Digital pedagogy unplugged

What are the reasons for digital pedagogy to become unplugged? Some of the main points that stand out for me from this article is that classrooms have become bogged down by using electronic equipment in uncreative ways, it in other words it has become more digital than pedagogical. Also another point to be made is that students seem to learn best when Q&A happens and person to person discussions occur. The article uses the term Edu-hacking and describes that is when unfamiliar and alien perspectives are introduced on representations of educational protocols. This article seems aimed in terms of Edu-hacking so that we view digital pedagogy in a whole new light.

It gives several examples of how digital pedagogy can become unplugged but still remain in the digital age. Some of the examples are by doing labor intensive work in order to understand how digital and analogue matching might work if you were to use a search engine.  Another example is the term “Teaching Naked”, whereby the author does not mean literally to teach naked but to see how can we not bore our class to death by showing them lots of power point slides and they just have to take it all in but, to actually involve the class through Q&A and person to person discussions. In another section the lecturer does not entirely separate the digital from non-digital in the course but, instead devotes a day to lecturing where the students all see the text they are working with for the first time. This brings about that haptic engagement with the subject that he argues is critical to learning.

I there a place for digital pedagogy? Of course by moving the digital of pedagogy to the periphery of the classroom namely the students using it together amongst students in creative ways to interact with the subject matter but, leaving the classroom unplugged one can than indeed see the place for digital pedagogy in today’s age.