Intro: a Critical Digital Pedagogy Buffet
Critical digital pedagogy is a complex topic with multiple facets and it's difficult to get an all-encompassing look. This track will take a "buffet" approach, offering a taste of everything, and will be perfect for people who are new to these ideas. The processes we use will be mostly participatory workshopping and reflection. Social justice will be central to our content choices and processes. As a cohort, we will work to empower through care, and to make these complex concepts digestible. We will create a co-learning journey where each participant can contribute to the collective learning.
The buffet will offer a taster of different elements of critical digital pedagogy. Explore your tastes, gather ideas and ingredients along the way, and bring a dish to our potluck on the final day.
Each day has a different focus:
- Day 1: Inclusive community building
- Day 2: Critical open pedagogy
- Day 3: Decolonial/antiracist pedagogy
- Day 4: Ethical edtech
- Day 5: Potluck: everyone shares reflections, synthesis, ideas, plans
Throughout the week, we will collaborate asynchronously and synchronously across different timezones. Synchronous sessions will use Liberating Structures and Theater of the Oppressed techniques, which are themselves useful methodologies for critical digital pedagogy.
This track is ideal for:
Recommended Reading
- Equity Unbound, Community building resources.
- Maha Bali, et al. eds., Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education
- Maha Bali, et al., "Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Hybrid Video Dialogue: The context of virtually connecting."
- Autumm Caines and Erin Glass - "Education before Regulation: Empowering Students to Question Their Data Privacy"
- Autumm Caines and Sundi Richard - "The Weaponization of Care"
- Chris Gilliard, "Pedagogy and Logic of Platforms"
- Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel, "If Freire made a MOOC: Open education as resistance."
- ZEMOS98, "pedagogy of care // open paper"
Faculty
Maha Bali
Mia Zamora