After two Digital Toolcrib episodes, Chad and I let this fall off the side of our desks and then people actually asked us when we were going to do more episodes! It’s a smash hit. In response to these 2-3 viewers, Chad and I have recorded three additional episodes of the Digital Toolcrib and two of them feature special guests which makes them a lot more engaging, exciting, and practical.
Barriers Facing Trades & Educational Development
Chad and Jason talk candidly about how the difficulties facing trades education and some of the barriers involved in providing educational development to trades instructors, including how the word pedagogy frightens the horses and various other forms of misunderstanding and intimidation. The dialogue hopefully identifies some ways to break down these barriers so trades faculty and educational developers can talk the same language of student success.
Reflective Journaling in Carpentry?
Medicine Hat College’s carpentry instructor Paul Schaan discusses why and how he implemented reflected journaling in Carpentry, including how it teaches the whole person and increases connection between faculty and students.
Backwards Design in the Trades
In this episode, Chad Flinn and Jason Openo talk with Dr. Sally Vinden of Vancouver Island University. Sally is lead author of Strengthening Digital Teaching & Learning for Trades, Vocational, Education and Training Practitioners, and she received BCcampus’s Award for Excellence in Open Education (2020). The episode discusses how backwards design can be used to ensure competencies are taught and assessed within trades contexts.