How is your digigogy?

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | education, training | 5 Comments

All of you who are teachers know about Bloom’s taxonomy – even some of us who are not teachers have heard about it.  During your training you’ve learned about the different levels through which you must take learners, starting from acquiring knowledge; understanding what they have learned; being able to apply the learning; analyzing and synthesizing facts; moving to the ability to evaluate any piece of knowledge learners may acquire; and eventually to use all of this to create new knowledge.

Do you remember Bloom’s triangle diagram?

You have also been schooled in pedagogy. (Definition of pedagogy: teaching methods; the principles and methods of instruction).

An essential part of pedagogy is how a teacher could use different teaching methods to move learners upwards through the different levels of Bloom.

When you are introduced to technology, it is important to learn how to use the new tools during instruction.  The basic principles do not change: Bloom continues blooming, and the pedagogy remains pedagogical.  It is only the tools that change.

Digital tools giving effect to the pedagogy let you enter the realm of digigogy.  This is a term coined by Mike Fisher.  He states:

“Where pedagogy is about methods to instruct, digigogy is about those methods, but with a technological frame … digigogy is about reframing our methods in the future of instruction.”

An adapted Bloom’s triangle, once digigogyfied, looks like this:

Exciting, isn’t it?  Would you ever have thought that one day you would become skilled in the art in digigogy?

Tags: digigogy, pedagogy