for new organizational tools. It’s positively autocatalytic.
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In preparing for the Teaching Naked #digped Twitter discussion on Friday, June 8, I reviewed what felt like a massive number of possible topics, discussable literature, and the broad face of educational technology. Out there on the Internet, something is happening that feels a lot like evolution, but which can also feel like survival of the fittest. One idea gives rise unto uncounted more ideas; one tool for organizing spawns a dozen new ways to communicate, and simultaneously a need for new organizational tools. It’s positively autocatalytic.
Read More...Teaching Naked: a #digped Discussion
June 04, 2012 | Filed in: #digped
by Sean Michael Morris
This Friday, June 8 from 1:00 - 2:00pm EST (10:00 - 11:00am PST), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion group under the hashtag #digped on Paul Fyfe’s “Digital Pedagogy Unplugged,” an article which explores how technology can both support, and might prevent, teaching and learning. We encourage participants to read Fyfe’s article, but we hope to keep the discussion open enough to everyone.
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This Friday, June 8 from 1:00 - 2:00pm EST (10:00 - 11:00am PST), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion group under the hashtag #digped on Paul Fyfe’s “Digital Pedagogy Unplugged,” an article which explores how technology can both support, and might prevent, teaching and learning. We encourage participants to read Fyfe’s article, but we hope to keep the discussion open enough to everyone.
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