The Risks and Rewards of Staying Fresh in Our Teaching
Bonni Stachowiak, Director of Teaching Excellence and Digital Pedagogy, Vanguard University
Books mentioned
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate,, by Peter Wohlleben
- Real Food, Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It, by Larry Olmstead
Podcast Episodes
- #53 with Peter Newbury (peer instruction)
- #130 with Chris Gilliard (digital redlining)
- #114 with Ken Bauer Favel (engage the heart and mind through the connected classroom)
Risks
- Storify: Safety and Our Digital Identities
- Digital Residents and Visitors
- Digital Redlining
- Digital Literacy
- The Web We Need to Give Students
Collaboration
- Robin DeRosa’s Post on OpenTextbooks
- Pressbooks
- Alan Levine’s NetNarratives Digital Storytelling Class
Communication
Continuation
- Chicago Architecture Foundation’s DiscoverDesign
Final Thoughts
- Hang On Little Tomato
- Connect with Bonni on Twitter
- Subscribe to the Teaching in Higher Ed weekly update
- Listen to the Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast
Poll Questions
- What book has stretched your thinking recently?
- Pedagogy of the oppressed
- Malcolm Gladwell Outliers
- The New Jim Crow
- Weapons of Math Destruction. Cathy O'Neil also has a fabulous TED talk
- Mindset by Carol Dweck
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0
- The Compound Factor (?) Maybe The Compound Effect?
- Neurocounseling and empathy (author forgotten)?
- The Orphan Master's Son
- Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- Thank You for Being Late — Tom Friedman
- Rereading To Kill a Mockingbird
- Dreamland by Sam Quinones
- Small Teaching by James Lang
- Grahamine Kather by history hisotir Personal (?)
- The Framer's Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution by Klarman
- The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
- Teaching Naked, Jose Antonio Bowen
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Evicted
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- We Were Eight Years Together – Ta Naheshi Coates
- Stamped from the beginning _ Ibram x kendi
- The Culture of Connectivity by Jose Dijck
- Creative confidence: unleashing the creative potential within us all
- Iron Dawn by Richard Snow
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
- Is There a Text in this Class | How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One. Both by Stanley Fish
- Climate of Hope
- The Courage to Teach
- Gary R. Howard, We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools (Multicultural Education Series)
- What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
- Learning to be in the world with others
- The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning In and Across the Disciplines
- The Vanishing American Adult – Sasse Hillbilly Elegy
- Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, fiction but provoking
- Consumology (?) Maybe – Consumerology: The truth about consumers and the psychology of shopping?
- Pro: Reclaiming abortion rights, Katha Pollett
- Between the world and me
- revisiting 1984
- Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence, by Sarah Young
2. What other risks exist as we explore ways to leverage educational technology?
- Not exploring all student engagement avenues
- FERPA violations
- lack of training and time
- Technology failure. This can ruin your entire class period.
- Costs
- Students over curating responses for public consumption. Often more honest and authentic when channel is closed
- Access to technology
- Using technology for the sake of using technology, not being intentional in the overall outcome/goal of teaching
- Accessibility
- Dependency on technology
- Losing “control” in the classroom. How do we use it without it becoming a distraction.
- Lack of communication among students
- LMSs constrain teaching to a narrow set of teaching and learning models that are inherently part of the LMS design.
- My community college students often only have digital access from computers on campus
- Student misuse or disrespect to others, especially if anonymous
- Rabbit Holes!
- Advertisements !!
- Infrastructure/Access FOR US
- Becoming far to dependent.
- the traditional aspect of the “classroom” – going against the culture of the institution
- Digital literacy of students
- Too much “safety” behind screen when asking for open discussion
- Lack of student discussion environment
- Students getting further training on remembering and understanding concepts, but not having the opportunity to apply and analyze about that information.
- The development of oral and formal written communication can suffer
- Diminished capacity to “see” the quality of engagement among students… and that's at the heart of quality teaching and learning
- Reliable and integrated technology
3. What educational technologies do you use in helping students collaborate, connect, or continue their learning?
- FlipGrid
- Google Docs
- Google classroom
- Class Updates App
- Evernote
- YouTube
- Canvas
- Polleverywhere
- PollEverywhere
- Google apps
- Piazza
- Wix
- Voice Thread
- Group Me
- Prezzi
- kahoot.it\facebook
- Google Apps for Education
- Kahoot, GroupMe, google meet guest lectures
- Snapchat glasses
- D2L
- Socrative 🙂
- YouTube
- Privilege journals
- collaborating on Tableau
- FlipGrid, Shared Google Docs and Slides
- Adobe Connect classroom for group work and live chat
- facebook\Google hangout\Piazza
- Kahoot, Quizizz, custom course videos on Vimeo
- Doodle
- Calibrated Peer Review
- Trello\ Canva\ Groupme
- I ask them questions… is that a technology?
- Padlet
- Skype
- Padagogy Wheel is helping me.
- Slack
- Group Me
- Voxer
- Remind