Teaching in a Digital Age
A.W. (Tony) Bates
Guidelines for designing teaching and learning for a digital age
The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when everyone, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching. The book enables teachers and instructors to help students develop the knowledge and skills they will need in a digital age: not so much the IT skills, but the thinking and attitudes to learning that will bring them success.
As Tony mentions here, his intended audience is primarily:
- college and university instructors anxious to improve their teaching or facing major challenges in the classroom,
- school teachers, particularly in secondary or high schools anxious to ensure their students are ready for either post-secondary education or a rapidly changing and highly uncertain job market.
An example chapter:
Chapter 7: Pedagogical differences between media
- 7.1 Thinking about the pedagogical differences of media
- 7.2 Text
- 7.3 Audio
- 7.4 Video
- 7.5 Computing
- 7.6 Social media
- 7.7 A framework for analysing the pedagogical characteristics of educational media