Tony Ryan – Digital Pedagogy
Tony’s session on Digital pedagogies started with an interesting entry using People Bingo.
He drew up a 3 x 3 grid on a slide with 9 questions. These included:
- do you have a 2nd life avatar (yes)
- do you have a video of yourself on youtube
- do you have a blog etc…
This is a very interesting icebreaker and also a way of collecting and measuring the technical fluency of the audience.
This is a very interactive session with lots of delegate involvement. Another interesting tool was the clock. at 12 oclock, 3, 6 and 9. For each of the time you needed a partner. These will be you discussion partners for later in the session. Again another good icebreaker.
The big 4 learning support framework. These are the four elements that make up education
- curriculum
- pedagogy
- assessment
- reporting
These things are going to change and by 2012, Tony has included “learning spaces”.He talks about Digital Pedagogies in 21st Century. He believes that the three key approaches are:
- Constructivist
- Meta-cognitivist
- Connectivist (See George Siemens Connectivist Blog – www.connectivism.ca)
An interesting hand out was a matrix of web 2.0 tools matched with “key competencies” or Digital pedagogies. Some of these were the 4 pedagogies broken down into sub categories and these are matched to web 2.0 technologies or approaches:
1. Intellectual Quality
- Higher order thinking
- deep Knowledge
- deep understanding
- substantive converstation
- etc
2. Recognition of difference
- cultural knowledge
- inclusivemess
- narrative
- group identity
- active citizenship
3. Supportive classroom environment
- student direction
- social support
- academic engagement
- etc
4. Connectedness
- knowledge integration
- background knowledge
- connectedness to the world
- problem solving curriculum
Andrew from St Joesph’s in Fielding matched the 4 elements of education to planning. Its a rather neat analogy.
Planning = What + How + Why + Who
Curriculum + Pedagogy + Assessment + Reporting
