We are living in a world where technology is changing things in a dramatic way. However, not only is this impact largely unnoticed in schools and universities, but where it is being used it is failing. This presentation presents key concepts around a new digital pedagogy that explores using concepts such as conversation, creation, correcting and chaos as devices to more effectively engage learning. For a podcast of this presentation visit www.teachernology.com. The presentation is based on research conducted for a PhD that explored learning in a Facebook environment. The presentation challenges our central industrial-based paradigm of learning and suggests we adopt a new organic paradigm. Building on this the presentation then identifies key principles of this new paradigm and finally the start of a new digital pedagogy. This pedagogy shifts from content to conversation, from correct to correcting, from consumption to creation, from control to chaos.

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A Digital Pedagogy for Teachers
Dr. Craig Blewett

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The Big
Question
Do You Trust Technology?

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Use Your Tech!

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You think tech is great…then
The Ultimate Question
The meaning of life the universe and everything is…
• Too long to answer here
• No idea
• I know but I’m not saying
• 42
• Lorem Ipsum
Go To >>> j.mp/mytestpoll

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i-TEST

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A World of Change?
The Myth

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BIG CHANGE!
Intel’s Internet Minute

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Is it really
Big Change?

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1800s
School Office

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1910s
School Office

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1920s
School Office

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1930s
School Office

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1940s
School Office

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1950s
School Office

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1960s
School Office

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1970s
School Office

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1980s
School Office

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1990s
School Office

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TODAY
School Office

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BUT…We Are Using Tech!

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“There is evidence that technology has
not impacted the educational
system…The main problem
is…(introducing) technology without
considering the pedagogical practices that
are associated to produce learning.” (Prof.
Nussbaum)

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Ctrl + C
Ctrl + V
The Myth of Change
OUR BIG MISTAKE

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Copy Paste

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Copy Paste

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Copy Paste

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Copy Paste

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Copy Paste

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Skeuomorphism
Keeping the form of the old
even though it has no function in the new

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Skeuomorphism – The Danger
Form of the old can restrict the function of the new!
How do you read an e-book?
How do you read a webpage?

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Skeuomorphism – The Danger
Form of the old can restrict the function of the new!
How do you read an e-book?
How do you read a webpage?

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Our Guides

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How should we use Tech to Teach?
In search of answers…

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Who is last to discover water?
I don’t know who discovered water, but I’m pretty sure it
wasn’t a fish” (Marshall McLuhan)

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20+ years swimming in the water
totally confused until…

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Our Guides

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Learning in a Facebook environment: The writing is
on the wall
Over a billion hands!

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Beyond Copy/Paste:
Implementing New Paradigms

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Beyond Copy/Paste
Future School, France 1901

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Changing Perspective

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Their Perspective

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Our Perspective
Ken Robinson – Changing Educational Paradigms

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Changing Paradigms - Ken Robinson

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INDUSTRIAL PARADIGM

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The Biggest Impacts on Teaching?
Socratic Didactic
Socratic 2.0

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Organic
Paradigm
An Organic Paradigm
Organic:
- Biology: "pertaining to or derived from
living organisms”
- Food: "grown in an environment free
from artificial agrichemicals”
- Sociology: "voluntary engagements in
complex interdepencies for mutual
benefit”
- Learning: “an environment built around
- people (living organisms)
interacting in a space that is
- free from "artificial" (to their
experience) restrictions,
- where the types of engagements
are largely voluntary, as opposed to
teleological/determined, and
learning arises from complex
interactions for mutual benefit.”

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Principles
Learner
Centric
Organic
Paradigm
“The formation of power
and the formation of
knowledge compose an
indissoluble unity”
(Habermas (1987), p.
272).

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Pedagogies
Principles
Learner
Centric
Organic
Paradigm
Online Education – Towards New Pedagogies

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Consumption…

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To Creation

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Pedagogies
Principles
Learner
Centric
Organic
Paradigm
Digital Pedagogy

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Correct…

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To Correcting

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Pedagogies
Principles
Learner
Centric
Organic
Paradigm
Digital Pedagogy

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Content…

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To Conversation

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Pedagogies
Principles
Learner
Centric
Organic
Paradigm
Digital Pedagogy
“The teacher must intentionally cause enough chaos to
motivate the student to reorganise” Doll (1986) (p. 15)

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Control…

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To Chaos
Dan Meyer at TEDxNYED

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ASK…SEEK…KNOCK
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the
door will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7)

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The Impact of New Approaches?

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The Impact of New Approaches?
Chaos
Confusion
Conflict
Complaints

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Is that good?
The BIG C
CONCETRATION

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No Chaos, Confusion, Conflict, Complaints

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Conclusion

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Using the TASC framework as a thinking
structure you could, for example, re-assess
and re-think your digital pedagogy...
- Identify - What is the task I am trying to
perform - let's say it is developing an
understanding of Dadism in art students.
- Generate - Is there another way I can teach
them this? How could they use create rather
than consume. Maybe make a video, collate
articles together, other?
- Decide - Which is the best idea - Make a
video because...
- Implement - Let's do it.... Set task where
they create a YouTube video using...
Using TASC to Rethink Your Pedagogy

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Technology our ruin
• “Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how to write on a
slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can’t clean a slate
properly. What will they do when they run out of paper?”
– (Principal’s Publication, 1815)
• “Students today depend too much on ink. They don’t know how to use a knife to
sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.”
– (Journal of the National Association of Teachers, 1907)
• “Students today depend on store bought ink. They don’t know how to make their
own. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write words or ciphers until
their next trip to the settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern education.”
– (Rural American Teacher, 1928)
• “Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in our country. Students use these
devices then throw them away. The American values of thrift and frugality are being
discarded. Businesses and banks will never allow such expensive luxuries.”
– (Federal Teachers, 1950)

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• “Students today depend on cell phones too much”
– (School Principal Association, 2011)
• “Students today depend too much on Facebook.
Facebook will never replace the classroom.”
– (Journal of Traditional Lecturers, 2010)
• “Students today don’t know how to hand write notes.
This is a sad commentary on modern education.”
– (Modern Teacher, 2011)
• “iPads will be the ruin of education in our country.
Schools will never allow such expensive luxuries.” (School
Journal, 2010)
Technology our ruin

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The Principle

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Erasing the
engraving
“Countless pixels were spilled
during The Great UI Flattening of
2013–2014…Flat design…didn’t
just kill skeuomorphism…it danced
on its grave and then erased every
last trace of beveling, shadow, and
granite texture from the
headstone.”
https://medium.com/@intercom/has-visual-design-fallen-flat-a155cb6a5cda

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You can NEVER erase the Teacher
T EACHERnol ogy

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Thank You
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T EACHERnol ogyfrom chalk to click – inciting a teaching with tech revolution
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