Understanding critical digital pedagogy

“There is no such thing as a neutral educational process.”  ~ Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

So in this article, “The standards of critical digital pedagogy”, you must first understand what is meant by the term critical digital pedagogy.  At the OpenEd Conference in Washington, DC, Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel presented on critical digital pedagogy.

This is what they had explained what critical digital pedagogy is ,, Critical Pedagogy is an approach to teaching and learning predicated on fostering agency and empowering learners (implicitly and explicitly critiquing oppressive power structures). The word “critical” in Critical Pedagogy functions in several registers as in mission-critical, essential; as in literary criticism and critique, providing definitions and interpretation; as in reflective and nuanced thinking about a subject; as in criticizing institutional, corporate, or societal impediments to learning;
Critical Pedagogy, as a disciplinary approach, which inflects (and is inflected by) each of these other meanings.
Each of these registers distinguishes Critical Pedagogy from pedagogy; however, the current educational climate has made the terms, for me, increasingly coterminous (i.e. an ethical pedagogy must be a critical one). Pedagogy is praxis, insistently perched at the intersection between the philosophy and the practice of teaching. When teachers talk about teaching, we are not necessarily doing pedagogical work, and not every teaching method constitutes a pedagogy. Rather, pedagogy necessarily involves recursive, second-order, meta-level work. Teachers teach; pedagogues teach while also actively investigating teaching and learning. Critical Pedagogy suggests a specific kind of anti-capitalist, liberatory praxis. This is deeply personal and political work, through which pedagogues cannot and do not remain objective. Rather, pedagogy, and particularly Critical Pedagogy, is work to which we must bring our full selves, and work to which every learner must come with full agency.

So if you understand the term, you could apply it to your classroom. Pedagogy doesn’t necessarily need to be technology based but it must empower learning in the class without using the conventional  methods of teaching. It is an integrated source of teaching and learning that you can apply to your lesson and method of presenting the lesson. Thus, improving teacher-student communication and interaction.