Digital Culture and Shifting Epistemology
In his article “A Seismic Shift in Epistemology” (2008), Chris Dede draws a distinction between classical perceptions of knowledge and the approach to knowledge underpinning Web 2.0 activity. Our...
View ArticleRules of Engagement; or, How to Build Better Online Discussion
All participation is not equal. Digital media prompt us for comments, but in an academic setting we should harness this cultural habit to teach the difference between expressing opinion and... The post...
View ArticleTrading Classroom Authority for Online Community
Early web commenters referred to the Internet as a primitive, lawless place like the “Wild West.” Plenty still needs to change to make certain parts of the web more civil... The post Trading Classroom...
View ArticleThe Tangle of Assessment
Grading and assessment are curious beasts, activities many instructors love to hate but ones that nonetheless undergird the institutions where we work. Peter Elbow begins his essay “Ranking,...
View ArticleHack the LMS: Getting Progressive
On the simplest level, a learning management system is any organizational pattern that assists teaching and learning. A grade book can also serve this function; so can a journal or... The post Hack the...
View ArticleIn Search of the “Peer” in Peer Review
In this article for the Guardian, George Monbiot calls academic publishing “economic parasitism” and academic publishers “monopolists,” which brings up a broader discussion about the purpose and...
View ArticleHybridity, pt. 1: Virtuality and Empiricism
This is the first in a series of articles that investigates hybridity as it relates to our positions as teachers and scholars, but also as learners, composers, and community members.... The post...
View ArticleDocument Sharing and Markup
Text becomes our voice in digital space. In the land-based classroom, we speak. In the online classroom, we compose. What we write, the way that we write, and our interactions... The post Document...
View ArticleExperiments in Mass Collaboration
One of the most innovative educational ideas of the last century, we propose, came from Paulo Friere, the Brazilian educational theorist and populist. In his critique of “the banking model... The post...
View ArticleWho Are We? Scholarly Identity Under Interrogation
On my first day as a student-teacher in a public high school (1999), my mentor teacher left me in the room at 8:20 a.m. to take a call in the... The post Who Are We? Scholarly Identity Under...
View ArticleTwitter Theory and the Public Scholar
In celebration of Twitter’s 6th birthday this week, we offer an examination of Twitter’s application to pedagogical and scholarly communities. I was very excited when I conceived of the original... The...
View ArticleOn Pedagogical Manipulation
Encouraging learning is an act of subtle manipulation. When we enter a classroom, we’re stepping onto a stage. This is true no matter how student-centered our classroom is, because our... The post On...
View ArticleHow to Storify. Why to Storify.
Intended to serve as a stop-motion camera for the torrent of information we get from social media, Storify allows the user to arrange pieces of conversations to construct a narrative.... The post How...
View ArticleThe Four Noble Virtues of Digital Media Citation
In digital space, everything we do is networked. Real thinking doesn’t (and can’t) happen in a vacuum. Our teaching practices and scholarship don’t just burst forth miraculously from our skulls.... The...
View ArticleNet Smart: a #digped Discussion
The Twitter chat archived via Storify. Howard Rheingold’s recent book, Net Smart: How To Thrive Online (MIT Press), feels almost custom-written for discussion on Hybrid Pedagogy. The book is not aimed...
View ArticleNet Smart Discussion Questions
Our investigation of pedagogical hybridity in this journal continually draws us out of narrow institutional discussions and into larger issues, namely whether or how to incorporate digital fluency into...
View Article#digped Storify: Net Smart
Hybrid Pedagogy proposed a one-hour, pedagogically-focused discussion on the introduction to Howard Rheingold’s new book Net Smart (MIT Press). The conversation took place on May 4, 2012 and ranged...
View ArticleFlipping Faculty Development: Teacher Training and Open Education
Audience has been a critical concern during our first five months at work on Hybrid Pedagogy. We realize the need to consciously expand our audience — to consider institutions and colleagues... The...
View ArticleHybridity, pt. 3: What Does Hybrid Pedagogy Do?
This is the third in a series of articles that investigates hybridity as it relates to our positions as teachers and scholars, but also as learners, composers, and community members. We also... The...
View ArticleOrganic Writing and Digital Media: Seeds and Organs
The act of writing is organic and generative. Ironically, this biological approach to writing is strengthened by digital environments that allow students and teachers to cultivate better compositions....
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