Do you even pedagogy?

I am still trying to figure out what pedagogy is and what exactly it means to be a pedagogue. All these terms are floating by on a daily basis, some of us nod and some of us (me) just sit there wondering about what exactly this means.

At first I thought of it as the method of teaching used by educators, that made most sense, but now I am not entirely sure. As I see it now, pedagogy to me is the way the tools of teaching and learning are used by educators to help the learner in the learning process. Not all teachers are pedagogues, some give learners work to do and they do it for the sake of doing it and they do not learning a whole lot in that process because as soon as the test/assessment is done they have forgotten the work because it is no longer needed.

The tools used to teach should always be new and innovative even if the content being taught stays the same over some time. Take the instance of the LMS, it was to be something advanced, but it turned out to be something that limits the users and make the "learning" nothing new, just the same information on a new platform.

We have to innovate to continue learning and not get comfortable when things start working out, these boundaries need to be pushed so that we can continue to find new ways to learn.

So to even be considered as a digital pedagogue we should consider the students as active learners who are part of the process of teaching. We have to use the tools available to us to do something new and to get the students learning through new ways of teaching and discovery.

Digital pedagogy does not have a specific definition, it is merely they way that we as teachers continue to work and innovate to do new things with the content that needs to be presented.