The Standards of critical Digital Pedagogies and the Independent Project Response

As response to the Independent Project video, I am of the opinion that it is an amazing initiative to promote learning on all levels. It shows the capabilities that can be achieved when both students and teachers work together to establish a productive educational environment. The project allows for an open debate between the learners, students and teachers and promotes an a engagement.


However this space of learning can only be achieved when all parties, such as the students, teachers and educational structures are willing to work together to promote knowledge. With that being said, what the ICT suggest makes reference to that which is being employed by the Project. A learning sphere that uses digital technologies to connect more communicants by sharing and engaging about knowledge. In addition the ICT works on the notion that everyone involve in the program have access to these pedagogies. This feature runs a risk, for in the context of South Africa, it would be very difficult to create such a program or even  to implement it. Reasons being I that in order for such a program, to work nationally, the educational structure needs to be re- evaluated. The problem is that most curricula in the country is set up in such a fashion that promotes productive and production learning, meaning that the learner acts merely at a receptive level. The teacher acts as a distributed knowledge level and all of this is based  and mark around a merit system of education.

However I do feel that if a more tech-mediated self-directed distance learning system was implemented, it would allow for more engagement and extensive connectivity  with  regards to information. That being said, the educational system needs to be updated to cater for learners with no access to these portals. In addition, an example of such initiatives would be to incorporate more facilities, such as libraries or computer labs that will allow learners to access these networks. Furthermore a joint venture needs to take place where feedback from students need to be incorporated in the evaluation and write up of curriculums. This feature shall allow for more fluidity when it comes to the teacher as student and student as teacher dynamic.