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Pedagogy 4 Old - Control - #Traditional approaches to #learning, with their central #industrial paradigm, tend to focus on #order, #sequence and #control, where the control is #teacher-centric. A control-based #pedagogy therefore sees most decisions from content choice to how the content is engaged, being determined by the teacher. The following common example of an exercise exhibits this control-based approach. The learner is given a set of facts and is controlled in how they solve the problem
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Pedagogy 4 New - Chaos -“The teacher must intentionally cause enough #chaos to motivate the student to reorganise” (Doll, 1986). Chaos is not often associated with learning as it is equated with disorder. However modern learning environments are built around "noise" and #chaos. Shifting from the realm of the #ordered, understood, #controlled, to the realm of the unordered, confusing and laissez faire is challenging to lecturer and (to a lesser extent) student alike. Education has been forged for centuries in the #ordered, #controlled sanctums of academia. It is no trivial thing to venture into what is not only a new space, but also a new approach, and most disconcertingly, a new #paradigm located on the very edge of #chaos. Yet this chaotic learning is not #learning without #order, where chaos is the opposite of order, but rather #learning where patterns and paths cannot be predetermined. Where learning cannot be reduced to simple practices (#behaviourism) or to models (#cognitivism) or motivations (#humanism) or activities (#constructivism). Rather learning takes place in an emergent sense, where #order, when it exists, is retrospective, where #correcting is ongoing and not a state. Learning is a process, a process born of #connections between #actants, human and non-human. A process that may unfold in a plethora of ways, where each path creates a multiplicity of opportunities for new #connections, and new learning encounters. The following #video clip depicts and example of using a noisy environment to engage students in #learning.
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New Digital Pedagogies - Click here to see an overview of the four new #Digital-Pedagogies that are based on the four #principles and underlying #organic-paradigm.
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