Experiential Approaches to Digital Teaching and Learning: Building Participatory Practices Workshop

What does it mean to engage in open professional teaching and learning practices, in an era defined by fake news and data surveillance? How can meaningful, mindful digital practices be scaffolded for students and faculty, in today’s institutions? This hands-on workshop explores digital teaching and learning as experiential learning. The session will lead participants through exploring their own digital practices, and frame thinking tools and experiential pathways to problem-solving and building learner-centered digital pedagogies. Focused around participatory practice in a variety of contexts, the workshop will showcase community-oriented approaches to knowledge creation and media navigation, and will model methods for experiential engagement, online and face-to-face.

This workshop is a part of the TEACHxpert speaker series.

About the Speaker:

Bonnie Stewart is an educator and social media researcher interested in the implications of digital networks for institutions, for culture and society, and for learning. Assistant Professor of Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning at the University of Windsor, Canada, Bonnie has an extensive background in digital and experiential education, and in work-integrated and adult learning approaches. Founder and Director of Antigonish 2.0, an international media literacy network, and current Visiting Fellow (2018-2021) at University of the Arts, London, UK, Bonnie was an early MOOC researcher and ethnographer of Twitter as an academic environment. Her current research interests include what it means to know, to learn, and to be a citizen in our current information ecosystem.