Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Surveillance capitalist ed tech sells surveillance pedagogy. Fear and surveillance is no way to teach. https://t.co/o9C7tihu2l — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 7, 2018 Don’t spy on your students. Build pedagogical approaches premised on trust and respect. Maximize the best practices rather than letting potential bad actors frighten you into building your teaching approaches around …
I have decided to stop giving in-class tests under any circumstances. Here’s my essay, from the Chronicle: I’ve been inching away from the blue book for years, but it’s time to go cold turkey and match my praxis to my principles. Whatever pedagogical gains the in-class test might bring — and I’ll argue they are …
My friend RC alerted me to this piece on a police training simulator for learning how to reduce misuse of force when encountering autistic people or people with various mental disabilities. It touts the virtues of the virtual playback versus role-playing-based training. Through the simulator, deputies are immersed in true-to-life scenarios — exactly the kind …
Over on Chronicle Vitae, a group of students at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign, have written a spectacular piece – “A lecture from the lectured.” They open by citing pieces that sneer at students today for being distracted, boring, and un-intellectually curious, then respond with appropriate scorn. At a university like ours, where thousands …
I finished a major corporate (disability-related) project this week and am hard at work on a major non-profit (disability-related) project now. That, plus teaching, plus the book, has slowed me down in terms of writing for mainstream media, but I trust that the depth of these bigger projects is more than worth it. In the …
We cannot say: The best pedagogy is handwriting because science, if that “best pedagogy” excludes so many people with disabilities. #ableism — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) October 26, 2015 We must say: Let’s figure out what it is about handwriting (means) that produces good learning (ends) and universalize those ends. #pedagogy — David M. Perry …