Monday, 22 February 2016

Does it really matter how the Academy is Carried?

So far there are no principles and instructional governing teaching online and digital pedagogy. Nevertheless, the two articles are of interesting in trying to differentiate the two types of teaching method. I found it of no use to find distinct differences in ways of learning. The history of pedagogy however, reveals that leadership is at its core and is not limited to classroom practice and the institution. As a result, any kind of learning from my perspective can be said is pedagogical as long as it reflect some kind of learning principles and instruction governing it. For example, Power Point presentation should not have long sentences, but key words in a point form and 4 to 5 points per slide. However, online teaching have no dialogue to stimulate thinking and learning. In online teaching, the teacher prepare slide show with voice notes that cannot speak back to the receiver or learner, unless all five senses of learning are used. Some learners will like to have questions regarding the lesson given, but they might be depraved to do so especially if they don't have an email account or any social media network to pose the questions they have. In other ways online teaching in my point of view is bias, in that it favours a certain pattern of learning instead of using what is available to them and the teacher for effective learning. The use of online teaching, i feel that it also undermines the quality and creativeness of teachers because those with no passion and poor skills are likely to escape. Thus, not every teacher pay attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit. However, the good thing about online teaching is that lessons can be played over and over again.


Digital pedagogy on the other hand does not need to be wired, but creates a room for new learning methods and principles. Pedagogy can be described as learning and/ or methods. Its core is merely depended on the substrate for the reaction to occur. What do i mean about that? I mean learning occurs in the presence of a teacher to pose or ask questions to initiate discussion? Since learners are the ones giving answers, the conveyed knowledge is likely to last for a markedly brief time as the learning process will continue beyond the classroom through curiosity or acquiring knowledge from peers. Therefore, the aim of pedagogy is to cultivate knowledge that will assist learners to solve problems for the rest of their lives. This knowledge can be used in a work place or in academic research environment, etc.

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