Teaching @ Technology Eportfolios and Critical Digital Pedagogy
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Andrea Rehn
Whittier College
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Critical Digital Pedagogy & Connected Learning Teaching
Challenges Student
engagement How (and when) to
choose a digital tool
E-portfolios & Signature Learning Activities Social Annotation Create Your Space
Wordpress Google tools Diigo Bit.ly
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• Open document• Choose personal color• Write what you want
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Howard Rheingold
“What people know about how to use media matters… The digital divide now has to include the divide between those who know how to get and to verify information they need just in time and just in place, those who can cultivate and call on social networks…from those who do not.”
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Howard Rheingold
New Learning Modes & Skills
1. Attention2. Participation3. Collaboration4. Crap detection5. Network smarts
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Digital Liberal Arts
Use Available Tools
Network &
Digital Literaci
es
Iterative & Collaborativ
e
Create New
Tools/Resource
s
Public-Facing
Research
Digital Pedagog
y
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Adeline Koh
“At its best, the digital humanities is
about engaging more critically with the intersections
between technology and how we act,
think, and learn.” @profrehn #diglibarts
Digital Projects
A gallery of primary sources A digital scholarly edition A mapping project Network/System Visualizations Computer-aided Text Analysis 3-D Modelling Multimodal or Media-rich
Publications
--adapted from Miriam Posner
examples
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Bit.ly/profrehntools A quirky curated list of tools and
resources for digital pedagogy
TOOLS
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Critical Digital Pedagogy
“don’t wield outcomes [or digital tools] like a weapon”
--Jesse Stommel
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Steps to craft assignments
1. What is primary goal for students with this course / assignment?
2. What is my digital pedagogy? How does my goal for this assignment intersect with my broader teaching philosophy?
3. What tools that I already use (analog or digital) could help me achieve these goals?
4. In order for this activity / class to work, what gaps do I need to fill with other tools / strategies?
5. Is my idea simple enough? What can I do to streamline the activity?
6. What is my goal beyond this assignment / course? How will the activity (and my pedagogy) evolve? How soon can I bring students (their feedback and the fruits of their work during the first iteration) into the continuing evolution of the activity / course?
7. Go back to step 1 and repeat.
Stommel
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Steps to craft assignments
The next steps are pointedly “below the fold” and outside the first recursive loop, because assessment should never drive our pedagogies
8. Does this activity need to be assessed? Or does the activity have intrinsic value?
9. Is there a way to build the assessment into the assignment? For example, can I have students reflecting on their process inside the activity itself
10. What additional assessment strategies should I use? (These might include peer-assessment, self-assessment, narrative feedback, peer review, points, a rubric, letter grade, or some combination) or external summative assessment.
11. What is my goal in assessing student work?
12. Go back to step 8.
Stommel
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12 Steps to craft assignments
These steps are also in the Gdoc
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