Digital pedagogy as a response to the challenges of contemporary education

Abstract

The current stage of global social and economic development is characterized by digitalization, bringing many changes to education. In the last two years, marked by combatting the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, information and communication technology in education has seen exponential growth, which has resulted in the need to adapt teaching methods to achieve planned learning outcomes. Teachers have faced the challenge of adequately perfecting teaching and learning methods to respond to pupil demands and their different educational needs and to increase their motivation to participate in an increasingly virtually oriented teaching process. The increasing use of digital technology in teaching in recent years has accelerated the development of new areas of pedagogy. In the scientific literature, there is increasing talk about digital pedagogy as a new branch or approach in pedagogy that studies the laws of digital education, developing new strategies and approaches to enrich the curriculum using information and communication technology. This paper seeks to explain the concept of digital pedagogy and how it can solve traditional didactic problems, shaping and developing innovative learning processes while developing and supporting a curriculum increasingly oriented toward digital technology. It proposes opportunities for teachers to improve the quality of the teaching process and highlights shortcomings and new challenges facing the increased use of information and communication technology in teaching.