Using technology is not a «silver bullet» to help pupils learn and should only be used if it has a «
clear pedagogical purpose» — rather than for the sake of using it.
«These courses serve no
conceivable pedagogical purpose and defy every norm and standard adhered to by professional educators,» Deasy wrote, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In the previous category, a teacher might require independent reading for a general purpose like «teaching students to love reading,» but in this category such
blunt pedagogical purposes are sharpened.
NASSP believes that, while tracking was originally intended for
practical pedagogical purposes, its unintended consequences make it an obsolete practice in the context of high expectations for all.
This is the connection between a bourgeois mind and a particular class of persons, but I think Dawson makes the connection primarily for historical and
pedagogical purposes.
Could you explain
your pedagogical purposes?
Indeed, we can reconstruct a school of the past that is appropriate to the modern era, where teachers» salaries are competitive with other professions, where students are taught by older peers under the supervision of master teachers who can use technology for
pedagogical purposes.
This may serve
a pedagogical purpose, for example if the students are studying encyclopedias that week.