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Care & Equity Goals
Day 3 of the module. I needed a little time to get acquainted with the materials and the format. As I reflect on what is
Metaphor for teaching
I chose a couple cookbooks as my metaphor for teaching, because the way I cook, I might have a general recipe, but what I end
Alison's Highlights
I’m highlighting this for myself so I can find it again and remind myself that as early as the start of my Year 2 at PSU, I was already thinking in the directions I have ended up taking in the ever-evolving refinement/ revision/ development of my pedagogy.
I don’t have a problem with Bloom’s Taxonomy, though I know it’s heavily questioned within the DF platform. I like Bloom’s because it’s a bank of words that help us measure what is in essence an immeasurable thing: learning. How do we measure what someone has learned? No metric will ever be perfect, but Bloom’s at least gives us some places to start that are useful, with demonstrable skills or qualities that help us see the impact we’re having.
The terms I use to describe my pedagogy have shifted slightly, from “critical compassion” to “empathic engaged pedagogy.” At the core, it’s a pedagogy rooting in caring for the student as a whole being, showing up with authenticity myself as a whole human, examining the underlying assumptions of the ideas we engage with, and hopefully fostering in the students a sense of themselves and a capacity to think, synthesize, and evaluate the information around them. These are crucial professional skills for a Social Worker.
So that’s why I am highlighting this post from Sept 2022.
I want to capture this Design Bite so I can find it again easily bc it’s an idea I can easily adapt to my own courses, and I think it’s a brilliant means of engaging students in a different way.
I’m highlighting Briana’s comment to my reflection because of the importance of this sentence in her response:
But, if we’re “in charge” of “producing/molding” intelligent, work-force ready, career-driven, successful super-humans, what needs to sidle along side with this, is the “human-ness”. Imperfection, staying open, vulnerability, CARE, compassion, EMPATHY, integrity, resilience, inclusiveness…these all need to be practiced and accepted in our classrooms and offices with the hope that they are mirrored and reciprocated by our “humans” here and beyond.
No matter what subjects we teach or what our roles are on campus, we are shaping the lives of humans. The institution can easily dehumanize us. It’s what institutions do. EMPATHY is key to reminding us of our shared, collective humanity. So I wanted to capture the comment as a reminder.
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Stop Five: Exploring Your Portfolio
This page is your personal workspace in Design Forward. Whenever you complete an activity in a module, it will be posted here. In addition, you can add portfolio items at any time. At the bottom of the page, you will see a gray bar with options to add images, files, videos, text reflections, or workbook pages.
On the right, you will see your most recent comments and annotations as well as any questions you’ve asked.
Your portfolio lives outside of any individual module — it is available across your entire Design Forward experience. If you click on the Participants link you will be able to see everyone else participating in a module and visit their portfolios. They can visit yours as well.
Take some time to explore the options in your portfolio; you don’t need to add anything at this time. When you’re done click the “Back to the Map” button.
At the end of this stop in the Orientation journey, you will have
- Understand how content is added to your portfolio
- Learned that your portfolio is available across all the DF modules you participate in.
I’m highlighting this because of Robin’s final comment:
“But it seems like online connections have different parameters, affordances, and requirements which we really haven’t sussed out enough…”
It’s a good reminder for me of a place where I can work into. My goals for the Davis-funded work was to engage with the “beast” of online teaching & learning and this conversation seems like an important place to start and to revisit periodically.