The Digital Pedagogue

The Digital Pedagogue…

Dear Mr Fyfe and lecturer, I will put this as bluntly as I please… I hated the wonderfully written piece on Digital Pedagogy and all its surrounding debates. Most people I know, myself included, don’t have the time or resources to help visionaries like Stephen Ramsay or Brad Pasanek combat the actual frightening revelation of students losing their practical, one could almost say social aspect of learning. Electronics and the Microsoft based tools are here to stay and that happened before I even was a twinkle in someone’s eye. Here’s my dilemma, why should I give a sh!t about lost creativity when I have no children. True I am being an @$$, but let me put it this way, because I am starting to feel hungry. Food will represent educational knowledge, our crippling methods of digital pedagogy will represent me ordering the food, going to get the food strikes the balance between the methods of Stephen and Panasek, to strive towards a less technological method of teaching “DH”. Why should I get into my parents car and drive all the way to my local take-out joint, use petrol, get stuck in traffic and wait in line to order?  When I can just use my mom’s airtime and order the food, free delivery… I don’t have to tip. So why should major companies re-utilize their program tools, just because a few out of the box thinkers demand our digital humanities program become less technological? The billionaire company owners only think of profit and major change, especially good change comes at a high cost. I do agree with Mr Fyfe, too many slide shows wreck the brain. I got power point slide shows and pdf’s pouring out my sensitive bits. But I choose the strict, one-way method of digital pedagogy as it is. Like the billionaire company owner, change is not what I am looking for, it wouldn’t be cost efficient. Everybody needs /wants efficient, affective education. Let’s just consider it, the educational system might be rigged. People just don’t care enough about these things, strict parents, teachers and now these strict digital educational programs. The door bel rang, must be my take-out.