Profesor 2.0, blurring the boundaries

by | Thursday, April 16, 2009

I am in Chicago to give the Keynote address at the 2009 DePaul University Faculty Teaching and Learning Conference. The conference theme this year is Engaging Minds: Pedagogy and Personalism. I was invited by Sharon Guan (she was part of the AACTE Innovation & Technology Committee that edited the TPACK handbook). The title of my talk is Blurring the Boundaries, The Personal and the Professional in a Webbed World. Here is a brief description of what I will be talking about

Dr. Punya Mishra of Michigan State University asks DePaul faculty to consider the role of the professor’s identity (or persona) in course design. What are the challenges, benefits –and limits — of bringing personal experiences, values and interests into one’s teaching? We want our students to see us as “being knowledgeable yet accessible, wise but funny, cerebral but warm, benevolent and yet firm.” How can we do this in an age where we are increasingly communicating via electronic media that alter, extend and/or challenge the teacher’s identity?

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2 Comments

  1. Punya Mishra

    It is all that and more… watch for the video coming soon to my website (if the DePaul people deliver what they promised).

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  2. Gaurav Bhatnagar

    What is identity? Is it constructed in real time? Or a mental model in your own mind. Or it is whatever can be observed from your behavior?

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