Cacophony: Open Ed, Digital Pedagogy Lab, and the Challenge of Education Conferences
We need to critically examine all of our assumptions about conferences. How they are run. Who leads them. What kind of learning should happen there?
Sean Michael Morris
After Babel: Designing for Community
There are countless brilliant students who need the opportunity of school.
Education is not a field for mediocre hopes and mediocre dreams
"Education lifts, inspires, changes lives, builds futures, starts careers, reveals new knowledge. It’s this profoundly odd and profoundly unlikely and profoundly beautiful endeavor that strikes at what humans do most naturally and best: learning."
Shame; or, a response to the writers of the anti-Stonewall open letter in the Times
Academic freedom should not bind us to our beliefs, but should free us to explore potential new futures, new cultural realities, and to join in a production of tomorrow.
To Go Far Enough
The predation of the edtech industry only works if we don’t lift our heads to see it, raise our hands to change it, stand in its way.
The (Critical) (Instructional) Design of Digital Pedagogy Lab
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.