Digital pedagogy in teacher education: A need of the hour

Digital pedagogy can be defined as a use of electronic elements to enhance or to change experience of teacher education. The simple use of PowerPoint in the classroom to the Khan Academy’s exhortation to “flip the classroom,” and the massive growth of Open Online Courses (MOOCs), all are included in digital pedagogy. Apart from these, digital pedagogy also include blogging assignments, the use of social media in the classroom, “forking” syllabi with GitHub, and engaging students to use digital tools to test ideas. Therefore, digital pedagogy is no less than an attempt to use technology for changing teaching and learning in a variety of ways. Academic interest in digital pedagogy has taken its own toll. Digital pedagogy centred journals such as Hybrid Pedagogy and the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy was launched in 2011. Paul Fyfe argued that a simple incorporation of a tool in a lecture, without any reflection on how the lecture from itself should evolve, is pretty much the same as a lecture without tool. This paper tries to define digital pedagogy in a broad way.