Discussions

Your Name and Title:

  Dr. Patrick Faverty, Executive Director    

School or Organization Name:

  Lowell Institute

Area of the World from Which You Will Present:

   California, United States

Language in Which You Will Present:

   English

Target Audience(s):

    All educators, teachers, administrators

Short Session Description (one line):

 

"It is time for Critical Digital Pedagogy, centered on international community & collaboration."

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):



Critical Digital Pedagogy centers its practice on community and collaboration; must remain open to diverse international voices, and thus reimagining ways that communication and collaboration happen across cultural and political boundaries; cannot be defined by a single voice but rather must gather a cacophony of voices; and must have uses outside the traditional institutions of education.

For some time now, the call for technology integration in classrooms has been a regular topic of school reform, transformation, and improvement. Nonetheless, many educational leaders will attest that while technology is increasingly finding its place in classrooms, it is only a small cadre of teachers utilizing technology in classrooms to improve student academic achievement through the use of critical digital pedagogy. If pedagogy itself is not changing through the use of digital technology then the problem is clearly not the tool but the method in which it is used. 

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To make this change in focus we need three things to happen….

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:

Audrey Waters presentation at ISTE, June 2015 http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-computers-in-schools/