Reflections on Session 1 Pedagogy

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Follow-up: Reflect

Post something to your blog about this session. Again, keep it as informal as you like. You might do any of the following, or something else entirely:

  1. Post up the images you showed, with a summary of your talk
  2. Synthesise what you learned from the sharing activity
  3. Describe your experience of the session and reflect on the teaching methods used
  4. List any questions that the session raised for you
1. Images of the 5 minute presentation I put together, inspired by Victoria from the first session

2. Synthesise what you learned from the sharing activity, below I post the chat comments that came up during the presentation, and I’ve highlighted in pink comments that I am actively thinking about:

Samuel Roe
13:40
Deborah can we be friends?

Erica Weide
13:40
(SMILEY EMOJI)

Samuel Roe
13:40
I am from Philly (HAPPY FACE EMOJI)

13:40
and do 3D / VR

Carrie Mok
13:42
same here

Yves Salmon
13:42
(THUMBS UP EMOJI)

Crimson #2
13:43
Interesting presentation – screen based opportunities and communities in the virtual world is something I am thinking about a lot in my teaching since the shift to blended learning and online only learning

Yves Salmon
13:43
agreeing with carrie

Sarita Wilkinson
13:43
same for me

Deborah Tchoudjinoff #2
13:43
Exactly

Samuel Roe
13:43
I get a lot of Imposter Syndrome

Carrie Mok
13:44
snaps

Deborah Tchoudjinoff #2
13:44
: )

Megan Pickering
13:44
Same here

Crimson #2
13:46
One challenge we face at the moment is creating a sense of course community online in this new teaching landscape

Alice Wilson
13:46
There’s (I think) an anthropological teaching method called ‘object itinerarie

13:46
which made me think about your approach to objects

Deborah Tchoudjinoff #2
13:47
Thanks Alice

Alice Wilson
13:47
VR and real

Frances Ross #2
13:47
I was trying to get my head around some theories (some too big to digest for me yet) but found this group useful for their glossary. their conference series might be available on YouTube 

13:47
recursivecolonialism.com/home

Carrie Mok
13:47
Thanks Frances, that’s helpful

Samuel Roe

13:47

I’d also be interested to hear how you steer students away from purely digital work, I’m also very interested in bringing work off the screen but my students often seem to fall into traditional format (ME TOO SAM)

Slides from other’s presentation’s which asked questions that is relevant to my teaching as well

2/3. For me the question that came up was how to teach technologies while also including pedagogical references. Which in the case of my presentation I chose Hito Steyerl’s The Wretched of the Screen as she presents challenges of easy image production and how that is changing the way with which we give image a significance. How to blend practical skills with also the ability to be critical about the tools used? These questions certainly pertain to teaching a large course such as BA GMD where students are diverse and in large groups, meaning while aware that students could be feeling a lack of community and perhaps a sense of self isolation. Here is a text I like from https://parsejournal.com/article/the-mise-en-scene-of-post-human-thinking/

“The fact that humans operate as part of larger ecologies, and that their agency and sense of self is intimately intertwined with the affordances of these ecologies, is of course not new, nor unique to today’s technology. As theorists of post-humanism have pointed out, this condition has merely been obscured by a history of human-centered thinking and, as Hayles and Hansen observe, technological developments now make this condition more obvious and more intense. This situation, Hansen argues, requires that humans develop better awareness of their modes of being, experiencing and thinking, as well as their sense of self and of agency, as being implicated within larger apparatuses.”