Pedagogy, Digital Pedagogy, Pedagogue- You say what?

 I am always overwhelmed when I come across these words.  My head goes al crazy and I gasp for air, and then I need to orientate myself with definitions.

So "Digital Pedagogy is the use of electronics to enhance or to change the experience of education"

I would like to focus on the words "to enhance" or "to change”. It is important for a pedagogue to enhance or to change a learners experience through being creative and using the environment to create a successful learning experience. Pedagogy is a creative style of teaching and Digital pedagogy allows the boundaries of teaching to enlarger to a wider field. As state by Sean Morris (Decoding digital pedagogy, pt. 1: beyond the LMS):

"Pedagogy has at its core timeliness, mindfulness, and improvisation"

According to Morris "Pedagogy experiments relentlessly, honoring a learning that’s lifelong", meaning that pedagogues must rather focus on “meaningful, sustained learning”. For instance teach them a pedagogy of poetry. And you all say what? A Pedagogy of poetry for what? All that I am saying is that teachers must rather teach a love for poetry then giving 12 lessons on a poem. By doing this a teacher will create a love for poetry within the child and that will encourage the learner to write poetry himself in the feature. Yes! That’s what you call sustained learning and I like it!

And if technology is the way for you to sustain learning, why not? Like @slamteacher argues that “What is important is seeing the difference — a difference that becomes much more acute when learning goes online” And that are exactly what pedagogues is after – the difference.

Even so Morris reminds us that “Not all teachers are pedagogues, nor need they be”.  At First I was like noooo I thought pedagogues are teachers. But then I created my own way of understanding this (I don’t know if it is the right way, though) and that is: pedagogues are more creative than teachers. And it is fine if you are not the creative type, Morris promise you that “There is a place for all styles of classroom practice”. It is fine if you are not a pedagogue or even a digital pedagogue for that matter, but it is important to ask the question whether your learners will be able to sustain what they have learned in your classroom?