Barsha Tamang is the co-founder and CEO of Lokopakar, a youth development organization. The organization is offering programs for youth, in particular adolescent girls, in Nepal. The goal is to raise awareness among young people for different pathways … Read more
Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel from the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane University, delivered an inspiring talk about designing empowering education as part of a series organized by Elon’s Center for Design Thinking. … Read more
Pedagogy embraces methods to teach and help students grow as independent and educated thinkers but not all students learn in the same way so it is vital for educators to create more opportunities for people to learn as … Read more
End of July, I participated in the first online edition of Digital Pedagogy Lab (https://dpl.online/). For those unfamiliar, Digital Pedagogy Lab is the professional development and practical training program from Hybrid Pedagogy (https://hybridpedagogy.org), the journal of critical digital … Read more
In this session of the social media class, we talked about how things can go wrong in social media networks, and, more generally, while communicating in a globally networked society. First however, we discussed how messages become viral … Read more
An Urgency of Teachers: the work of critical digital pedagogy is a collection of intelligent counsel and an emotional summons. Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher) and Jesse Stommel (@jessifer) can be arresting poets. When I first stumbled upon Jesse … Read more
Design thinking is a problem solving method geared to overcome wicked problems, that have no right or wrong solution and resist traditional scientific and engineering approaches, as “the information needed to understand the problem depends upon one’s idea … Read more