Critical digital pedagogy: Weapon of mass instruction
Update (22-02-17): This post has been modified from the original. Changes include updated in-text citations, minor grammatical improvements and an added reference list. Yesterday I posted the first...
View ArticleCritical digital pedagogy: Education as the practice of freedom
Update (22-02-17): This post has been modified from the original. Changes include updated in-text citations, minor grammatical improvements and an added reference list. This is the third section of my...
View ArticleCritical digital pedagogy: Teaching at the edges of chaos
Update (22-02-17): This post has been modified from the original. Changes include updated in-text citations, minor grammatical improvements and an added reference list. This is the fourth and final...
View ArticleCritical digital pedagogy in the classroom: Practical implementation
This post is inspired by the work I’ve recently done for a book chapter, as well as several articles on Hybrid Pedagogy but in particular, Adam Heidebrink-Bruno’s Syllabus as Manifesto. I’ve been...
View ArticleWe’re all in beta
I was talking to Ben Ellis (@bendotellis) from Oxford Brookes University at the ER-WCPT conference in Liverpool last year and bemoaning the fact that the most interesting conversations – for me anyway...
View ArticleIn Beta: Thoughts on the first session
Yesterday Ben Ellis (@bendotellis) and I hosted the first In Beta session live on Hangouts. In Beta is a project that Ben and I started talking about when we met at ER-WCPT last year and the idea is...
View ArticleIs that it? More, better apps?
It seems that much of the literature on the use of technology in education focuses on apps (Instagram, WhatsApp), services and platforms (Google Docs, Facebook) and hardware (tablets, laptops and...
View ArticleAn introduction to artificial intelligence in clinical practice and education
Two weeks ago I presented some of my thoughts on the implications of AI and machine learning in clinical practice and health professions education at the 2018 SAAHE conference. Here are the slides I...
View ArticleRobots in the classroom? Preparing for the automation of teaching | BERA
Agendas around AI and education have been dominated by technology designers and vendors, business interests and corporate reformers. There is a clear need for vigorous responses from educators,...
View ArticleWe Need Transparency in Algorithms, But Too Much Can Backfire
The students had also been asked what grade they thought they would get, and it turned out that levels of trust in those students whose actual grades hit or exceeded that estimate were unaffected by...
View ArticleEmotions and assessment: considerations for rater‐based judgements of...
We identify and discuss three different interpretations of the influence of raters’ emotions during assessments: (i) emotions lead to biased decision making; (ii) emotions contribute random noise to...
View ArticleAnother Terrible Idea from Turnitin | Just Visiting
Allowing the proliferation of algorithmic surveillance as a substitution for human engagement and judgment helps pave the road to an ugly future where students spend more time interacting algorithms...
View ArticleTechnology Beyond the Tools
You didn’t need to know about how to print on a printing press in order to read a printed book. Writing implements were readily available in various forms in order to record thoughts, as well as...
View Articleadapting to constant change
The human work of tomorrow will not be based on competencies best-suited for machines, because creative work that is continuously changing cannot be replicated by machines or code. While machine...
View ArticleIn Beta and sunsetting consumer Google+
Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers. This review crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building...
View ArticleMy presentation for the Reimagine Education conference
Here is a summarised version of the presentation I’m giving later this morning at the Reimagine Education conference. You can download the slides here.
View ArticleReflections on the In Beta podcast and community
It’s been about a year and a half since Ben and I started the In Beta community (see my first post in July 2017) and I wanted to reflect on what we’ve achieved in the past 18 months or so. Here are the...
View ArticleSAAHE podcast on building a career in HPE
In addition to the In Beta podcast that I host with Ben Ellis (@bendotellis), I’m also involved with a podcast series on health professions education with the South African Association of Health...
View ArticleBook chapter published: Shaping our algorithms before they shape us
I’ve just had a chapter published in an edited collection entitled: Artificial Intelligence and Inclusive Education: Speculative Futures and Emerging Practices. The book is edited by Jeremy Knox,...
View ArticleUCT seminar: Shaping our algorithms
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a short seminar at the University of Cape Town on a book chapter that was published earlier this year, called Shaping our algorithms before they shape us. Here are the...
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