Well-written, provocative article about the importance of rolling your sleeves up and doing the real work of teaching.
Good content is a starting point. It can be great support for what you do. But as always, Real Teachers are what matter.
If we take ourselves out of that dialogue, out of the give and take of draft and response and revision, then we are no longer teachers but content providers. Well-designed assignments and curricula are important. But they are only the very start of good teaching. A textbook is not a course. And I don’t see how a MOOC can be much more than a digitized textbook.
Source: Joseph Harris: Teaching ‘By Hand’ in a Digital Age – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education