Blog 7 Hybrid Pedagogy

http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Peer_to_Peer_Learning.html

Throughout this course we have been discussing the ways in which students learn, one being peer-to-peer learning. This article from Hybrid Pedagogy, written by Sean Michael Morris, introduces an event that is to happen on May 3 on Twitter. Essentially, this event involves a discussion on twitter with the hashtag #digped to discuss the ways in which we can utilize different technology to engage our students while also taking into account the ways in which things are changing and have already changed.

This article is relatable to what we have discussed in class in that it takes into accounts discussions we have had about how teachers can adapt to changing technology and other forms. Instead of seeing technology as a threat to a teacher, the article states that we can view it as a tool to allow our students a newfound voice, an outlet, and a place to share with the public. This is the approach I will take when I am teaching. Instead of running scared from things I do not understand, I will make a large effort to constantly stay up to date with different ways in which I can improve my classroom for my students.

This idea also takes into account the idea of sponsorship. By logging on to the internet, students can access countless forms of sponsors. The internet itself is a sponsor because students have the ability to search for any book or article they could fathom. Students can talk to other students across the country and share ideas. As teachers we can guide them to things they can search for. Setting up a GoogleDoc for students to recommend books they have read to one another is another awesome idea.

I’ll end with this quote from the article I had linked. I think it sums up a great way in which future teachers can view the internet.

“When we come to recognize the Internet not as an array of sites and pages but as people, all facing outward, facing each other — as they might in a classroom — we glimpse the learning environment we’re a part of, and that we’ve been a part of for decades. The pedagogy we apply, then, becomes a pedagogy of the collective, an invitation to the vast mass to think, discuss, and share.”