When pedagogy should not be the driver
Posted on: July 26, 2012
I was not able to chat at #edsg this week so I reviewed what my Twitter search found. This week’s topic:
#EdSG topic tonight: Teaching Innovation is about More Than iPads in the Classroom #edtech #edchat See you in an hour!—
Educate Singapore (@Ed_SG) July 24, 2012
As expected, folks rightly pointed out:
#edsg My humble view : Pedagogy should be the driver . It is not the technology.—
(@engrg1) July 24, 2012
That is a principle I advocate too. But there are exceptions. By that I do not mean what two others highlighted:
". . . technology is helping to drive a pedagogical change. . ." #edsg—
chester (@redokay) July 24, 2012
@shamsensei Frankly it's sometimes tools before pedagogy for the geeks who loves to experiment! Like us
#edsg—
Kwan Tuck Soon (@tucksoon) July 24, 2012
There are times when pedagogy should not lead technology. Pedagogy should not be the driver when it is didactic, outdated, or irrelevant.
If that sort of pedagogy rules, then technology use is not transformative. The medium changes but the method does not. Worst of all, it sends a message or establishes a model that that is what technology use is like.
