Two weeks ago today, we had to put our dog to sleep. My dog. Sam. Sam was my...


Do not track (an #OLCInnovate plea) – updated 4/30/18
At the OLC Innovate conference—a conference where I was presenting with Adam Croom about the need to be...

This is the song when the sun sets
I. Song Every morning as I’m waking up, my brain picks a song and turns it up to...

Hey fam—saw you facebooking…
…and I was wondering… Would you be willing to stop sharing terrible stuff? I’m not even talking about...

Platforms in education: A need for criticality and hope
(Notes from my talk at the Council on Independent Colleges / ARTSTOR Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and...

Digital Sanctuary article in Educause Review
My article on Digital Sanctuary has been published as part of the New Horizons series of Educause Review....

Locks on our bridges: Critical and generative lenses on open education
[These are my notes from a keynote I gave at Plymouth State University on June 1, 2017, as...

Hidden immigrants & belonging: What do these mean for Domains?
Domains 17 just ended and my brain is brimming with ideas and questions. I need to write, to process,...
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Reclaiming impact: Not-yetness as a lens for resisting de-complexification [#InnovateOSU]
[Notes from my talk at The Ohio State University 2017 Innovate conference, May 16, 2017] Impact. Defined as:...

Familiarity
This post may start and end in a state of confusion. I’m going to fray several threads: My 5-year Jazzercise anniversary. A...

“it should be necessary to start”: Critical digital pedagogy in troubled political times
[speaking notes from my talk at the University of Edinburgh in February 2017] I want to say first...
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Digital embodiment: Constructing and deconstructing the body [Part 3]
Part 1 || Part 2 Now, I promised you two stories. The second, I very uncreatively called “digital...
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Digital embodiment: Constructing and deconstructing the body [Part 2]
[Notes and resources from my recent talk at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey, as part...
![Digital embodiment: Constructing and deconstructing the body [Part 1]](http://redpincushion.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/n_qgc7hxeoq-jonathan-pendleton-150x150.jpg)
Digital embodiment: Constructing and deconstructing the body [Part 1]
[Notes and resources from my recent talk at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey, as part...

One year on the AIP/Paleo diet (+ favorite recipes)
When I was a teenager, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition known as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. I could...

Chapter 3 WMTRBW #HortonFreire #OpenEd16. See also: The immorality of service organizations
Leadership: I love it, and it’s heart breaking. I said this to Sonja in a meeting recently and I have...

We Make The Road by Walking: Ch 1-2 #HortonFreire
[This post is pretty personal and it may offend some people. I’m sorry about that. Please know that...

Not waving, but drowning
by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further...

Love / resistance
[I made a version of these statements in last week’s Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexander. I am...

The locks on our bridges: Critical instructional design (#OpenEd16 presentation)
This excerpt is from my talk with Sean Michael Morris and Amy Slay at Open Education 2016 about...