(Un)mapping the terrain

 

Many people still think of digital pedagogy as the use of electronics in the classroom, but this is in actual fact not the true. The word Digital in digital pedagogy actually refers to any and all material and resources used in education to forward teaching. I like the definition for digital pedagogy by Croxall and Koh, which states that  “digital pedagogy is the use of electronic elements to enhance or to change the experience of education”. Digital pedagogy needs to be seen as the simplest way that can be made use of to influence teaching and learning. Digital pedagogy need to be seen as a way to enhance learning and not as an obstruction. It involves both the learner and the teacher and in sum cases the learner can represent the teacher.

Then there is the highly incorrect notion that some people think that online teaching and Digital pedagogy is the same thing, wrong!!!!
 When you consider online teaching than you think about a webcam and a teacher on the other side, or you just receive assessment online and interact with a teacher via email, Digital Pedagogy is much more than this, as I said previously, its is all resources that can be utilized, whether it is paper or electronics and or books, this is al ways of digital Pedagogy, because it can be used to enhance the learning experience, those resource that makes learning happen.

Another myth is that because I using electronics this makes me a digital pedagogue. This incorrect because just because you use fancy tools to get the attention of the learners, it does not mean that any learning is actually taking place. As Michael Morris put it “ Pedagogy concerns itself with the instantaneous, momentary, vital exchange that takes place on order for learning to happen”.  

I think that people need to be educated about what Digital pedagogy really entail in all its facets.

Digital Pedagogy unplugged

So I am sitting with two problems, this is my first time blogging so I am not sure if  I am doing this write and secondly I not sure what I just understood from the paper Digital Pedagogy Unplugged by Paul Fyfe that I just read.

So here is my thoughts on what I think I understood  from the paper (#confusedfordays)…???

I fully agree with the part about teaching naked and the term flip class. This year is my first encounter with the term flipped class room and I totally agree with the concept, why wasn’t I told about this earlier?? I mean this would have my life as an undergrad so much easier, I would have been a much better critical thinker by now. I would have meant an end to boring power point slides that seemed like it never stopped.

And I personally enjoy it much more when the lecturer still uses the old black board, and I also came to realise that I remember much better this ways and it was always funny to see the drawing of the lecturers compared to the fancy pictures that they put on the slide. So maybe Digital Pedagogy needs to be unplugged from time to time??

But don’t get me wrong I love technology as much as the next guy/girl, and think its wonderful how it has opened our world to so many possibilities, but all I am saying is to not forget that there where great ways of teaching before the invasion of technology.

Just think how awesome it would be to fuse, what was great before with what is great now.

So not sure if what I had to say, had anything to do with Digital pedagogy, but that’s what I had to say about that…….