Why use it?
The framework will help you determine whether your pedagogy meets the needs of today's students.
Also, it will help you understand whether any changes in your pedagogy are appropriate.
In the past decade, and particularly the past five years, there have been changes in students' learning needs, especially in the way they learn.
Students' learning is enhanced when they have enhanced capacity to connect to real-world contexts outside the classroom. This opens and extends the possibilities for learning in ways that are more relevant and participatory.
To meet these changes, our pedagogy needs to change from a knowledge-transmission model to one that enables students to find and evaluate information, and to construct new knowledge.
This fundamental change impacts on what, how, when and where we teach.
Why digital pedagogy?
Good pedagogy is about teaching strategies that achieve learning outcomes.
It requires us to fully understand students' needs and interests, and how they best learn. It also compels us to identify the best ways of determining what students have learned.
When we give students opportunities to learn in ways that suit them, we are showing an understanding of their needs, interests and strengths.
How is digital pedagogy different?
Digital pedagogy harnesses the opportunities presented by a range of technologies to enhance pedagogical practice, leading to what is described as a 'pedagogical advantage'.
This advantage helps create autonomous and independent lifelong learners. It does that by giving students access to a broader range of knowledge and ideas, by making the potential for thinking and learning more visible, and by leveraging student collaboration and engagement with the world outside the classroom.
These new and different ways of learning build on good practice and value-add to student opportunities and outcomes.
This is the essence of teaching in the 21st century.
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