Education Society - The impact of technology on teaching and learning situations: When is change transformative?

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Dr Helen Siedel
Date 06/06/2019 at 16.45 - 06/06/2019 at 18.00 Where Syndicate Room 2, Chancellor's Centre

We hope people with various perspectives on the education enterprise will join us to engage with topics such as “How, and how well, does technology serve today’s goals for education?” and “Does technology create a need to change those goals?”

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 In the first part of this Education Society event, a framework for assessing the impact of technological resources on teaching and learning situations will be introduced. In the second part, the framework will be used to scaffold discussion about the past, present, and future role of technology as an agent for change in education. The framework is discipline neutral, but derives from an ongoing investigation of secondary mathematics teachers’ selection of resources in England. That investigation highlighted not only the need for educators to be able to strategically select from the current overabundance of instructional resources, but also the need for educators to grapple with the consequences of an evolving technological environment. We hope people with various perspectives on the education enterprise will join us to engage with topics such as “How, and how well, does technology serve today’s goals for education?” and “Does technology create a need to change those goals?”

About the speaker

Technological change accounts for the exciting but somewhat daunting abundance of resources today’s educators can draw on to support teaching and learning. Dr. Helen Siedel, a researcher in mathematics education from the United States, investigates educators’ interactions with instructional resources in England, where teachers have not relied on textbooks as much as teachers in most other countries. In England, teachers may have both the luxury of and responsibility for choosing resources, making England an important site for documenting what resources teachers select and why, when choice is an option, and for developing professional activity to help teachers find, select, and use resources. This research contributes to international efforts enabling educators to take advantage of the resource cornucopia on behalf of student learning.