A Leap In The Dark: Season 1

It's been a while since the initial individual conversations were recorded for this podcast and so I brought the crew together for a round table discussion exploring where we were now in relation to digital literacy, hybrid learning, and other creativey things.

Welcome back to part 2 of Judy Wood’s conversation. We left off discussing how to create a safe space for the students during a time where it’s so easy to turn your camera and disconnect. We’ll pick up with what we’ve done to make our students feel included and present and continue our conversation from there.

The only way to continue learning during the pandemic was to move online. Judy Wood actually didn’t struggle in designing her online courses due to her background as an instructional designer. She was quick with it. But not everyone had an easy time. People must be digitally illiterate. Was it really true that some Gen Z students didn’t know how to use digital programs and didn

Welcome back to part 2 of RJ Thompson’s discussion. We continue to talk about digital literacy within students, but also within faculty and staff within RJ’s and John’s universities, and how they have been affected by the shift the pandemic had caused.  

People lost motivation and became monotoned on zoom? Low self esteem? Students had trouble using programs to adapt online classes? Did we have to change what we’re used to before? You can get a degree online and is it valid in today’s society? How useful is design actually in life? The pandemic was a nightmare to most people, but to RJ Thompson, it wasn’t actually so bad. He�

Welcome back to part 2 of Abby Guido’s conversation. We ended talking about how lucky we were to have the technology as advanced as it is when the pandemic started because as Abby said, “if it was 5 years before, we probably would not have been able to do what we were able to do.” Keep listening to find out where the conversation takes us from there.

2 weeks off from school turns into 2 years. What have we learned? How did we adapt? We can never get rid of education so zoom saved us around these tough times. But did students use it as an advantage? Students had to learn how to learn. The pandemic forced us to learn quickly.Were students struggling with how to use technologies? How did students cope through learning online? Were

This is not an episode as such, not really. It's an introduction to the idea behind the podcast. It kinda explains what this is all about.