There are three articles this week that discuss open pedagogy, digital redlining and learning spaces.

In the article A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students the author explains open pedagogy is a place where theories about learning, teaching, technology, and social justice enter into a conversation with each other and inform the development of educational practices and structures (Robin, D., Rajiv, J et al., 2017). And I totally agree with what the author talked about the “disposable assignments”, the commercial textbooks might be expensive for college students since they don’t have enough money to afford that. And electronic textbook could be a convenient one for students to download and browse.

The article Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy Gilliard and Culik discuss internet filter, the internet block access to information, and the student Nina has been digitally relined, walled off from information based on the IT policies of her institution. I also noticed that after Nina researching the topic, the digital redlining occurs because she relies on the school for internet access beyond her phone. And I was wondering does the technology restrict or promote openness and access?

In the article Safe Learning Spaces: Youth, Literacy and New Media in Remote Indigenous Australia author lists eight principles that can be of value in building or facilitating learning spaces. One thing that inspired me is to engage with the world, mediating between old knowledge and new technologies and creating contemporary forms of cultural production.

 

Reference:

Gilliard, C. & Culik, H (2019). Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy. Retrieved July 20, 2020, from https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/digital-redlining-access-and-privacy

Kral, I., & Schwab, R. G. (2012). 4, Design Principles for Indigenous Learning Spaces. In Learning spaces: Youth, literacy and new media in remote Indigenous Australia. Acton, A.C.T.: ANU E Press. Retrieved July 20, 2020 from https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p197731/html/ch04.html?referer=&page=10#toc_marker-11

Mays, E. (Ed.) (2017). A Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students. Rebus Community Retrieved July 16, 2020, from https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/chapter/open-pedagogy/ [chapter 1]