ktsoukalas – Contemporary Pedagogy

Attention and Multi-Tasking (#gedivt w12)

March 5, 2017 ktsoukalas

Attention is our focus of thinking. Being aware of where and why we focus our attention is being mindful of our attention that may switch to address issues with our surrounding environment. Based on the task at hand, we should be able to calculate where our attention needs be. For this purpose we need information […]

Week 12 - Attention and Multi-Tasking

Critical Pedagogy for social change from a local to the institutional level (#gedivt w9)

March 5, 2017 ktsoukalas

As Paolo Freire argued, “being tolerant” [1] creates opportunities to listen and experience diversity. Why should we be critical? Maybe to add different perspectives to the ones at hand. Who knows where such practice might lead. When should we be critical? Maybe when we think that we can provide (constructive) criticism that points out specific problems. […]

Week 9 - Critical Pedagogy

Inclusive Pedagogy (#gedivt w8)

March 5, 2017 ktsoukalas

Unfortunately it seems that we usually think in terms of one thing being better than another, which can be thought so for a specific context, but more abstractly it appears to be like our physical observations tell us: there are waves, but are made out of quanta. Long story short we think that something is […]

Week 8 - Inclusive Pedagogy

The world ticks in moments (#gedivt w6)

February 9, 2017 ktsoukalas

We have tones of voice and the world ticks in moments. A teaching voice sounds like a bird in a cage; aesthetically pleasing or not, the sound comes from a cage. True, some cages are bigger; some have more technology; others feel bad regardless their big size and high-tech tools. Wait; isn’t earth a cage […]

Week 6 - Your Authentic Teaching Voice

Digital Learners (#gedivt w5)

February 7, 2017 ktsoukalas

Digital form of data storage is a pretty malleable form. We turn numbers into pictures, sound, light, vibrations you name it! Robert Talbert points out four situations where lecture is good for and one that is not: “information transfer” [1]. I will argue the opposite. Lectures are meant for information transfer. The problem is not […]

Week 5 - Engaging the Imaginations of Digital Learners

Assessment: long story short (#gedivt – w4)

February 1, 2017 ktsoukalas

Something can only be replaced by something else. Replacing something with nothing has not really worked out in human history, because something is more practical than nothing when it comes to technology. Although nothing’s usability is superb, something has nevertheless more affordance at the human-in-environment paradigm (you know, humans in our beloved earth that we […]

Week 4 - Assessment

Networked Learning (#gedivt – w2)

January 26, 2017 ktsoukalas

W. Cambell discusses a difference between “numbers that mean things and numbers that do things.” What does “networked” mean for learning and what does it do to a learning experience? The latter seems easy. Networks enable learning that could not take place at the moment if the networks did not exist. Now what does it […]

Week 2 – Networked Learning

Hello GEDI!

January 18, 2017 ktsoukalas

Glad to be in GRAD 5114.

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