TikTok Pedagogy: Teaching Philosophy in 60 Seconds or Less

"I teach philosophy on TikTok, perhaps to the surprise of some colleagues in the discipline (who haven’t met me), and to parts of the internet. The core skeptical question I’m most often asked (or, at least, the question that’s at least behind the questions I’m actually asked), is whether it’s possible to teach philosophy in 60 seconds or less. I’m familiar with this question. Answering it experimentally is the reason I started making TikTok videos. Within 30 days of beginning the experiment, I’d answered it in the affirmative to my satisfaction. Here, I’d like to reflectively reconstruct why I think this is the case." - Paul Blaschko [from the article]

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TikTok Pedagogy: Teaching Philosophy in 60 Seconds or Less

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2022-11-03

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2022-06-29

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"I teach philosophy on TikTok, perhaps to the surprise of some colleagues in the discipline (who haven’t met me), and to parts of the internet. The core skeptical question I’m most often asked (or, at least, the question that’s at least behind the questions I’m actually asked), is whether it’s possible to teach philosophy in 60 seconds or less. I’m familiar with this question. Answering it experimentally is the reason I started making TikTok videos. Within 30 days of beginning the experiment, I’d answered it in the affirmative to my satisfaction. Here, I’d like to reflectively reconstruct why I think this is the case." - Paul Blaschko [from the article]

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