Fyfe...

Fyfe…

 

 

After reading Fyfe’s article I decided to be as direct and honest as I possibly can… I loathed the piece on Digital Pedagogy and its surrounding debates. Most people I know, myself included, don’t have the time or resources to help visionaries combat the actual frightening revelation of students losing their creative thought process. Technology and Microsoft based tools are very much a part of society and a loss of creativity is the last thing I care about.

Let me put it this way, because I am starting to feel irritated. Technology simplifies life; I do not see why major companies should re-utilize their program tools, just because of a few people who think outside the box and demand that our digital humanities program become less technological. However, I do also agree with Mr Fyfe, that too many slide shows wreck the brain. But there is nothing we can do about the one-way method of digital pedagogy. In my opinion the very few lecturers that are trying to defy, the digital pedagogy are far and few in between, the monstrous educational system which employed them.

 Too many students have adapted to the technological aspect of everyday education.  Technology offers us a safer way of storing information, and a way of combining work, relationships or friendships through social media projects. These technologies have been etched into the brains of the modern day student, take this away from us now and our worlds would come crashing down like a word document that’s “ not responding “. There’s no task manager for real life when our worlds crash, change is a part of life and people adapt. People need to get with the program or literally be left behind; society and technology will always be entwined.