What Pedagogy Means to Me:
In the context of this paper, the term pedagogy may is understood as the use of methods and approaches by teachers to facilitate the learning process. For that reason, I believe that the conventional learning environment is steadily being replaced by online learning environment. In the course of time technology will offer more tools to support the processes taking place in teaching and education. As for me, the most significant strategy used in class interactions may probably be when the instructor directly communicates with the learners. This makes me understand that, when the teachers call us to help her answer several questions or when she answers several students’ questions, I am able to retain the information well.
Networked Pedagogy in Action:
What makes networked pedagogy useful is due to the increased number of people that you are able to engage with that you would normally not be able to. With its help, one can maintain working relationships with people regardless of the proximity to one another. Personally, I only have good things to say regarding students’ interaction, where I connect with my fellow students for group studies or to share assistance. Technology especially social media supports these relationship making it easy to maintain and use to gathered information to support academics.
Learning Theories in Practice:
Social Learning Theory:
According to the ALTEC, social learning theory focuses on the learning process resulting from other people’s activities and observation of the learners. Of these, copying is particularly common due to the simple availability and diffuse sharing of multimedia in an online context. This allows people to exhibit patterned behaviours about the topic that others can follow or emulate by sharing videos, images and other content. I find this theory directly related to my learning as I often use YouTube to learn. When other people are explaining and teaching or even solving their own problems, I can emulate them and understand too well complex ideas.
The Role of the Instructor:
Online education is an area of thinking and practice where an instructor has many roles to play apart from teaching. In addition, they should forward content and open the channel for students to build relationships, cooperate, and interact instrumentally with the help of digital resources. Of course, instructors must have a vast amount of information concerning the online resources in order to be able to teach it appropriately. Looking at my several course that I have been taking online at UVic, I have always had good feelings. This was so since educators were conversant with the required online tools to use and could easily guide students in the right way whenever they had issues or bottlenecks on the system.
Exploring Digital Spaces:
Digital spaces are areas in which people learn and communicate electronically. These spaces are also effective in that they provide the students with a chance to work in groups with other students from their different background. Nevertheless, one disadvantage of using unfamiliar digital platforms is that they may become bewildering at the beginning. There is also no reason to become rude and cycle negativity in these spaces to make any positive changes desired. Moreover, it make it possible to encounter these platforms without having many glitches, while respecting others is helpful in creating healthy communicational discourse.