Digital Pedagogy

So, my initial impression of this class was one of excitement, but then the workload kicked in. And as someone who always tries to find the easiest way of accomplishing a task, I endeavoured to do the same here. Trying to skim read the article proved difficult and when I started to read the article for real, I realised how interesting it was.

My main point of interest was the fact that people want to move away from the norm, create a new style of learning. The second was that it wasn't just staying as an interest and people were engaging in a discussion to make this work (I say people because of all the citation used, damn I wish I had referencing skills like this article). But when I say this article is interesting I must attest to the fact that it is somewhat saddening. Going digital means leaving reality. Yes, what the students would then learn is still reality, but how far removed from the subject matter would they be? I guess all the dystopian literature comes back to haunt me when technology advances, and I feel a little as if Big Brother is watching me.

Luckily the article did lay to rest some concerns I had, one being that the teacher is removed from the equation. As the article ends it stats that to start we need to "pull the plug" and even in the bible it says that sometimes it takes a difficult situation to make you change your ways, and so it is in non-biblical terms to. Education need to always keep moving forward as Walt Disney always said.

 

So to sum up a long article with a measly blog, I think it would be a positive direction to send education into. It is progressive, albeit somewhat 1984 George Orwell-esk.