Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Adaptive? Personalized? What does that mean? Here's a little rundown of some of the most common buzzwords we come across when covering educational technology and innovation.

You know that Educational Technology is quite the thing. You want to join those conversations in the staff room or at parents’ evening. But you’re not quite sure… what’s the difference between a MOOC and an OER. Adaptive learning or individualised learning? Trying to keep up can make you feel like the dunce in …

A new online guide defines some of the most commonly misunderstood terms in education reform.

Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked journal of learning, teaching, and technology that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses of technology and digital media in education.

It goes without saying that technology is changing education. Children’s brains are being rewired, universities are being threatened with extinction, and we will be in serious trouble if we ignore the transformative power of new technologies. We live in an information/knowledge economy where we are constantly connected to networks of information, our experiences become more and more mediated. It seems that technology changes everything, including education.

Or does it? It seems to me that so-called innovations attributed to technology in teaching and learning are mostly pedagogical strategies cloaked in digital media. Specifically, current trendy approaches that proclaim the transformative power of technology in education are really no more than misunderstandings. The term “approaches” I use liberally. Some practitioners would prefer their perspective of choice to be labeled a program, theory, or framework. This in itself is interesting, but beyond the scope of these reflections. If educational technology rhetoric is misleading, what lies beneath the language of innovation? - See more at: http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Plea_for_Pedagogy.html#sthash.CIlDKZRE.dpufIt