This week’s reading and videos make me think of the meaning of school and education. After we talked about so much about different styles, different thinking ways, different ideas of teaching in this pedagogy class, I feel I learned a…
Category: Contemporary Pedagogy
Contemporary Pedagogy course, Spring 2017
Walking Down the Alter to Have Dialogues
When it comes to critical pedagogy, I think teachers’ self-reflection and the definition of the relationship between themselves and students really matter. When the teachers see themselves as the authority, there is the danger that the teaching and pedagogy would…
Achieving Diversity without Doing a Disservice
Inclusive pedagogy is a comprehensive topic. To discuss it, we need to fully understand diversity issues first. I took the course, Diversity and Inclusion for a Global Society, last semester with Dean DePauw. The course talks about diversity issues from…
Three “Wow”s about Finding My Teaching Voice
When I tried to discover my authentic teaching self, I went through three “wow” moments. Wow, panic is a common thing. That was the first feeling I went through when I was discovering my teaching voice. When I started to try…
Brain Puzzle and Unspeakable Intension : On-line Course Learning
When digital learning and social media usage become new trends in higher education, we start to hear so many good things about digital learning, and we begin to get showed by “Big Data” about how powerful social media is. People…
FedEx Day – A Real Pink Time Experience
When we started to talk about the next topic “Assessment” in class, we watched video, called “Drive – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, created by Dan Pink. The unique last name “Pink” suddenly caught my attention, related to…
Go Back to the Original Intention of Learning
Everybody must have the doubt more or less as why do we live. It is kind of ironic that we tend to think more about it when we are sad, when we are down at the bottom of our life.…
Building A Bidirectional Communication Channel Through Networked Learning
My perspective of networked learning contains different aspects of learning and interaction with people, surroundings, internet, social media, information, knowledge resources, and so on. Added to Gardner Campbell’s opinion (2016) that networked learning includes “a real-world context that provides deeply…