some thoughts on pedagogies, from donal o' mahony
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From expression to dialogueSome thoughts on pedagogies
Secondary-school teacher
eLearning 2005
Masters in 2007
Teaching and learning in the digital space
Unique level of support from my school
Current interests Junior Cycle Reform: Short-courses and Whole School CPD
Paolo Freire
...Freire (1970) rejects what he calls the banking concept of education where knowledge is the property of the teacher, rather than an act of knowing between teacher and student. This act of knowing is what Freire calls dialogue, where teachers and students empower each other and fulfil each others vocation to be more fully human (Freire 1970).
...dialogue for Freire is an epistemological position and is not to be reduced to a technique.
Paolo Freire
How can I use Moodle, a collaborative online learning environment, to improve my
practice as a history teacher, as I encourage my pupils to think critically?
2007
Moodle Forum What Does It Mean to be Irish in 2007?
Historical Context: The Irish Ireland
movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Forum Start Date February 2007.
1 Technical Reflection. 2 Descriptive Reflection. 3 Dialogic Reflection. 4 Critical Reflection. 5 Contextualisation of multiple
viewpoints.
Hatton and Smith (1995)
Reform....Learning as a Process rather than product
Freire’s...act of knowing...
Discussion...assessment of that act of knowing
Portfolios (e or otherwise) to capture the learning
Junior Cycle Reform
Elliot Eisner
Great teaching traffics in enduringpuzzlements and persistent dilemmas.
Certainties are closed streets, not locationsthat interest the mind.
Great ideas have legs. They take yousomewhere.
The Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
“The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.”
My opinion – that digital and social media will allow this
Elliot Eisner
“... A blog is a web log and can be simply described as an online space where posts are made by the owner of the blog and comments are returned by anyone who wishes to respond. ...”
Blogging
......as a way of expression (Eisner) and of dialogue (Freire)
eLearningIsland (2009 – present)
2OG blogs (2010)
Ada Lovelave (2013)
Twitter (2011 – present)
as a way of expression (Eisner) and of dialogue (Freire)
Expression Yes
....but what of the dialogue??
Little dialogue – more a monologue
Ideas that work in teaching and learning – Flickr, Twitter, live-streaming....
Connectedness (and none)
Policies around Social Media in schools
Ideas about how to take control of your online space ◦ Filter Bubbles Eli Pariser ◦ Virtual Communities and Collective Intelligence Howard
Rheingold ◦ Networked Publics danah boyd
Themes have developed
Some dialogue has developed
Moved eLearningIsland onto Twitter about three years ago
Pushed my ideas further into the educational space
Most tweets are related to education
Tweet within educational hashtags #edchatie
More space for dialogue
More possibilities for expression
Network of trusted educational relationships
Quality of the content
People
Engagement of the presentation
Simplicity
Consistency
Ecosystem
