Instructors should choose the teaching strategy that works for them rather than accepting that “robots are the victors,” writes Brad East (Abilene Christian University). East describes an approach he calls “Luddite pedagogy” where faculty reclaim agency by “[refusing] to accept that technology has rendered our role moot.” The author explains that his courses—which eliminate screens within the classroom and require students to complete handwritten assignments in class—demonstrate how students benefit from instructors who choose how to teach based on their own experience, training, and judgement. “Teachers, in short, don’t have to do the latest technology’s bidding,” writes the author. “Teachers still have agency.”
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