Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 34, the one with the Shih Tzu
Posted on: 16 September 2024 by Dr Tunde Varga-Atkins in General
In Episode 34, in addition to lightbulb moments, treasure island pedagogies/props and luxury items, our discussion from being scared to being confident, varying assessment methods, dialogue, the relativity of innovation, hackathons, authentic assessments, pets in education and neurodiverse-friendly approaches.
Speakers: Kimberly Davis, Stella Kazamia, Matthew Danes
Date: 16 September 2024
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 34 podcast
(Treasure Island Pedagogies Episode 34 - Podcast Transcript)
Read or listen to find out our guests’ lightbulb moments, teaching props, pedagogies and luxury items that they would take to their Treasure Islands for precious contact time with students.
Kimberly Davis
University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Original discipline: Literature and Cultures, Rhetoric and Composition, Education
- Current Role: Academic developer specialising in curriculum design and assessment and feedback literacy.
- Lightbulb moment: The lightbulb moments for me happen when staff who only want to use in-person timed exams design more meaningful and accessible assessment methods, or when students discuss how happy they are with feedback they’ve gotten on a piece of work.
- Teaching Prop or Pedagogy:The pedagogy would be something of a mix between social constructivism and liberationism. I’d be bringing my copy of Pedagogy of the Oppressed or a whiteboard and some markers for a makeshift collaborative learning space.
- Luxury item:Can I say my partner? He’s nonstop entertainment. I’d probably bring a box full of books, or if there is electricity, my tablet that has over 200 books on it and apps that would let me do some writing as well.
Stella Kazamia
University of Surrey, England
- Original discipline: Computer Science, Education.
- Current Role: Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Director of Employability.
- Lightbulb moment: My module-long hackathon groupwork experiment went well!
- Teaching Prop or Pedagogy: Constructivism and the concept of collaboration (lots of colourful post-it notes).
- Luxury item: Music
Matthew Danes
University of Warwick,UK
- Original discipline: School teacher, Digital Marketing.
- Current Role: Lecturer in digital marketing.
- Lightbulb moment: Moving from being a teacher to motivating students to learn – and spending more time on not just thinking about the what we teach but on the how we teach.
- Teaching Prop or Pedagogy: Sharing my rules, systems and structures with students - helpful for neurodiverse people, which helps me and my students
- Luxury item: My pillow!
Any sparks? How might our joined-up Treasure Islands look like?
Moving from being scared as a student or educator to positions when we have a go with something new is a recurring theme in a number of our examples. We also covered different ways of motivating students including pet videos as rewards for students completing quizzes which did work to raise engagement! We also talked about how sharing clear rules, systems and structures can be helpful both for us and our students from an inclusive perspective.
Links / resources
Kimberly's Links:
Stella's Links
- Group work -/ hackathon results from this year: via Linkedin
Matthew's Links
- DAS gamification (as example of how I employ structure and rules)
Facilitated by Dr Tünde Varga-Atkins, Sound: Chris Loxham/Sandra Samaca, Web design: Dennis Wong, Neil Murray @LivUniCIE
Keywords: Treasure Island Pedagogies, Podcast, Innovation, Education, Interdisciplinary, constructivism, critical theory, authentic assessment, active learning, hackathons.