Comments on: Elicitive pedagogy in the digital age /now/peacebuilder/2012/02/elicitive-pedagogy-in-the-digital-age/ Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:01:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Brian R. Gumm /now/peacebuilder/2012/02/elicitive-pedagogy-in-the-digital-age/#comment-7008 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:01:06 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/?p=4872#comment-7008 In reply to Emma.

Thanks, Emma, for your candid reflections on your own experience with online RJ education. I’ve also been a part of message board-only and message board+classroom (hybrid) courses, some being decent experiences and others being pretty disappointing.

By using synchronous technologies, it’s our hope with this class to remove some of the “irony” of talking about community but never actually seeing each other. Incorporating the values of restorative justice into the teaching and learning experience itself was very important to us.

Best wishes to you and your current studies!

]]> By: Emma /now/peacebuilder/2012/02/elicitive-pedagogy-in-the-digital-age/#comment-7007 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:39:59 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/?p=4872#comment-7007 I just finished a one-year 100% online certificate in Restorative Justice through a university in B.C., Canada. It was definitely a mixed experience and did seem highly ironic to talk so much about community and presence when we never met throughout the whole year. You may have different technologies but we didn’t even go online at the same time – basically we just used message boards and for me it was rather a dissatisfying medium.
If you can generate a simultaneous online experience, which it sounds like you are doing, that will help a lot. It will never be as good a learning environment as a classroom, in my opinion, but it facilitates learning for people who may not be able to come to another location, and that’s a good thing. At Vancouver School of Theology where I am now, there is the option to attend classes by skype which is also good for students in other countries who skype in. It’s not perfect, and still not like being there, but again, it does help.
Wishing you “luck” with this process!

]]> By: Brian R. Gumm /now/peacebuilder/2012/02/elicitive-pedagogy-in-the-digital-age/#comment-6957 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:16:15 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/?p=4872#comment-6957 In reply to Jonathon Colman.

My pleasure, Jonathon! The koru is a favorite symbol of Howard Zehr when he talks about restorative justice, so it’s the first thing I went looking for on Flickr. I really appreciate you putting it on there under CC license! Thanks!

]]> By: Brian R. Gumm /now/peacebuilder/2012/02/elicitive-pedagogy-in-the-digital-age/#comment-6956 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:16:01 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/?p=4872#comment-6956 In reply to Nathan Barge.

Thanks for the feedback, Nathan. We’ve talked about that chat window and I’m somewhat with you. Perhaps one way to look at it is to consider the embodied classroom equivalents. For instance, at CJP there are a number of people who knit while there’s a class lecture going on, and I happen to be a life-long notebook doodler in the classroom. So even in embodied classroom situations there’s a lot of potential for distraction but also ways to channel that distractibility toward pedagogically good ends.

There’s also the notion of having been trained in a digital environment where a chat window is somewhat of a normal fixture. At 32, I’m an almost-digital native, the internet becoming widely available when I was in high school. The chat room for the digital native is, well, quite native! :) Now, this doesn’t get us off the hook, because it can be abused, but I don’t think we’ve crossed that line in our class.

It could be said that one reason I save chat transcripts and post them on the Moodle site is to have a record of conversation. So by students and instructors can reviewing it, we’re able to see how well we used it, and adjust accordingly.

Thanks again, Nathan, both for your feedback and for participating in this fun experimental learning endeavor!

]]> By: Nathan Barge /now/peacebuilder/2012/02/elicitive-pedagogy-in-the-digital-age/#comment-6954 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00:39 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/?p=4872#comment-6954 As a participant in this class, it has pushed me to shake off my neoludite tendencies.
I am impressed on how we can connect with students and presenters from around the world with out the expensive of traveling to one location. The technology however permits to many conversations at times. The text chat during the actual presentations in class is some times a distraction to the importance of deep listening. Are we over stimulated by simultaneous conversations to really listen well?

]]> By: Jonathon Colman /now/peacebuilder/2012/02/elicitive-pedagogy-in-the-digital-age/#comment-6949 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:26:46 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/?p=4872#comment-6949 Thanks for using my photo – love your adaptation!

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