COVID-19 - Sean Michael Morris

COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic altered the nature of education during 2020, and ongoingly into 2021. While the far-reaching impact of the pandemic is yet to be seen, a new focus on teaching through technology emerged. Alongside that focus on technology, many teachers, designers, and administrators turned toward humanizing pedagogies, like trauma-informed and critical digital pedagogy.

As we step forward, we must stand still: Critical digital pedagogy and the praxis of taking time

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As we step forward, we must stand still: Critical digital pedagogy and the praxis of taking time

We have come upon a watershed moment for digital education. As we climb our way out of the pandemic and the necessary turn to online and remote learning that resulted, we are faced with an opportunity: to remodel our digital pedagogies.

Best Practices after COVID

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Best Practices after COVID

The point of any best practice or set of best practices should be to support community, collaboration, and respect in any classroom—online, on campus, or somewhere in between.

Reflections on Teaching through the Screen

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Reflections on Teaching through the Screen

Critical pedagogy aims to deeply question our epistemological assumptions—about teaching, about education, about power, about expertise—and while this can be exhilarating, it is almost never a picnic.

Critical Digital Pedagogy after COVID-19

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Critical Digital Pedagogy after COVID-19

Behaviorism isn’t inclined to offer us any hope. It is not a visionary pedagogy, but a sedentary one. Critical pedagogy on the other hand, remind us that the future is possibility, that education is a practice of freedom.

We Rise and Fall Together: Assessment during COVID-19

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We Rise and Fall Together: Assessment during COVID-19

How we reimagine assessment when sick and dying dogs, sleepless nights, and cleaning up dog fur are as much a factor as whether or not a student did the reading or writing may be the most pressing question we face as educators.

Fostering Care and Community at a Distance

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Fostering Care and Community at a Distance

There’s no built-in function in any technology which can produce community. Nor can building community be done from the front of the room; it is not an exercise or a manoeuvre.

Love Letters and Pen Pals: Community through Correspondence

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Love Letters and Pen Pals: Community through Correspondence

There are myriad ways that teaching online can preserve the most cherished or favorite parts of classroom pedagogy. What is required is thinking past the screen, past the platform, and beyond the distance that separates teachers and students.