The logical impossibility of Status QuoSix disconnects that demand a digital pedagogy

(or at least a good debate about it)Peter Bryant – London School of Economics

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

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 technologies

6. Student adoption moves faster than institutional adaptation

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).

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

And this needs to happen NOW!

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

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.

Questions?@PeterBryantHEp.j.bryant@lse.ac.uk – For the full paper, see my blog

http://www.peterbryant.org

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