Optional Update # 3: Didactic pedagogy today

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The concluding remarks from Dr. Cope regarding an analysis of didactic pedagogy at the end of the video 6, Didactic Pedagogy today 

 is a justifiable assessment and also correct in not dismissing as a whole this model of pedagogy. As Dr. Cope mentions, didactic pedagogy is alive and well today and function along with the other models. Nevertheless, it great that this model has been complemented or improved by the other models. I am certainly grateful for that.

I remember my freshman year at college when a young professor, I believe he was younger than 27 years old with a Ph.D. in Philosophy, entered the classroom with about 10 books under his arm, put them on the table, and started to write on the board explaining epistemology.

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After some 15 minutes of explanation, he paused, looked at us and said: “by the way, my name is …., and this is Philosophy 101.” Well, I do not know how but ended up selecting Philosophy as my major.

Certainly, Didactic pedagogy can be very painful for us as students. And therefore, the importance of complementing this model with others that are more in touch with today's social-cultural dynamics and to incorporate new tools in the learning process in order to avoid “mind full but brain and heart empty” consequence. That is to say that this model can be necessary but when it is used as exclusively and without the complement of the other models leads to a very painful experience. But these new models of the “new learning” would probably have to be complemented by others in the future given the fact that “history is not a straight line.”