Re: Digital support for teaching as a design science

Diana Laurillard, April 20, 2012

This is an important point:
" I don't think this reduces the needs for discussion on pedagogical innovation, it just means that it is open to everyone not jsut a select group of professional 'educators.'"

Exactly. How could we ever hope to explore the wonderful opportunities offered by digital technologies if we didn't involve all teachers everywhere? Teachers are the people closest to students, who see every day their struggles, and who figure out ways of helping them. But digital technologies and educational software programs are rarely designed by teachers or even 'professional educators' - at least not by anyone who watches learners trying to learn from such things!

Yes the 'www.designthinkingforeducators.com' site is full of good things. But look at how that thinking is addressed directly to learners, not to teachers. Imagine posing all those questions to teachers, e.g. I have a challenge. How do I approach it? I have an idea. How do I build it? etc... and imagine an approach to learning technologies that built something for teachers that would help them answer those questions, no matter what kind of subject they teach. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]