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In recent years, the traditional teaching way is broken to open pedagogy which refers to open resources and how teacher teach. In this teaching method, a lot of benefits cannot be replaced by the traditional teaching way. For example, students can learn a new culture via questioning, playing, and imagination. It helps peer-to-peer learning which can shape the attitude of diversification of culture. It also increases the student’s openness and trust through sharing resources to each other. The most impressive point is student engagement. For ORE, teacher empowers students to solve problems, take the lead and work together by themselves. In this case, this method breaks the traditional method which focuses on the single teaching method. There are also have many benefits of open pedagogy such as peer review, reflective practice, sharing ideas and innovation (Hegarty, B. 2015).
When I read the open pedagogy, I admitted open pedagogy does have some benefits cannot be ignored, but I think open pedagogy may work for the majority of people and may not works for the minority of people who have a reading disorder or cannot talk or cannot hear. To be more specific, I mentioned in my blog 3, whether the community works for the reading disorder people? I also have the same doubt about whether the open pedagogy works for the reading disorder people or some people who cannot hear? For the open pedagogy, it engages the teacher and students to discuss together and the teacher gives the different topic according to the student’s interests. However, even if students show their interests to the teacher and teacher can adjust their teaching content, but for the reading disorder people or some disabilities people, they still cannot communicate with each other effectively. It is hard for them to exchange information or ideas quickly. The rest of the group people or teacher may not know their thinking. In this case, open pedagogy still works for those people? I just wondering is there already have some special learning methods for those group of people?
The second question is how open pedagogy allocate the resources to every kindergarten? For some children, they need the teacher to guide or help them to understand. Thus, open pedagogy needs the teacher to adjust their teaching content or teaching method according to different students, but the question is how the teaching resources are allocated? In other words, open pedagogy needs teachers to spend a lot of time to prepare for a different topic and school needs to provide enough resources, but I think the teaching resources and teachers are limited. If children have different groups and teacher empower them to solve the problem by themselves, what is the appropriate time for the teacher to teach what they want to students learn through the class? Moreover, I think is not every country is able to use the open pedagogy. For example, China has a large number of population, and students will face the national college entrance exam. If using open pedagogy, the content cannot be finished before the college entrance exam. In this case, the open pedagogy cannot be used in that country.
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In general, I think open pedagogy can change the way of learning and teaching, we do enjoy the benefits from open pedagogy. However, I think the open pedagogy still have some problems should be fixed as I mentioned in my paragraph. Therefore, if we have a specific solution for those questions, the open pedagogy may have more benefits than before.
Reference:
Hegarty, B. (2015). Attributes of Open Pedagogy: A Model for Using Open Educational Resources. Educational Technology,55(4), 3-13. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/stable/44430383