There’s a poster in my office on campus that means a lot to me — I’ve been out of the office for some time, obviously, but coming back today I was struck by it. Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead people to join you. Ruth […]
Tag: technology
Learning Analytics and the Outsourcing of Teacherly Judgement
Who does our thinking for us as teachers? Increasingly, it seems like both educational technology companies and our own administrators are interested in outsourcing the judgement part of our teaching to algorithms. I have written about these algorithms before, and my most significant concern with them is this notion of outsourcing something which is, for […]
“Pedagogy Before Technology” Is a Thought-Terminating Cliché
We can and must do better. I am going to start this post by pointing you to someone brighter, smarter, and more coherent today, because Tim Fawns theorizes everything I am about to rant about in his thoughtful “An Entangled Pedagogy.” Honestly, you can read Tim and skip the rest of what I have to […]
Open as in Hearts
In a few talks and conversations lately, I’ve been using a wee maxim to describe my own thinking — and more importantly, my own priorities — when it comes to open education: “open as in hearts, not open as in source.” That’s not to say I don’t think open source projects matter or that I […]