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  1. Mar 2021
    1. engage students in new ways and prepare them for future careers

      Indeed, by doing things that we can not otherwise do without tech... the transformative aspect of SAMR.

    1. The bacon/egg/cheese saga represents the one-size-fits-all scenarios we often see in our classrooms: Every student is expected to read the same book at the same pace, listen to the same lectures, and complete the same math problems using the same materials. These inflexible solutions expect compliance and favor students who don’t face significant barriers to traditional learning. Many of the “tried and true” techniques and curriculum in classrooms perpetuate privilege rather than focusing on learning, autonomy, and empowerment. 

      Then you have them taught by overworked adjuncts. Pay McDonald's wages, get McDonald's food.

    1. If professional nursing organizations and institutions are truly committed to nursing values of compassion, social justice, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom, they will:

      Nurses. Eat. Their. Young.

    2. often in the vein of protecting the integrity of the discipline and the public.

      OK, I have taught numerous aspirant nursing students. My partner is a nurse. Nursing is a really interesting test case of social justice pedagogy. On the one hand, you make life-and-death decisions. On the other hand, "nurses eat their young." Many nurses wash out—perhaps unnecessarily. Programs are often predatory. It is HARD to do nursing, particularly if, as many nursing students do, you have young kids or come from an underprivileged background. But... given that so much of healthcare is now on nurses, don't you want the person making those life-and-death decisions to have gone through the most rigorous education possible?

    1. how they will teach courses or which technologies will be used to support teaching and learning

      Or content of courses. Why the Global course I interviewed to teach last week was called the "West in the World" was a big topic of conversation.

    2. Our country today is in dire need of living up to its creed, and we can only do that if we embrace and live out the principles of inclusive design and design justice.

      I am all in favor of both reparations and inclusive design, but to someone who is not acquainted with CRT, this seems like a non-sequitur. We academics and social justice advocates need to write better in order to get the largest possible number of people on board (Bell's convergence theory).

    1. “when a proper response is demonstrated following the presentation of a specific environmental stimulus” (Ertmer & Newby, 2018, para. 18

      Pavlov? Where would Skinner be in this...?

    2. watch the Introduction to Evaluating the Learning Experience Provided by Digital Tools and Apps video

      Ah, Bloom'd taxonomy! The problem I always had with it is it's so didactic. It also gets turned into a bureaucratic formula...

    1. Laws About Privacy and Data

      Yet, the government (i.e., the NSA's "Predator" program) can collect such data. However, it is, my cousin assures me, placed in a "black box" and only may be accessed with a search warrant. Not so with private companies.

    2. The right to privacy means “a person has the right to determine what sort of information about them is collected and how that information is used” (Sharp, 2013, para. 14).

      In Europe there is also "the right to be forgotten." This is the right of individuals to "determine the development of their life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the past." You can have your information deleted from databases. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten.

  2. Feb 2021
    1. Conclusion

      Got it. So, while we must design curriculum and assessments for all students, we must also ensure that the tools we use to do so are themselves accessible to students with the four categories of disabilities, using the POUR criteria.

    2. Multiple Means of Action and Expression provides students with multiple ways to show their understanding of the content (e.g., giving them a digital media choice board).

      In Equity class, it was pointed out to me that asking students to write the "classic college essay" is essentially a racist practice. Asao Inoue, for instance, sees teaching writing as reproducing racism. Students from other cultures and with other abilities may benefit from different assessment. This is also related to a Funds of Knowledge approach.

    3. Multiple Means of Representation means providing more than one way to access and learn the content (e.g., an e-book that features text, embedded videos, and virtual manipulatives).

      This is very important, especially since many students—including ELL students—benefit, for instance, from captioned videos. However, it's beneficial to ALL students who have to watch educational videos when home alone and working online, since they can turn their volume down!

    4. Test the tool on the operating system(s) (e.g., Windows, iOS, Android) your students will use either at home or in class to access it.

      I would add: How recent an OS do you need? Not every student can afford the latest machine and OS.

    5. The instructions feature text, images, and videos, which are multimodal ways to learn how to use the tool.

      This idea also seems more in keeping with the principles of Universal Design. This, in turn, is key for accessibility.

    1. Each of these actions can support your learning and growth

      I should point out they also amount to unpaid labor. School districts and higher ed should support these activities.

    2. Participating and connecting with others allows you to heighten your opportunity for learning and crowdsourcing.

      This is true. However, on the negative side, I am very hesitant to put my failures in public, considering employers these days seem to take a panoptic view of one's activities.

    3. Which spaces are most valuable in helping you grow your craft as an educator?

      I feel like there are also examples of mis-education. The Pandemic Pedagogy group on Facebook, for instance, is very popular with less-computer-literate academics, and has a lot of not-very-good advice alongside pure gold.