Muhlenberg College chat with faculty

muhlenberg-faculty.md

Warts and All - A Conversation About Research and Engagement in the Classroom and Online

or bait and switch:

actually, I'm talking about productive failure in my research and teaching and how that plays out in my classroom

Part One

• I am in fact an imposter. Who else but an imposter would have these kinds of fails on his record?
  • the Scripto Fiasco
  • the Wikiblitz Debacle
  • the HeritageCrowd Affair
  • the Parable of the Welders

Part Two

• What are your teaching fails? (no need to share aloud ;)

  • would you feel comfortable sharing these? Why or why not?

• A taxonomy of productive fails, Croxall and Warnick

  • type 1: tech failure
  • type 2: human failure
  • type 3: failure as artefact
  • type 4: failure as epistemology

Part Three

• Let's classify our fails. I'll go first.
  • Scripto: type [] ?
  • Wikiblitz: type [] ?
  • Heritagecrowd: type [] ?
  • the Welders:
• What types of fails then have you encountered?

Part Four

• Fail as epistemology: How do you convert a fail into a learning experience?
• my first experience centering fail front and center: HIST3814 & its FAQ