Remi Kalir talks about igniting our imagination in digital learning and pedagogy on episode 178 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Play is not a synonym for fun.
—Remi Kalir

Our ability to change our minds … is very important.
—Remi Kalir

Just because a research article has been finished and put out there … doesn’t mean the conversation is over.
—Remi Kalir

Resources Mentioned

• On Being: Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness, with Ellen Langer
• Remi’s recent keynote about leadership, equity and creativity for Metropolitan State University’s 2017 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium
• Theatre of the Oppressed
• Digital Pedagogy Lab
• ThinqStudio at the University of Colorado Denver
• Episode 75 of the Very Bad Wizards podcast
• “Overconfidence is really associated with a failure of imagination. When you cannot imagine an alternative to your belief, you are convinced that your belief is true.” – Daniel Kahneman
• Thinking, Fast and Slow* by Daniel Kahneman  
• On Being: Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other, with Daniel Kahneman
• Ignorance: How it Drives Science* by Stuart Firestein
• Mosaic Web Browser
• Hypothes.is
• Educator Innovator
• Marginal Syllabus
• Writing Our Civic Futures
• Remi’s Research: Educator Learning and Open Web Annotation

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