Module 3: 6101
Torrey Trust, “Building a Digital Reputation,”
this is a helpful resource for creating a marketable online presences
it reminds readers that in interviews
Michel Foucault, “Panopticism,” Philosophy of Technology
starts off by talking about the plague
quarantine and separated
very depressing
not sure at first how this has anything to do with technology
Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (San Francisco, Calif.: Josey-Bass, 2007), Introduction and chapter 1: “The Heart of a Teacher,”
Francis Bacon, “On the Idols, the Scientific Study of Nature, and the Reformation of Education,” in Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition, ed. Robert C. Scharff and Val Dusek (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014), 33-46
We Teach Who we are
we are not perfect
we have good days and bad
"It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life." (pg 2)
Complex: #1 The Subject
Complex #2: The student
We teach from where we come from
"teacher-bashing has become a popular sport. Panic-stricken by the demands of our day, we need scapegoats for the problems we cannot solve and sins we cannot bear." (pg 3)
Do you choose the field or does the field choose you?
do teachers hide behind their field? or subject?
What is Bacon’s pre-modern view of a technological society? What did he get right and/or wrong?
What is Foucault’s post- or late-modern view of the technological society? What did he get right and/or wrong?
How do you represent yourself online professionally? How do you curate your digital identity?
I feel like I try to do this thoughtfully. I use my blog and twitter for professional work
My Instagram is private and I do not allow anyone I do not know to follow me.
My Facebook is also private and I try to keep that as social as I can.
I link up my linkedin with Twitter
I have a TPT dashboard to sell products
What values inform your decisions and actions related to power, teaching, and technology?
I am not driven by power
I struggle with classroom management when it comes to sticky situations because I just want them to understand the necessity of what they are doing.
I have a teacher website that is extremely organized and up to date. I certainly use this for power and documentation. Parents and students are well -informed well ahead of time about due dates and documents.
Bacon advocated was institutional rather than individual
three things change the advancement of learning
the places
the books
the persons of the learned
imagined a large cooperative effort
one wrong pieces is his avoidance of ethics
between both people, cultures and thoughts
Strict application of reason in order to minimize the pernicious influence of faulty habits of thought, which he called Idols of the Mind. He divided these into Idols of
the Tribe,
the Theater,
the Cave,
the Market Place
those arising from human nature
social convention
personal attachment
language
sought to reject the detrimental effects of what he called modern ‘technologies of power
built on these attitudes to articulate a conventional critique of technology’s alienating effects
associated with diverse human behaviors, with distinctions among them often less clear than for either artifacts or cognitions.
if you study anything in isolation it creates ignorance?
one of the things is he said was gun powder was a great invention
thinks it will create a time of peace
importance of the liberal arts
room for improvisation
technology as liberator
Technological activities inevitably and without easy demarcation also shade from individual or personal into group or institutional forms
dualistic division
you don't actually need people in the tower to control the group