The Belief2Practice Blog
Originally posted 30th November 2018
How do you describe how digital technology is being used in education in a way that is concise yet allows useful comparison across contexts? The Digital Technology Impact Framework highlights key elements of practice involving digital technology across three dimensions.
...continue reading "The Digital Technology Impact Framework (DTIF)"Originally posted 21st September 2018
Some call this vertical learning (not to be confused with virtual grouping/mixed age teaching)
Stand up learning has 6 key elements:
...continue reading "Stand up learning"The PedTech framework, as set out in From EdTech to PedTech (Aubrey-Smith and Twining, 2024), starts with values and beliefs. Everything else - purpose, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and the role of digital technology - flows from there. One implication of this, which I have explored in earlier posts, is that alignment matters. Your pedagogical stance needs to be consistent with the system you are operating in, otherwise the coherence that makes a PedTech approach powerful breaks down.
However, this raises an uncomfortable question.
...continue reading "Which Pedagogical Stance Should You Adopt If You Are Working in a Traditional Education System?"The title is, on the face of it, an odd claim. PedTech clearly is a thing — there is a book about it, a series of posts on this blog unpacking its implications, and a growing body of practice around it. So what does it mean to say PedTech is not a thing?
PedTech is not a thing in the way that EdTech is a thing. It is not a tool. You cannot pick it up, deploy it, or choose between versions of it.
...continue reading "PedTech misconceptions: PedTech is NOT a Thing"I want to explore the strengths and weaknesses of four 'learning theories' as explanations of how people learn. See Comparing Pedagogical Stances for the defining elements of each of these theories.
Before I start I want to make clear that the answer to the question 'Which theory best explains how people learn?' is different from the question 'Which theory should a school adopt as its pedagogical stance?'. Different people/schools will have different values and beliefs, and one has to start there.
...continue reading "Analysing ‘learning theories’"