critical pedagogy 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?
critical pedagogy 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.
critical digital pedagogy 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.
critical pedagogy The Production of Tomorrow There are incontrovertible facts which should not be considered from inside the shelter of ideas, hypotheses. Poverty, racism, hunger, transphobia. There are incontrovertible facts which require action, not discussion.
critical pedagogy The Habitus of Critical Imagination It is urgent that we have teachers. It is urgent that we have teachers with great imaginations. It’s urgent that we have teachers who can see in their students the potential for something startling, something unlikely.
imagination Imagination as a Precision Tool for Change The project of critical pedagogy is not simply the project of improving education, or of learning, but rather the project of becoming more fully human.
critical pedagogy Wide-awakeness and Critical Imagination What happens when a student who loves to learn is told they are not qualified to to so?
critical pedagogy An Upsurge of Questioning and Critique: toward a Community of Critical Pedagogy Be kind. Pay attention. Tell stories. Invite stories. Show you care. Don’t be afraid of love. Close doors when they need to be closed. Keep doors open when they need to be kept open, even if keeping them open is hard on your heart.
critical pedagogy Adventures in Unveiling: Critical Pedagogy and Imagination Imagination is important to the project of critical pedagogy precisely because of the responsive nature of its practice. We must be able to think on our toes if education (of all kinds) is meant to be liberative.
kindness Coming Out; or, Why to Be Kind Agency isn’t about power. It is a resolution of power. Agency without kindness is just bullying.
critical pedagogy And so I am grateful too I will always keep an eye open for new voices, voices that education and academia might not take seriously for whatever reason, I will listen carefully to what they have to say and I will offer them whatever platform I may.
critical instructional design A Call for Critical Instructional Design Critical instructional design is an early, emerging attempt to get at some concrete methodologies for creating agentive spaces in online and hybrid learning environments.
critical pedagogy Hospitality and Agency Critical pedagogy demands a lot of us. It demands we walk away from our assumptions about how teaching and learning happen. It demands that we question the teaching we received. It demands we listen.
critical pedagogy On Presence, Video Lectures, and Critical Pedagogy Difference cannot become canon. Because canon means passing muster, and we cannot ask difference to pass muster. Rather than put marginalized folk under a microscope in order to understand their struggle or develop compassion for difference, might we not instead wreck the classroom with story?
critical instructional design Reading the LMS against the Backdrop of Critical Pedagogy, parts 1 and 2 There is an essential difference between the ‘science’ of education, positivism, evidence-based teaching, and behaviorism (which I see as coterminous within the LMS) and the ideas of education forwarded by critical pedagogy.
critical instructional design Saying No to Best Practices The worst best practice is to adhere to, or go searching for, best practices. Digital tools, strategies, and best practices are a red herring in digital learning. Learning always starts with people.
critical pedagogy Collegiality as Pedagogy In the really cheap academic seats, serial use of YouTube clips, movies, and “student-centered learning activities” will and does pass as course content … In slightly more affluent markets, something more
critical pedagogy Late Work An instructor comes to me with a quibble about late policies in his department’s composition courses. I’m feeling ornery and rushed when he e-mails, I’m feeling curious
