Knowledge Bank Conference 2008

Day 2/Session 2
Can Web 2.0 change the way we produce knowledge in schools?

Date and time
Wednesday 23 July, 12pm

Where
Click here to listen to the recording.   

Presenter(s)
Chris Bigum

Description

Why has the Web now got a number? or coming to terms with the read/write web, knowledge production in schools and learning to deal with technologies that develop exponentially.

 Web 2.0 or the read/write web is the latest of a long line of computing-related developments that have prompted considerable interest in schools. Unlike earlier developments, in which responses by schools have followed predictable patterns, the read/write or social Web poses different challenges for schools as well as offering new ways of working for students and teachers.

 This presentation will do three things:

• broadly map developments in schools and education more generally and make connections for principals, beginning teachers, long-time technophobe teachers, computer enthusiast teachers, parents, students.
• locate this account in an analysis of future developments in computing and related technologies
• explore the implications of these developments for particular kinds of knowledge production in schools.

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