It is SO cool how you all tied everything in together. The bridge pyramid–creative! Furthermore, your selection of the terms that leave to critical pedagogy are insightful.

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You guys did a great job! I personally am not very artistically-inclined, and it’s not because I have poor drawing skills. I can definitely put together a dope Power Point graphic, and I get really into it.

I hate to point out any image in particular, but I really like the continuous switching from S to T in Patrick’s graphic!

I think the expectations we hold ourselves too, as well as the people we interact with, play a large part in the distractions technology causes in the classroom. Emails need to be responded to within a reasonable amount of time, time-sensitive questions posed in text messages, even remembering to order something before it slips the mind. I think if we all took things a bit slower, we would allow ourselves to engage more actively in class–given the instructor is actually engaging. Can anyone really be mad at students for surfing the web if it is more informing and intriguing than the person standing at the front of the room facing the whiteboard?

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Thank you for the sharing this creative graphic, Medha! I agree with David Wiley’s point about sharing one’s expertise does not undermine one’s role as an expert. Expertise comes from experience; no one can take that from anyone else.

I will try to be mindful of the 5 R’s of open education as I move forward through my career.

P.S. I’ve found that new editions of textbooks are *not* worth the cost difference.

Thanks for the post, Akshay. I completely agree with your thoughts in this post. I have comes to terms with my inability to multi-task a long time ago. Yet, I have this very debate with my spouse *all* the time about multi-tasking: when I’m talking to him while he’s on Twitter, when we’re watching something together (that he selected, by the way) while, again, he’s on Twitter. I’m always left without a rebuttal when I ask him to prove he was truly paying attention, and he’s able to repeat what I just said. In reality, it seems he was tuned in for that moment and would have likely tuned back in to his phone the next moment. *SIGHS*

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Thanks for the reflection.

Do you still disagree on the issue but with better understanding of the other side? Or have you reconsidered your own perspective? Just wondering 🙂

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Don’t be sad. There’s a new generation of scientists/engineers emerging and having these conversations. Pretty soon we’ll push all the line-drawers out 😉

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Thanks attaching the link. I thought it was interesting that the disciplines highlighted in this article were economics, history, journalism/communication, law, and psychology. I wonder how those numbers look in STEM.

I’m actually curious to know what you think the implications are of the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in Academia?

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I appreciate your call to not overlook the small things. For me, it’s the small things that affect my day-to-day feeling of inclusion. It’s the elderly manager at Chick-fil-A who passes flyers for to each table, engaging in friendly conversation, yet chooses to make my “hat” the topic of discussion when he gets to my table because “you don’t see too many of them around here.” Here is Christiansburg, VA. The only real chick-fil-a in a 15-mile radius of Virginia Tech—a cultural hub. To my two male colleagues, I shouldn’t have been upset—because he’s old and is from a place where he doesn’t see a lot of Muslims, in head scarves no less. To me, I just wanted to treated like the people at the other tables being told about the opportunity to dress like a cow and get free food.

I like the idea voluntarily sharing information. I find it helpful to know why someone is behaving in a certain way, instead of making assumptions. Assumptions can be baaaad. In general, having that understanding can help to check one’s own reaction–reacting from a place of empathy rather than irritability.