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Knowledge Lab Seminar: Demanding “better” EdTech with Rebecca Eynon
Proponents of the use of Education Technology (EdTech) typically promise that it will make learning and teaching in schools more efficient, effective and fairer. However, the realities are far more complex. Focusing on forms of EdTech that are designed to automate and personalise aspects of learning and teaching, this talk will discuss some of the ways that EdTech can be inadequate, based on ethnographic research of three schools in England. Although the implications of EdTech are never straightforward, the findings from this study clearly suggest that the education community should be demanding and reimagining “better” EdTech, that fits with broader educational purposes and designed with an explicit focus on questions of equity; and that teacher knowledge should be privileged as part of this process.
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11/15/2024
Sowing the seeds for a more creative society
Sowing the seeds for a more creative society This is the inaugural event in The Richard Noss Lectures, providing insights on technology and learning, with the UCL Knowledge Lab. Professor Mitchel Resnick, Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launches the series with his online lecture on 'Sowing the seeds for a more creative society'. 07 October 2021
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10/14/2021
What is learning design?
Dr Eileen Kennedy, Senior Research Fellow at UCL Knowledge, explains how learning design could help teachers make online teaching more effective and interactive. For more, join our free course at FutureLearn.com on Blended and Online Learning Design.
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1/11/2021
An Introduction to the Dept. of Culture, Communication and Media
An overview of the IOE with a focus on the work of CCM
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9/29/2020
AI programming by children and a case study using AI in a medical training game
AI programming by children As part of the eCraft2Learn project Dr Ken Kahn has enhanced the Snap! programming language with blocks for speech input and output, image recognition, machine learning, and word embeddings. A live demonstration will be shown. AI programming is entering the modern classroom, and children could become more reflective about their own thinking. Recent advances in AI make it feasible to provide intelligent support in educational games without the need for handcrafting models of the domain and learners. Dr Niall Winters explores the use of these techniques for the LIFE (Life-saving Instructions For Emergencies) mobile game aimed at nurses and associated healthcare workers across the Global South.
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5/22/2019
A Brief History of Ed-Tech 1989 - 2049
Professor Neil Selwyn casts a critical eye on the rhetorical claims made in the name of the progress and efficiency that technologies are said to deliver in educational settings. This talk considers some of the key debates in the field such as: Does technology make learning fairer? Can technology address the many educational problems and inequalities faced by people around the world? What does the future hold for technology and education? What can be learned from the history of technology use?
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5/10/2019
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at Great Ormond Street: The Place of Education in a Digitising Hospital
This seminar looks at how the development of TEL workstreams - Engagement, Online Learning and Digital Innovation - has progressed; how the Post Graduate Medical Education team have used social media, their web presence and an app for staff engagement; the journey towards an effective Virtual Learning Environment for the hospital; and the challenges presented by balancing the needs of various stakeholders.
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4/15/2019
Intimate analytics: data-intensive postgenomics, neurotechnology and bioinformatic education
Biodata related to education is increasingly available, as huge biobanks of genomic data and new neurotechnologies have developed, leading to a raft of multidisciplinary initiatives focused on the ideal of ‘precision learning’. While education is already subject to many ‘big data’ programs - such as learning analytics - precision learning represents a shift to ‘intimate data’ and the mining and analysis of biodata from the human body. This presentation will open up precision learning to social scientific examination. Drawing on recent science studies of data-centred postgenomics and neuroscience, as well as on critical data studies and biosocial conceptualisations, precision education initiatives will be approached as the hybrid product of three interpenetrating ‘codes’: biological codes pertaining to fleshy bodies, computer codes that instruct bioinformatic technologies, and social codes related to governing the expected or desired conduct of students.
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3/20/2019
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