Lee Skallerup Bessette joins me to talk about how to deal with and manage when stuff get’s out of control in our lives, as well as how to address those situations when it happens to our students.

… the intersection between technology and what technology can help us do in the humanities. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

We have unprecedented access to tools, to information, to interfaces, and the question that digital pedagogy attempts to answer is: ‘So what? What do we do with them?’ – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Often educational technology are almost commercially based, not to say that all of them are. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

#hilt2015 Digital Pedagogy – Making, Bending, Breaking https://t.co/hBI5JSGQOB

— Lee Skallerup (@readywriting) July 27, 2015

[When things happen outside your control], sometimes you’ve got to let go of some of the coverage [of course content] in order to accomplish the learning goals. – Lee Skallerup Bassette

Blogging was one of the things that I used to try to maintain some sort of balance. It was something I did for me and my own sanity. – Lee Skallerup Bassette

I saw my role as listening, so that they felt heard, and then guiding them to a place where they could be more effectively helped. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Sometimes it’s ok to let go of some of the content. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Cathy Davidson’s blog post – Handicapped by being underimpaired: Teaching with Equality at the Core .

Note: Cathy was a Teaching in Higher Ed guest on episode #028

Perhaps the worst people to teach writing are the best writers. – Lee Skallerup Bessette

Critical Digital Pedagogy Resources and Tools by Andrea Rehn

Lee inspires us for the start to the academic year:

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. And give your students the benefit of the doubt right from the start. – Lee Skallerup Bessette