Miceli's Thoughts on Teaching

With all the amazing synchronous activities on Day 3, I barely got to engage in the Day 3 materials in our STEM-H and Critical Digital Pedagogy course. So I'm skipping my reflection there, and opting to write today about today's topic: Open Pedagogy. Open Pedagogy was my gateway into Critical Digital Pedagogy. Open Pedagogy literally changed me as teacher. It was all Rajiv Jhangiani's fault. He came and spoke at Roger Williams my first year as an OER fellow (I had already bought into OER a few years prior) and he described projects where students were creators of content. And all of a sudden I asked myself "What would a non-majors science textbook look like if it were written by non-majors?" It looks like these websites. I've written about the project for the Open Pedagogy Notebook here , but I recently sat down and thought about some of the theoretical pieces that, while I didn't really consciously think of them when designing the project, absolut...

I was finding myself a little burnt out yesterday afternoon because of so many amazing things passing through my brain. Luckily thought my husband decided to surprise me with a car? Like does that happen to other people? I thought that only happened in car commercials. To be fair, his car had been in an accident over a year ago and should have been totaled - he had been having issues and a friend told him it would be thousands to fix. We've had an ongoing saga regarding cars, as he's gotten a few new cars to my one 2010 sedan. The next car was supposed to be mine. So he opted to surprise me with it. It's also a finishing my PhD present 1.5 years later, so that's cool too. I went out and drove it around for a bit. It was a lovely brain break. Anywho, Day 2. I've read and listened to some amazing work, and has some really wonderful discussions in the past 2 days. In the STEM-H track we focused on Critical Digital Pedagogy yesterday, but I really walked away with...

Wow. What a day yesterday was. I've had difficulty this summer doing anything academic (precarity and pandemic do not equal productivity, that's for sure), and I jumped right in to all the readings, videos, podcasts and discussions happening in the STEM-H and Critical Pedagogy course. My brain is still tired from everything it took in yesterday, but having slept on it all, I have some clear points I wanted to write down. So I set up a blog - welcome to the inaugural post! I discovered Digital Pedagogy Lab, the brain child of Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel last spring - I couldn't figure out a way to financially get there last year. But I was determined to get there this year! I almost didn't, because yet again, finances were going to get in the way, so the silver lining to the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 is that DPL went online! I was so excited because there was a dedicated STEM track - its not easy to find STEM folks willing to chat about pedagogy, let alone...