In Search of a Pedagogy of Abundance: Preparing Students for an Uncertain Future #ShrugCon

July 16th-17th, 2024
ShrugCon was about how we learn and teach in a world of uncertainty. It was a series of facilitated, community-led, discussions about uncertainty

This was a super cool conference. I hope you got a chance to attend and enjoy it.

July 16th, 2024

9:30 am #ShrugCon Introduction – Embracing Uncertainty as a Pedagogy of Abundance – Dave Cormier

10:00 am “Wicked Problems & Wicked problems from an Indigenous perspective”
Alexandra Mihai and Russell Nahdee

11:00 am “Uncertainty in curriculum design”
Audrey Fried and Mo Jafar

1:00 pm “Scholarship and scholars”
Anne-Marie Scott and Josephine Sciortino

2:00 pm “Uncertainty and work” Lena Patterson and Vistasps Karbhari

6:00 pm “Entanglement and dissonance”
Tim Fawns and Kate Bowles

July 17th, 2024

9:30 am July 16th Recap!

10:00 am “Campus partnerships for facing uncertainty”
Jennie Blake & Joe Murphy and Robin Hart Ruthenbeck

Noon “Care, Compassion and Uncertainty”
Lydia Watson and Maha Bali

1:00 pm “Uncertainty in diversity and difference”
Ariadne Jevnikar & Stephanie Johnston

2:00 pm “Uncertainty in preparing students for the workforce” Noah Arney and Natalia Bussard

3:00 pm “Gen-X technologists yell at Cloud.”
Apostolos (AK) Koutropoulos and Lee Skallerup Bessette

Why is the hashtag #ShrugCon?

Committing to uncertainty in education is about getting comfortable with not having the right answer, about not necessarily knowing what to do next. We don’t mean the shrug dismissively, but inclusively. As an invitation to be uncertain with us.

Poster presentations

We’ve received some interesting thoughts so far

Miriam Reynoldson

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Wilde uncertainty: on knowing where we are going

Sidney Shapiro, PhD

Assistant Professor, Business Analytics, University of Lethbridge

AI Uncertainty

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Conference thoughts

Here are some of the people who presented at the conference…

Dave Cormier

Learning Specialist, University of Windsor
Dave will be doing a conference intro two weeks before the conference and will be the primary facilitator for conversations.