The logical impossibility of Status Quo
Six disconnects that demand a digital pedagogy (or at least a good debate about it)
Peter Bryant – London School of Economics, UK@peterbryantHE
The ‘scary’ status quo1. Learners arriving at university are already e-learners 2. 21st century skills for a technology driven society3. There is no real and online world…there is just the world4. Technology is not a class or category. It is a means, a society changing and
generation shaping means5. Not all students are experts in all technologies6. Student adoption moves faster than institutional adaptation
We have reached a tipping point…
1. Institutional resistance to change (potential)2. Pedagogy for the 20th (19th?) century3. Critical shifts in the way information is
acquired and applied4. Student resistance to our use of technology
Modern pedagogy is often…
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Disconnects of expectation, practice and outcome
There is a need to have a debate about the way we teach, what students are learning and how we assess
Disconnect #1What is knowledge and where do we find it?
Disconnect #2What is the purpose of university?
Disconnect #3Jobs today/Jobs tomorrow
Disconnect #4 Question/Answer
Disconnect #5 The ubiquity of technology
Disconnect #6 Speaking in tongues
Each generation prides itself on the fact that we are different to our parents…
well guess what?
Our pedagogical approach may be seen by learners as akin to watching your mum trying to twerk at your 18th birthday
party (or finding your granny on Tinder).
What does adigital pedagogy look like?
ELVSS and iCOLLAB projects at University of Salford@heloukee
Ultimate goal - develop new ways of seeing and learning through collaborative study of internet technologies and emerging forms of digital creativity, learning from one anothers’ disciplinary perspectives and cultures.
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