{"id":11412,"date":"2023-08-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=11412"},"modified":"2023-08-29T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:08:29","slug":"dancing-pedagogy-reflections-on-my-learning-design-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2023\/08\/dancing-pedagogy-reflections-on-my-learning-design-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing pedagogy: Reflections on my learning design journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dr Denise M. Sweeney <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first experience of academic conferences was when I was an educational designer in Australia and attended and subsequently presented at the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) annual conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My recollections of these conferences were positive where there was a good mix of listening, reflecting, discussing, and dancing the night away at the conference dinner. I usually went with work colleagues and got to meet new colleagues through workshops and events. I remember one conference in Brisbane in 2005 particularly well where in a workshop as part of a team we created a learning design which we subsequently presented to peers and received feedback. Many of us didn\u2019t know each other at the beginning of the workshop but we struggled and collaborated to create something by the end of the workshop. The workshop entitled \u2018Rethinking Learning:  A Learning-centred Approach to Curriculum Design\u2019 was facilitated by Diane Salter and Geraldine Lefoe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What strikes me now is why did this positive conference workshop learning experience from 2005 resonate so much that I was urged to mention it in this blog piece? And, how surprised I am that the workshop title is still so relevant in our current postdigital higher education learning landscape. As a conference participant I was able to immerse myself with colleagues in the complexities of a particular \u2018learning design\u2019 approach and experience curriculum design from a learning through talking about pedagogy and technology options and choices and doing this as part of a group. I have been on a learning design journey since that workshop that I am still on nearly twenty years later. ALT-C has become a part of that journey since my first conference in 2012 in Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is inspiring me now? What am I getting to grips with in the 21st<\/sup> century learning design space?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, a colleague shared with me an article thinking I would be interested in reading it and using its ideas with our \u2018students\u2019 (those university teachers and third space professionals who teach and support learning in HE). I am going to be doing just that in the new academic year. I wanted to share this article with colleagues as my contribution to ALT-C 2023 and its 30th birthday celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article entitled \u2018Entangled Pedagogy: Looking Beyond the Pedagogy\u2014Technology Dichotomy\u2019<\/a> is by Tim Fawns. What I like about the article is that it expands and enriches the technology and pedagogy learning design conversation. He states that there is a \u2018mutual shaping of technology, teaching methods, purposes, values and context\u2019 to contend with (Fawns, 2022, p.711). I am not wanting to review the article here, but I do think this has provoked my thinking and I am sure many others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What draws me in is the dance metaphor (as someone who has been immersed in dance through my children\u2019s involvement). In Fawn\u2019s \u2018entangled model\u2019 he sees pedagogy as the dance and technology is entangled within pedagogy. Therefore, the dichotomy of pedagogy – technology is not possible. One cannot \u2018choose a pedagogy and then a technology, nor can pedagogy be tacked onto an existing instantiation of technology\u2019 (Fawns, 2022, p.715). Teachers are the choreographers; however, students also contribute through their own interpretations of that choreography. There is nothing like seeing learning design with a fresh lens which can contribute to the 30-year long ALT-C conversation around pedagogy and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So those of you who will be attending ALT-C this year, what are your memories from conferences that deal with pedagogy and technology? How have they contributed to your own learning journey?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those of you who are coming to ALT-C for the first time, welcome. I hope that you can engage and share with colleagues and create memories. I hope that ALT-C becomes part of your learning design journey as it has for me.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find out more about ALTC23 on their website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My first experience of academic conferences was when I was an educational designer in Australia and attended and subsequently presented at the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) annual conference.  My recollections of these conferences were positive where there was a good mix of listening, reflecting, discussing, and dancing the night […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701,1496,1409],"tags":[725,1692,828],"class_list":["post-11412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-altc23","category-annual-conference","category-events","tag-altc","tag-altc23","tag-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1112\/2023\/08\/IMG_4884.jpg?fit=525%2C394&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11228,"url":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2023\/06\/when-diversity-amp-inclusion-is-a-key-conference-theme-it-changes-the-whole-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":11412,"position":0},"title":"When Diversity & Inclusion is a key conference theme, it changes the whole\u00a0game","author":"ALT","date":"23 June 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This blog was originally posted on 15 June 2023 on Dr Teeroumanee Nadan\u2019s blog teeroumaneenadan.com In the recent years that I have got the time and opportunity to be more engaged in the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) conferences, my line of work has been categorised as \u201cwildcard\u201d or sometimes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "altc23"","block_context":{"text":"altc23","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/category\/events\/altc23\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1112\/2023\/06\/image-2.png?fit=660%2C599&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1112\/2023\/06\/image-2.png?fit=660%2C599&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1112\/2023\/06\/image-2.png?fit=660%2C599&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11329,"url":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2023\/07\/our-engagement-for-change-in-the-sector\/","url_meta":{"origin":11412,"position":1},"title":"Our engagement for change in the\u00a0sector","author":"ALT","date":"21 July 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This blog was originally posted on 20 July 2023 on\u00a0Dr Teeroumanee Nadan\u2019s blog teeroumaneenadan.com How excited are you for\u00a0#altc23? 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