New Pedagogies, New Social Practices

New Pedagogies, New Social Practices

Humans have been teaching, learning, and conducting research via information technologies since Socrates first complained about it in the fourth-century BCE “Phaedrus.” Now that we are into the second decade of the World Wide Web and the internet’s second generation, we have seen a wide range of practices emerge for teaching and learning with technology. As technologies have proliferated and developed, teachers have developed and shared techniques and projects through networks and institutions.  In this cyberspatial milieu students have been guinea pigs and innovators, taking classes, experiencing projects, helping teachers teach and staff support instructors, graduating as alumni and sometimes returning as staff.