Tag Archives: Critical Pedagogy

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 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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