Digital pedagogy is not a dancing monkey, when did we start talking about a zoo?

Digital pedagogy is not a dancing monkey, when did we start talking about a zoo?

It won’t be wrong to assume that most people think that digital pedagogy and online teaching is the same thing. Most people would be wrong. The difference between the two is that digital pedagogy is a learning opportunity between a teacher and their student while online teaching is just giving information over.

Not every teacher is a pedagogue, that means that there are lots of ways to teach your students for example black bored teaching. Pedagogy is a scholarship unto itself, a study of learning and the many ways it is fueled wherever learning is poised to occur. But in the same breath, you can not outsource digital pedagogy. As the text explained digital pedagogy is not a path through the woods but in fact is is your compass. 

There is no set definition for pedagogy because it is so responsive by nature. A little extract form the text that really caught my eye was an quote from the film Metropolis which says "slaves to a machine becoming food for the machine. The danger in fetishizing machines is that we become subject to them. But turning away in the face of the digital will lead to much the same fate. Rather, we need to handle our technologies roughly - to think critically about our tools, how we use them, and who has access to them."

That is how I feel about digital pedagogy, we should not over use it because then it will lose its effectiveness. But we must not be scared of it either. We must use it to enhance the learning experience for our students.

Digital pedogogue teaching starts with asking questions, this is the reason why it is so important. It reminds us that teaching and education is a mystery that is worth exploring.