Matt’s Notes
We’ve made it to the end of the first week of 2023! Congratulations to you! And to us as well…
Do you like the MinimalistBlogger theme on this site? I went so far as to buy the Premium theme… mainly because I’ve never tried such a thing, more than to access the Premium features per se… and for the “Forever” subscription for Theme Updates… all in all, about $70 US… it takes the form of a plugin which is uploaded to WP after paying for the theme…
“Funny” story: one of the Premium features is “SuperbThemes Typography” which requires the Easy Google Fonts plugin in order to work… so when I added the Premium theme, the theme overwrote the Google Fonts plugin which I had already added… not such a big deal? Perhaps… except that after much trial and error, I had added Zen Antique as the predominant font family across the site… which is included in Google Fonts… but not in Easy Google Fonts… so… I disabled the Easy Google Fonts plugin… went back into the customizer… went into the Google Fonts plugin… and re-established Zen Antique across all areas of the site…
This is a case where… apart from the lifetime updates… and being able to customize the copyright message on the footer… there aren’t really any Premium features which are needed for this… MINIMALIST theme…
All in all, a learning experience! If there are any features which you feel like this site could use… or if you have any hot WordPress tips, tricks, or recommendations… feel free to drop a comment below this post!
Finally… at Doug’s suggestion… given that we now have a potentially much wider audience for the audio for this pod… I’ve prepared two different versions… the video is pretty much as we’ve been doing since the beginning… however the audio is more concise with the intro and outro… by next episode, I expect we’ll have what will be recurring theme music for the audio version… and perhaps something of a “canned intro” in place… so the audio only audience will be able to make sense of what’s going on a bit better… particularly for those joining us for the first time…
OK… more tech details here than I necessarily intended! Thanks as always, Doug for the compelling topic… and thanks to Antonia Darder for her absolutely lit Introduction to Paulo Friere’s The Pedagogy of the Heart (2021)… I believe in all sincerity that anyone involved in an ed tech role would do well to read Darder’s intro… as well as the rest of the book!
Abundantly, bountifully, plentifully yours…
Doug’s Notes
The pedagogy of abundance: How is technology impacting this concept?
The work of the professor becomes consequential only as it is understood by others. Yet, today, teaching is often viewed as a routine function, tacked on.
Boyer, E. L. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Princeton University Press, 3175 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648.
An instructivist pedagogy then can be seen as a direct consequence of the demands of scarcity.
The scale and range of learning related content at least raises the question of whether we have developed the appropriate teaching and learning approaches to make best use of it.
Weller, M. (2011). A pedagogy of abundance. Revista española de pedagogía, 223-235.
Digital curation is an active process whereby content or artifacts or both are purposely selected to be preserved for future access. In the digital environment, additional elements can be leveraged, such as the inclusion of social media to disseminate collected content, the ability for other users to suggest content or leave comments and the critical evaluation and selection of aggregated content.
Ungerer, L. M. (2016). Digital curation as a core competency in current learning and literacy: A higher education perspective. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 17(5).
There is a danger in narrowly viewing learning as the acquisition of resources…
Our vision of pedagogies of abundance extends beyond traditional conception of open access to distance learning to encapsulate the idea of learning fluidly across different contexts of life, from formal education, to workplace learning to interest-based learning
Littlejohn, A., & McGill, L. (2016). Ecologies of open resources and pedagogies of abundance. In The Future of Ubiquitous Learning (pp. 115-130). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Word of the podcast
A post knowledge economy
Question of the podcast
Has abundance helped or hindered you as you have learned?
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