An Urgency of Teachers Quotes

“When adopting new platforms, we shouldn’t invest in or cede control to for-profit companies more interested in profit than education. And, when our institutions (or teachers) make unethical choices, we must (if we are able) find ways to say “no.” In”
― Jesse Stommel, An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy

“Freire writes, “Authentic education is not carried on by ‘A’ for ‘B’ or by ‘A’ about ‘B,’ but rather by ‘A’ with ‘B’.” It is through this impatient dialogue, and the implicit collaboration within it, that Critical Pedagogy finds its impetus toward change.”
― Jesse Stommel, An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy

“that educators and students alike have found themselves more and more flummoxed by a system that values assessment over engagement, learning management over discovery, content over community, outcomes over epiphanies. Education has misrepresented itself as objective, quantifiable, apolitical.”
― Jesse Stommel, An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy