Date(s): Thursday, May 15
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: : Abbotsford Campus, K180

Visiting Scholar Talk: “Classroom Incivility Going Viral on Social Media: One Professor’s Encounters”

About the talk: Historians recognize the need to teach about the history and contemporary impacts of residential schools in Canada. Similarly, we know now that the opportunity to learn about the schools exists outside classrooms. In my talk, I draw from a special issue on social media and educational foundations to show how applications such as Instagram and X have an impact on teaching in the standard classroom. The concept of classroom civility, which was originally a pedagogical understanding in the conventional classroom, informs how one can understand how conflicts in class can continue in the digital realm. In this case, the conflict involved an assignment on residential schooling and reaction to it on X and Instagram. I share lessons in learning for how one can address incidents of classroom incivility related to instruction on residential schools that occur on social media.

The talk is based on the special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jcie/index.php/jcie

For more info email historyinfo@ufv.ca