Schedule

Topics and course materials

This is an evolving and emerging list. Please check back often. Tweet suggestions to @gedivt or use #gedivt

General Reminders about posting:

You need to post at least 7 times during the semester. There are nine posting opportunities during the semester. You are welcome to post more often, of course. The prompt for the week will be on the GEDI Central section of the front page.

Everyone needs to post for the first three weeks.

Posts are due by midnight Monday. Posts submitted on time will be available in the “weekly posts” section of the front page Tuesday morning.

General Reminders about commenting:

You need to comment on at least three posts for all nine posting opportunities. That means a minimum of 27 comments over the term. You need to read and comment on posts even on the weeks you don’t post yourself. Comments are due before class begins on Wednesday.

Week 1 (1/18): Learning Community Welcome

*Fri. 1/22: Set-up Blog and Post URL here by 5pm

Week 2 (1/25): Networked Learning (post — everyone)

Gardner Campbell, “Networked Learning as Experiential Learning” (2016)

Doug Belshaw “Working Openly On the Web” (201 4)

Tim Hitchcock “Twitter and Blogs are Not Just Add-ons To Academic Research” (2014)

Seth Godin and Tom Peters on Blogging (2009)

watch it again: TEDxKC – Michael Wesch – From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able (2010)

Week 3 (2/1): Anti-Teaching / Mindful Learning (post — everyone)

Ellen Langer, Mindful Learning (Canvas)

more on Mindful Learning by Ellen Langer (Requires VT Library login)

Ken Robinson – How to Escape Education’s Death Valley

Mike Wesch, What Baby George Taught Me About Learning

Mike Wesch, Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance (also here)Optional:

Week 4 (2/8) Assessment (post — everyone)

Alfie Kohn, “The Case Against Grades”

Eric Liu and Scott Noppe-Brandon, Imagination First, (intro, ch. 1; Canvas)

Donna M. Riley, We Assess What We Value: “Evidence-based” Logic and the Abandonment of “Non-assessable” Learning Outcomes” (Feb. 2016)

Marilyn M. Lombardi, “Making the Grade: The Role of Assessment in Authentic Learning”

Dan Pink, RSA Animate. Drive – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (11 minutes)

Dan Pink, The Puzzle of Motivation (TED Talk, 18′ 30″)

Week 5 (2/15) Engaging the Imaginations of Digital Learners (post)

Jean Lacoste, “Teaching Innovation Statement” (Canvas)

Robert Talbert, “Four Things Lecture is Good For”

James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach US (Canvas)

Mark C. Carnes, “Setting Students’ Minds on Fire”

New Learners of the 21st Century

Week 6 (2/22) Discovering your Authentic Teaching Self (post)

Sarah Deel, “Finding My Teaching Voice” (pdf here)

Seymour Papert, “Yearners and Schoolers,” from The Children’s Machine

Shelli Fowler, “The Authentic Teaching Self and Communication Skills”

Week 7 (3/1) Designing a Learner-Centered Syllabus

Due: Syllabus Draft

Steven Tepper and George D. Kuh, “Let’s Get Serious About Cultivating Creativity” (requires VT library log-in)

Gardner Campbell, “Curiosity as a Learning Outcome”

Paul Silvia, “Knowledge Emotions: Feelings that Foster Learning, Exploring and Reflecting”

Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish, “The ‘Change-up’ in Lectures” also here.

Supplemental Materials for Syllabus Design

Spring Break

Week 8 (3/15) Inclusive Pedagogy (post)

Shankar Vendantam, The Hidden Brain

Katherine W. Phillips, “How Diversity Makes us Smarter” (2014)

Brian Arao and Kristi Clemens, “From Safe Places to Brave Spaces” (Canvas)

Claude Steele, “Identity and Intellectual Performance” (Canvas)

Claude Steele, “Reducing Stereotype Threat” (Canvas)

Additional optional / supplemental resources also on Canvas

Materials and references from previous GEDI courses here.

Week 9 (3/22) Critical Pedagogy (post)

Shelli Fowler, “Paulo Freire and Critical Pedagogy” (Canvas)

Joe L. Kinchloe, “Paulo Freire (1921-1997) and “Moving to Critical Complexity” in The Critical Pedagogy Primer (2004), pp. 69-75 and 108-110 (Requires VT Library Log-in)

Paulo Freire, “The Banking Concept of Education,” Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ch. 2, pp. 71-86

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom, Ch. 2, pp. 29-37 Missing pp. 33-34. But complete excerpt is here. Start on p. 9 and read these sections: There is no Teaching without Learning, Methodological Rigor, Research, Respect for What Students Know

Optional: Paulo Freire, Short Video on Curiosity

Optional: June Jordon, Report from the Bahamas, 1982(Requires VT library Log-in); also here.

Week 10 (3/29) Formulating Your Teaching Philosophy

Due: Teaching Philosophy Draft

Gabriela Montell, “How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy”

The Professor is In, “The Dreaded Teaching Statement: Eight Pitfalls”

Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement (Iowa State CELT)

Supplemental / Optional:

Tutorial on Writing a Teaching Philosophy (University of Minnesota)

Faculty Focus: Philosophy of Teaching Statements (Magna Publications)