Digital Pedagogies

Digital Pedagogies

1. Critical Thinking

   • Creativity
   • Collaboration
     • The incorporation of digital pedagogies allows for multiple platforms for collaboration. With thousands of sites, social medias, apps and more that have sharing capabilities, online collaboration is but a mouse click away. Collaboration has many benefits however, the encouragement of critical thinking would be one of the most valuable. Whilst collaborating with peers, a student may be exposed to information/ facts and opinions that will cause a revision of their reasoning and possibly, forming new opinions, ideas and overall engaging students in critical thinking and developing their reasoning skills
   • Reasoning Skills
     • Critical thinking skills allow students to form their own opinion on various topic areas, skills and more, developing their reasoning skills. As students reasoning skills develop, it will enable them to understand ideas and concepts better, and arrive at logical conclusions. The utilization of digital pedagogies would be a beneficial practice to develop such skills as online research and enquiry tasks would enable students to directly engage in critical thinking as they absorb data and facts to make judgements.

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   • As digital pedagogies enhance learning experience through meaningful ICT use, students creativity will subsequently be developed as they discover a range of new online tools targeted to encourage creativity. The creativity in which a student produces will be dependent on their critical thinking skills. AS critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment, the product that stems from a students creativity will come from how that student has interpreted the use of the ICT tools available.

3. Problem Solving

   • Students will undoubtedly encounter online issues whether they be technological personal or other. The outcome of the issue will be dependant on their problem solving skills to solve this issue for now and if it may arise again in the future. Much of problem solving skills originate from critical thinking because critical thinking is the process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. when encountering problems to be solved, students can follow basically the same process to overcome an issue

4. Pedagogy

   • digital pedagogies and critical thinking have a direct link through observing the pedagogy wheel. The ideology of digital pedagogies is to enhances the learning experience through the use of ICTs with an emphasis on the competencies the student is developing that are relevant to being in a digital world. Critical thinking is one of the competencies loosely outlined in the evaluate section of the pedagogy wheel as it incorporates the use of apps that improve the users ability to judge material or methods based on criteria set by themselves. This helps students judge contents reliability, accuracy, quality, effectivness and make informed decisions