As a teacher, some of the projects I’ve asked students to do involved creating a thematic music playlist that represented a character in a short story; use a series of images or create a collage to explore a theme in a literary work; pull together a series of video, audio, and images to create a mashup […]

As I explained in the introduction to this week’s schedule, while our focus this week is on how computers and digital technologies are changing our notions of pedagogy, our readings this week have a distinct emphasis on what I’ve called a “pedagogy of doing”: of asking students to learn through activity-based projects and through making things. As I […]