Pedagogy in 21st Century! The Digital Era.

Pedagogy means the art and science of teaching. Therefore it addresses all types of skills, methods,strategies and models being exploited to deliver the education process to the students and educational stakeholders at large.

Fortunately, due to influx of technology boom and switching from analog technology into digital technology has brought the whole world at our finger tips with exponential level efficiency and speed. This digital experience is part of our daily routine now and we keep utilizing it according to our needs, requirements and understanding. Digital natives (generation who grew up with technology continues to evolve it today) while a Digital immigrant is an individual born before the existence of digital technology and adopted it to some extent in later life.

This huge change in technology has great impact on human life in the fields of education, business, economy, research, health, and entrepreneurship too. In education particularly technology demands creativity, innovation and higher order thinking skills to integrate in classroom teaching/learning process. Therefore, the traditional methodology of teaching is no more valid and reliable to lay our trust upon for future training of our children's education.

Contemporary pedagogical skills integration is not just confined to classroom teaching rather must focus on broader scale and influence the learner's life in global perspective to turn them into future leaders as technologists, educationists, doctors, business executives, entrepreneurs, social scientists, researchers and global citizens above all.

Learner centered teaching practices require three dimensional activities to be planned, modified and implemented in educational institutions, homes and life patters. Such programs and models must be thought provoking for our educational management consultants, educational stakeholders, higher education institutions and school managers/principals especially to reflect on their skills now.

We need to join hands together to face this global challenge now by invigorating our pedagogical skills in accordance with the 21st century skills to address the needs of digital age learner. Creating new culture in schools, colleges and universities with market driven and opportunity driven teaching and research platforms. Supervise and facilitate our businesses to provide new dimensions of experience to fresh employees in order to transform them into optimum performers. Social entrepreneurs primarily must provide new opportunities of growth and development to contemporary learner for a better tomorrow.

Pedagogy in 21st Century, the digital age is all about being global, being creative thinker and being an innovator to reach solutions of our problems through reflection and practice.