When you know something, how is that knowledge determined? In other words, how do you know that you know something? As you might expect, I assert that rhetoric plays a large role in the process of meaning creation and negotiation. I want to walk you through how it all works. But first, let’s see the...
Superhero movies are all the rage these days. We enjoy escaping reality for a while to watch larger-than-life characters fight high-stakes battles for the survival of the planet, or the species, or the universe, or whatever. In these movies, we expect great things of our heroes. They conquer evil and vanquish vexing villains, sometimes with...
On 30 March 2019, I presented a talk by this title at the Florida Collegiate Pride Coalition. Now that I’m leaving the institution featured in this conversation, I feel it’s time to commit these ideas to a post. When I announced my acceptance of a new job back in 2014, one characteristic of the school...
How easily can students access data about course materials? How easily can corporations access data about students? The access imbalance in higher education has turned classes into obstacles and students into profit-generating data points. I highlight those issues in this talk, presented on 10 Aug 2021 as the opening keynote for Digital Pedagogy Institute 2021,...