The back-to-school experiment lasted four days for the little one. By Thursday of the first week, it was clear that this wasn’t a good experience…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Tag: pedagogy
Homeschooling is nearing its 2020-21 end, thankfully. Some materials we have used were good and some were merely the best we could locate. The good…
Schools, from K12 to universities, rushed online after March 13, 2020. Sadly, the COVID-19 coronavirus and poor online education pedagogy and design went hand-in-hand thanks…
One of the serious questions facing proponents of online education is if the current nature of online courses encourages poor teaching methods. The qualities of…
I agree with this, and hope we eventually realize that technology-driven education (often how online is marketed) is a mistake. Technology should support pedagogy, not…
As the second week of courses ends at my university, and I have prepared for the third, I finally have a bit of time for…
People have asked me (okay, two people) what “Poet Ponders” is meant to be. What is my purpose? I now will attempt to clarify what…
On March 1, 2011, I wrote about the difficult state of the academic job market in fields such as mine: “digital rhetoric” and “new media”…
Selected Bibliography on Technology, Philosophy, and Pedagogy Some texts either specifically or indirectly on the history of education and education theory (pedagogy) that have influenced…
When I have attended meetings or conferences and the topic was online courses, a great deal of attention is paid to the “target audience” for…