THUAS, Den Haag, NL
2021-04-22
dear Teams user,
from having computers in classrooms to trying to have classrooms in
computers, the spaces of education seem to have shifted in
more-than-spatial dimensions. Is this a temporary shift or a persistent
shift of temporality, sense and presence? What types of pedagogies are
being affected and being brought into effect by the software platforms
we are learning to inhabit?
Dodging notifications and slipping through schedules as effortlessly as
a ‘terms and conditions’ update, the research group for philosophy and
professional practice proposes an afternoon of bringing joint attention
to these questions. As an aid to help us address these and other related
questions, we are inviting Martino Morandi who has been developing
Monday Readings, a format for close-reading software as/and text.
In particular, we will look into what this means for the realm of
education, how certain software platforms silently shape new automatisms
and forms of pedagogy, as well as critiques, potential alternatives and
visions.
The session is open to lecturers, researchers, administration and IT
staff, who can spend an afternoon actively engaged with the topic
through close readings, practical exercises and discussions about, on
and in Microsoft Teams.
Alternating with hands-on moments, we will read together a few short
texts that critically engage with notions of ‘evaluation’ and
‘meritocracy’ in educational environments, two tenets that are being
radically re-organized in their platformized manifestations.