Day 2 Presentation Amy Collier Presentation: Critical Digital Fluency: Agency and Activism in Today’s Polluted Digital World http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/2017/09/15/amy-collier/ Open SUNY Summit 2018 - Annual conference for the SUNY online teaching and learning community of practice. https://commons.suny.edu/cotehub/ February 28 - March 2, 2018, SUNY Global Center, NY, NY. Conference website: http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/ Program: http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/about/program/ Recordings: http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/mediasite/ Materials: http://opensunysummit2018.edublogs.org/registration/materials/ Open SUNY Online Teaching: http://commons.suny.edu/cote/

1. CRITICAL
DIGITAL
FLUENCY
agency and activism in
today’s polluted digital world
dr. amy collier
middlebury
@amcollier

2. UNDER TRUMP, EDUCATION WILL BE A
SITE OF OVERT STRUGGLE OVER
CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS

5. …all liberating practice---which values the exercise
of will, of decision, of resistance, of choice, the role
of emotions, of feelings, of desires, of limits, the
importance of historic awareness, of an ethical
human presence in the world, and the
understanding of history as possibility and never as
determination---is substantively hopeful and, for this
reason, produces hope.”
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Indignation, p.24

6. WE MUST RETHINK
HOW & WHAT WE ARE TEACHING

10. WE MUST
REBUILD TRUST

11. THE GOAL OF MIS/DISINFORMATION AND
POLARIZATION IS THE EROSION OF TRUST

12. @HOLDEN
WEBLITERACY.PRESSBOOKS.COM

13. DIGIPO.IO/WIKI

16. WE MUST HOLD
PEOPLE, PLATFORMS, &
INSTITUTIONS ACCOUNTABLE

18. “THIS FELTAND FUNCTIONED LIKE FREEDOM, BUT
IT WAS ALWAYS A COMMERCIAL SIMULATION.”

19. walled gardens?

20. Do our technologies or our stories work in the interest of justice
and equity? Or, rather, have we adopted technologies for
teaching and learning that are much more aligned with that
military mission of command and control? The mission of the
military. The mission of the church. The mission of the
university.
Audrey Watters, Ed Tech in a Time of Trump

21. “We have built the extractive technology to track students
minutely.We can continue to invest in improving its efficiency
and extending its range.We can boast and promise and
envision the seamless world in which human gesture is all the
window we need into human thought.We can forget everything
we know about the history of surveillance and social
vulnerability.
Or like the other mining industries in our world economy, we
can start to think ahead to the risks and consequences of
carrying on like this.This future is not inevitable, and our
concerns are not naïve…Counting students in and out of
lecture theatres is not trying to improve student life or learning.
It’s searching for solutions that will contain the labour cost of
actually listening to students about why they come to lectures,
or don’t.”
Kate Bowles, Day-to-day
Photo by Jordan McQueen on Unsplash

23. NEUTRALITY IS IMMORAL“…there can be no such thing as neutrality. It’s a code word for the
existing system…Neutrality is just following the crowd. Neutrality is
being just what the system asks us to be. Neutrality, in other words,
was an immoral act…It was to me a refusal to oppose injustice or
to take sides that are unpopular. It’s an excuse, in other words.”
(Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking, p. 102)

24. “THIS FELTAND FUNCTIONED LIKE FREEDOM, BUT
IT WAS ALWAYS A COMMERCIAL SIMULATION.”

25. EDUCATION IS A PRACTICE OF FREEDOM

26. @amcollier
dlinq.middcreate.net