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True pedagogy

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Pedagogy is not about directing children. In its absolute form, pedagogy is not just about teaching. In the truest sense, teaching is just one element of pedagogy and not the entire story. In the truest sense, teaching is just one element of pedagogy and not the entire story. What does this mean for teachers today?

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Assessment in the digital age

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The teacher's role is to create or facilitate the environments, content and dialogue that optimises the student's activities. The table above helps to simplify the complexity somewhat, and provides educators with models that helpfully describe alternative approaches to pedagogy. JISC (2017) Effective Assessment in the Digital Age.

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The big switch

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What happens when we flip the roles as well? If you subscribe to a kind of pedagogy where you believe that facilitating learning is more effective than direct instruction, you will probably recognise the potential. Pedagogy is (or really should be) about creating spaces and opportunities that are conducive to good learning.

Pedagogy 101
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Flipping the teacher

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Flipping teachers is about swapping roles. For centuries, innovative teachers have been trying to find other more effective methods of pedagogy that can take the place of lecturing and instruction. It can be in the form of a video, or presentation, or role play, or even a blues song (be creative). Unported License.

Pedagogy 111
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The power of love

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In my two most recent posts I considered the role love plays in education. It is this kind of love that we experience working in a great team, or involving ourselves in a club or association, and it is an essential ingredient in effective collaborative learning. delivered to my final year primary education students. Unported License.

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Shifting sands

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Such approaches to pedagogy were rooted in the behaviourist model of psychology that privileged expert knowledge and formalised its transmission to novices. Someone once remarked that the lecture is the most effective way to transfer a lecturer''s notes into a student''s notes without having to pass through two minds first.

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The survival of Higher Education (5): Recommendations

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Recommendations Ultimately, to ensure that technologies are successfully adopted, institutions need to demonstrate that each is relevant and can be used effectively to support, enhance and extend learning beyond what is currently possible. Change however, comes with a price, usually in human cost. Unported License.