Tag Archives: Amy Collier

Oct 03 2018
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Critically Critiquing the Core Concepts of Critical Pedagogy (Say that 7 times fast!)

This mind map serves to illustrate the significance of Amy Collier’s Hybrid pedagogy (which you can view here). As discussed in this podcast, critical pedagogy refers to the constant analysis, review and critique of our own individual practice. As future educators there is no “best practice.” Technology helps us develop, build and innovate our own educational pedagogy. As an educator studying in the field, I wish to incorporate the use of many technologies through roles of substitution, modification and perhaps redefinition in order to evaluate, engage and enrich the learning styles of my students. This “not-yetness” to learn is important in understanding how educators must strive for uncertainty and risk in their practices. We must never stop learning, growing and implementing new and effective practices into our own teaching modes. Be willing to feel uncomfortable, fail and implement the impossible. The future generations of our educational system depend on our uncertainty now to lead them to better things. I believe I am willing and open to new technologies and will do my best to critique my own practices for the sake of my development and my future students. I am not afraid to immerse myself into this new world of media, reflection and ambiguity. My “not yetness” is my key to braving a world full of media and new advances. I am ready to begin… I hope you are too!

Please enjoy this illustration.

The platform I chose to use to summarize the article was a sketchnote. I personally did not feel comfortable using online technology that was new to me. As well, as I was listening to the podcast, more and more ideas popped into my head about what to draw/create in my sketchnote. In my sketchnote, the different ideas/topics that are touched upon in the podcast are connected by links.  I incorporated illustrations, with the least amount of writing. If you can see the second idea is eyes, an at symbol and a light bulb. This is to represent us “looking at her thoughts and feelings” on the topic of not-yetness. I also threw in the SAMR model (literally, the letters SAMR modelling on the runway…). Amy touches upon this in a way during the podcast and how to use this to better our pedagogy. I enjoyed making this sketchnote as I found it relaxing to colour and draw things while working on an assignment.

 

Here are more zoomed in photos of my sketchnote! Just want everyone to be able to see it! (I didn’t realize there was not a zoom in feature of the blog!)

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Oct 03 2018
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Questioning Our Pedagogy

I choose to do the Hybrid Pedagogy podcast with guest speaker Amy Collier. The program I decided to use for my digital expression of the podcast was padlet. The podcast was very interesting and Amy Collier made many good points about the way educators think about their pedagogy in today’s education system. During the podcast we learn about critical thinking and how it can change the formulaic expression of pedagogy by teachers. It is very important that a instructivist model is changed and modified to a more constructivist model through the process of learnification. The education system needs to be as personalized as possible. The constructivist approach changes the way students think and instead of mass producing students that are all the same we can have students that want to ask the inherent questions about things they are interested in.

Lastly, learning outcomes are not always a bad thing but they are usually generalized to the whole class being at some specific point in the curriculum. These types of learning outcomes are forced upon the students and brings them to a point where they all know the same knowledge usually learned the same way. These types of pedagogy and learning values need to be re-evaluated. Evaluation by the use of critical thinking when done correctly can create a more individualistic learning experience that will spark inherent questions leading to new ideas maybe never seen before.

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Oct 03 2018
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Keep Calm and Question On

I chose to respond to the HybridPod Podcast with Chris Friend and Amy Collier using a sketchnote. Prior to this assignment, the extent of my art career was doodling cartoons in the margins of my class notes, which seems to have come in handy for this assignment. I decided to experiment with a sketchnote for this reflection because it is out of my comfort zone, and I wanted to embrace the discomfort of risk-taking, as discussed in the podcast! I had a ton of fun making it, and although the flow is lacking a bit I hope you can follow my thoughts.

Multimedia Reflection #1 (for a closer look)

The main take away from the podcast is the importance of critical pedagogy and questioning the latest and greatest teaching methods. I particularly appreciated the discussion of “canned” courses and how we can break through these with critical pedagogy and integrating technology in the classroom. I think Amy’s focus on embracing the discomfort of not knowing is so important, and teaches students that mistakes are allowed, and often lead to the best learning opportunities.

As a logical thinker who often places too much importance on the “right” answer, I think this podcast was a great introduction to this course for me. In my future classroom I want to emphasize the importance of giving your best effort and questioning the new things that students are learning. With my teachable in math, I think far too many teachers are “my way or the highway” thinkers. As an educator, my goal is to question my pedagogy while encouraging my students to question other ways to find the answers they are looking for. This collaborative environment will allow everyone present to embrace the discomfort of not knowing.

Kate Hatfield

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Oct 02 2018
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Don’t Understand? Don’t Worry.

Truth be told, I decided to listen to the Hybrid Pedagogy Podcast because I couldn’t bring myself to read the entire article.  I would much rather listen to a good discussion about pedagogy than to read about it on my own…  In this episode of the podcast, host Chris Friend introduces us to Amy Collier who shares her beliefs about education and her strategies to overcoming standardization in the classroom.  She introduces some similar concepts (like the different learning styles of students) and some new concepts (like “not-yetness”).  Apparently, sometimes the best way to understanding is to spend time struggling with not understanding!  For those of you who can’t bring themselves to read the article or listen to the podcast, here is a short 1:47 Powtoon I created to sum it up and to give you some insight on Amy’s way of Questioning Learning.

For those unfamiliar with Powtoon, it is a program to help create animated displays or mini videos that you can use to explain anything.  The website gives an example as using it to evaluate a business. Although, there is somewhat of a learning curve to it and it can be time consuming depending on how much animation you wish to add, I found Powtoon to be extremely useful. It helped me explain exactly what I wanted to and the unique animations help emphasize the key points of the presentation. As a future math teacher, I initially thought that I wouldn’t have any use for this in a math lesson. However, after creating this short video, I can see many uses to it.  One idea I had would be an animation to show division. You could show a number being decomposed into all of its factors through a short video. This would help any visual learners you have in a classroom. You could also narrate the video to help any mainly auditory learners. To any other kids in the class with different learning styles, this video can do no harm as it is a fun way to display new concepts. I am a fan of Powtoon and it’s ability to, like Amy, challenge the standardized (chalkboard & textbook) learning that we still experience today in math classes everywhere.

Anyway, enjoy!

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Oct 02 2018
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332wednesday12 Video

the reason we dont have flying cars or hover boards (the answer is not what you think!)?

I hope there’s bonus marks for next level clickbait titles, because I nailed it!

This is my multimedia response to the Hybrid Pedagogy podcast.  I try to tie in ideas about bureaucracy and technological progress into my response with limited degrees of success.  it was my first time using Adobe Premiere in a long while, and it definitely shows.  Also, I’ve learned not to use a condenser mic to try to record audio in quiet rooms because all it does it destroy the audio.  I wish I had not posted this right before it was due so that it would be buried in all the other submissions, but alas, here we are.  It gets a little silly. I’m pretty happy with that default thumbnail though.  Hope y’all enjoy.  Umm follow my UwinDig twitter I guess?  It’s sure to be a hoot.

Here is one of the bad pictures I made to put in the video.

what a hunk

Also, I’m sorry.  I accidentally did a swear but it was like my 15th take, and I just wasnt having it (its censored though, please forgive me).

Also, technically the meat and potatoes of the video is only like 5 minutes (from like 0:25-5:30) so its sort of within the time limit.

 

Edit: updated tags

Edit:  I did a twitter thread as a reflection of sorts… click here for that… or maybe i can embed it? we’ll see…

yaaaay, sort of…

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Oct 01 2018
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NOT YETNESS IS A-OKAY!- Anthony Pisciuneri

This multimedia reflection serves to emphasize the Hybrid Pedagogy Podcast with Amy Collier and the importance of critical pedagogy within a classroom setting.  It is important that educators understand that there is no “best practice” for teaching, especially in a world where technology is changing how we access, understand and deliver information.  Amy explains the importance of “not yetness” and how we must encourage teachers to be willing to grow and create new ways of reaching students using the present-day technology.  Uncertainty, risk and discomfort is okay—for it is what motivates us to keep searching for effective educational practices.  As a future educator, I value the importance of learning new skills and gaining information using multimodality platforms.  In addition, this inspires me to use these methods within a classroom setting and relate curriculum to student experiences through forms of substitution, augmentation, modification and perhaps redefinition, in order to delivery curriculum efficiently and with the utmost enthusiasm.

Link to Podcast is below

http://hybridpedagogy.org/questioning-learning/

I hope you enjoy this POWTOON video. The link of the video is listed below.

Enjoy,

Anthony Pisciuneri

 

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