Brenna Clarke Gray’s Blog
It’s April, cats and kittens, and that means that for many of us, conference season is quickly approaching. We are paying fees and drafting papers and reminding ourselves of where we’re committed to and when and then panicking about conflicts. Or at least, that’s my usual April. Not so much this year. Most of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
One. Laptop / phone / technology bans. This conversation happens on Twitter a minimum of three times a year and every single iteration goes exactly the same way. Someone says they want to ban laptops in their class because, I don’t know, attention. Someone else (rightly) says, hm, seems ableist. Then the first person says, […]
I feel like the title here is self-evident, and yet we keep seeming to circle back to having to learn it over again. Today’s absurdist example is the guy who invented the Oculus (the VR headset thing) who seems to think people would want a VR headset that literally, actually kills you if you die […]
Last week, before I found my way back to the land of the living, there was post on Times Higher Education about ungrading. Even in my shocked, grief-addled space, it found its way to me. Nothign like a tablespoon of rageful hate-reading to cut through the fog of mourning. Anyway. Ungrading is a way of […]