Digital Delights - Digital Tribes

Traditional pedagogy looks at the inputs viz, teaching and content.- you have taught them.

New pedagogies looks at the outputs - did they learn?

In the former, usually the inputs are measured, viz content quality and teaching quality. the long standing belief is that if these were done well, the (ALL) students WILL learn! However, the normal bell curve proves otherwise:(

In the latter, the key is recognised - did the students learn? In this day, due to the democratization of content of the internet, many students are become self-directed and group-collaborated in their learning. The are BETTER content on the Internet than their teacher teaching (think Khan Academy, as an example, as with some MOOCs, OER, OCW, etc).

There arise a need to re-think the role of teachers, from an instructor to that of a faciliator and a curator (like on scoop.it), from instructivist to constructivisit/connectivist roles.