Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2019, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 56-66.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2019.05.005

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Pedagogy in the Information Technology Age is an “Entertainment Science”

Ma Hemin1, Wang Desheng2, Yin Han3   

  1. 1. Institute of Schooling Reform and Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China;
    2. Department of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China;
    3. Mobile Station of Education Post-doctoral, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • Online:2019-09-20 Published:2019-09-11

Abstract: The rapid development of information technology has opened up new possibilities in education and stimulated people's infinite imagination of education in the future. Technology has become a new dimension of understanding education. Information technology has constructed an increasingly powerful educational discourse, which has evolved into a new educational ideology of modernization and modernity:dramatic changes in educational productivity and the resulting powerful momentum of balanced educational resources. However, judging from educational technology development, the application of technology in education and teaching is always full of entertainment, characterized by richness, interaction, novelty, simplicity and so on. Therefore, the educational application of new technology is often questioned and resisted by schools, teachers and parents. An analysis of the proposition that pedagogy in the information technology age is an "entertainment science" is helpful to the exploration of pedagogy of technology, and can support our deeper understanding of the two sides of technology applied in education:entertainment and productivity.

Key words: information technology, entertainment, pedagogy, educational technology, pedagogy of technology