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Teacher of the Ear

Teacher of the Ear

By Chris Friend

The aural side of Hybrid Pedagogy, listening for ways to empower educators and champion student agency
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Teacher of the EarFeb 01, 2022

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Hope

Hope

Chris Friend (Kean University) talks with Brenna Clarke Gray (Thompson Rivers University) about finding hope in education, even—or especially—in today’s world. Along the way, Brenna explains the importance of learning technologists, the dangers of cruel optimism, and the critical need for honesty at all levels in academia.

A complete episode transcript is available. Our theme music is by Blue Dot Sessions. This episode’s cover art is by Aaron Burden on Unsplash. The show is hosted on Anchor.fm, and you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. The full catalog of episodes, including show notes and complete transcripts, lives at hybridpedagogy.org/podcast.

Jul 19, 202246:16
Kindness

Kindness

Chris Friend (Kean University) talks with Cate Denial (Knox College) about her pedagogy of kindness and ways to make teaching easier by trusting students.

A complete episode transcript is available. Our theme music is by Blue Dot Sessions. This episode’s cover art is by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash. The show is hosted on Anchor.fm, and you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. The full catalog of episodes, including show notes and complete transcripts, lives at hybridpedagogy.org/podcast.

Jun 10, 202239:28
Feedback

Feedback

Laura Gibbs believes feedback—giving advice and support—makes learning and growth the center of any class. Hear her thoughts on providing meaningful feedback, separating feedback from assessment, working alongside students, and ungrading.

A complete episode transcript is available. Our theme music is by Blue Dot Sessions. This episode’s cover art is by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash. The show is hosted on Anchor.fm, and you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. The full catalog of episodes, including show notes and complete transcripts, lives at hybridpedagogy.org/podcast.

An earlier release of this episode contained time-offset audio that has now been corrected.

Feb 24, 202233:34
Love
Feb 01, 202232:33
Optimism

Optimism

Back in October 2021, Jessica Zeller posted a tweet about a particular class session. She said her class “went everywhere” and that she already missed being in that class by later that same day. Jessica said they discussed “not passing down our own pedagogically-induced trauma; the problem with ideals; ego, power, & responsibility; how words shape students' feelings about their bodies; & pedagogic optimism.”

Hear Jessica’s take on the inherent optimism of teaching, what we could all learn from ballet pedagogy, and the benefits of ungrading, regardless of content area.

Our theme music is by Blue Dot Sessions. This episode’s cover art is from Sandy Millar on Unsplash. The show is hosted on Anchor.fm, and you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. The full catalogue of episodes, including show notes and complete transcripts, lives at hybridpedagogy.org/podcast. This episode has a complete transcript available.

Jan 05, 202225:27
Self-Care
Dec 17, 202140:34
Public Scholarship

Public Scholarship

I talk with Dr. Mia Zamora about ways the work we do at our institutions should benefit others outside our disciplines, our silos, even our institutions themselves. We talk about ways to blur the lines between school and community, between class and real-world, between disciplinary expertise and broader experience.

Dec 02, 202131:13
Care

Care

In this episode, I talk with the Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed Collective, which fosters queer, feminist, and anti-colonial approaches to digital humanities teaching. The collective consists of Ashley Caranto Morford, Arun Jacob, and Kush Patel, representing the fields of English, Indigenous, and Filipinx/a/o studies; Information Studies; and Architectural History-Theory and Design Studies. They lead workshops, deliver talks, author texts, and teach courses within coalitions in and across the Global North and Global South that challenge the overlapping injustices of historically white, upper caste, and heteropatriarchal orders, while illuminating the specifics of those injustices and education-centered counternarratives in a given place.

Theme music from Blue Dot Sessions; full episode transcript available.

Nov 10, 202141:46
Scholarly Communication

Scholarly Communication

In August 2021, the Digital Pedagogy Institute took place online, hosted by the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto Scarborough, Ryerson University, and Brock University. I was one of two plenary speakers at that event. The other was Hannah McGregor. Her presentation asserted that scholarly podcasts are a form of pedagogy. In this conversation, we talk about how podcasts can be positioned as scholarship, but along the way we challenge the nature of scholarly communication; analyze scholarly publication as a system; question the relationships among teaching, scholarship, and service; and imagine how un-grading principles could apply to tenure and promotion evaluations.

Theme music from Blue Dot Sessions; full episode transcript available.

Oct 13, 202140:14
Introducing Hybrid Teaching
Oct 01, 202106:29
Connection

Connection

Classes moved online for the pandemic, even those that rely on in-person interaction. How can we maintain connection with students? Sherri Spelic explains.
Jun 16, 202027:60
Active Gratitude

Active Gratitude

What is the nature of gratitude? What does it challenge — or allow — us to do? And how does it change when we think of it as being *active*? I talk with Amy Slay and Kate Bowles to learn more.
Apr 01, 202047:09
Publishing

Publishing

Cheryl E. Ball shares how she blends professional editing, modern publishing, and digital pedagogy to create meaningful courses beyond the classroom walls.
Jun 12, 201938:55
Platforms

Platforms

Chris Gilliard walk us through concerns he has about the state of online surveillance, dangers lurking behind asking students to work in online platforms.
Dec 04, 201845:56
Asking The Right Questions

Asking The Right Questions

Asking the right questions — from teachers and students alike — can make all the difference in helping us connect with one another and our courses.
Jun 21, 201831:50
Access

Access

What does it take to access an education? I spoke with Robin DeRosa about this broad issue that affects the way we do things in our classrooms and schools.
Mar 07, 201740:02
Openness

Openness

Students ask about our interests and lives to understand & connect with us. What happens when the answers reveal more about us than we’re ready to share?
Aug 03, 201642:00
Questioning Learning

Questioning Learning

Amy Collier emphasizes the importance of questioning — as a means of improving our teaching, enhancing student learning, and understanding our contexts.
May 18, 201640:55
Responsive Teaching

Responsive Teaching

Our teaching should be responsive, adapting to the situation, the students, and the semester, not determined by the textbook.
Apr 20, 201634:05
Networks

Networks

I talk with Bonnie Stewart about networks in education and society, plus how they work with activism, identity, and power relations.
Jan 21, 201641:44
Collaboration

Collaboration

This episode of HybridPod explores the idea of collaboration — how it works, what it is, and how we can facilitate it in our classes.
Oct 29, 201531:12
Digital Pedagogy, Part 2

Digital Pedagogy, Part 2

New technology may make it too easy for us to focus on novelty, not on implications, in our digital pedagogy. What are risks & benefits of tech in class?
Sep 12, 201528:20
Digital Pedagogy, Part 1

Digital Pedagogy, Part 1

Have we moved from analogue to digital teaching? We talk about transitioning learning into today’s technological era — about digital pedagogy.
Aug 06, 201531:44
Play

Play

This episode explores the assertion that “play is serious business" and tests the ways in which it can be applied to today’s educational environments.
May 18, 201533:30
Assessment and Generosity

Assessment and Generosity

Kris Shaffer and Asao Inoue discuss generous ways to assess student work, and we’ll hear from Lee Skallerup Bessette to consider institutional assessment, empathy, and student needs.
Mar 20, 201529:36
Compassion and Integrity

Compassion and Integrity

Common systems that check finished work for signs of plagiarism turn it into a punitive situation, rather than a teaching opportunity. That’s the big difference between the student experience of plagiarism and the academic understanding of it. What if we looked at citation as a compassionate authorial act? Could we situate quoting and referencing as an act of academic kindness?
Feb 23, 201516:40
Listening to Students

Listening to Students

Much of the conversation about modern education discusses what we as teachers can sayor do within our classrooms. Relatively little attention is paid to what we can hear from our students. In this episode, we’ll explore some of the benefits we can get, and improvements we can make, if we essentially talk less and listen more.
Jan 26, 201523:50