Pedagogy focuses on learning and how it is prompted or initiated, it has its own sense of time and mindfulness, with improvisation being encouraged. Why then, are so many educators turning into robots? If leadership constitutes the core of pedagogy, does this not mean that learning is not confined to the classroom? Surely educators should be able to incorporate this new digital pedagogy into their previous approaches? Educators should be educated in ways of incorporating the electronic elements that have become so important in our society, with ways of teaching that have proven to be successful.
It is extremely important that educators learn to identify and accommodate the various capabilities of their learners and to employ the appropriate teaching approaches. Digital Pedagogy plays a huge part in this because of its willingness to improvise and to respond to new environments and can be defined as "[t]he use of electronic elements to enhance or to change the experience of education."
Just because you teach online, doesn't give you the right to the title of "Digital Pedagogue". To have this honour bestowed upon you, you have to weigh up your options and invite learners to take an active role in networked learning. You need to help learners to engage with the world. How many of you have sat in a class where all the teacher has done is put slides up, or used a projector to display the answers to activities? How often have you had to sit in silence for 45min and copy these answers into your book without so much as an explanation? How can this be described as teaching?
It's true that we need to "rethink power relations between students and teachers" - we never stop learning, we are "perpetual learners", so why should someone who's had more time to learn be given so much authority? Teachers should be on an almost equal footing with their students/learners, guiding them through the learning process (which actually depends on such collaboration for its success).
