"Gadgets Need Healing" A Proposal for Digital Pedagogy

Overview & Synopsis

Since Socrates, logos, the embodiment of rational inquiry, has been elevated to a suprahistorical force through which human autonomy is pursued at the expense of tekhne, the technical realms. Technology is viewed as inferior and an external aspect of human formation, and its alienation has led to its instrumentalization. Consequently, the rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a primordial fear of its creation becoming "like one of us." The current discussion argues that digital technology functions as an ecosystem rather than merely a tool for pedagogical discourse. It focuses more on the mindset than on the toolset. This perspective allows us to move beyond the previous dichotomy and foster dynamic engagement with it. I endorse three concepts to establish a digital pedagogical environment: logomathia (the substance of a course), praxamathia (the practical and performative aspect), and pathamathia (the affective dimension).