Educational Visions lecture
15 February 2010
‘Can New Web Technologies Support Radical Pedagogies?’, Professor Patrick Carmichael Professor of Educational Research at LJMU, Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure.
Monday 22nd February, 4.00 - 6.00pm, LJMU Art and Design Academy
Patrick Carmichael is Professor of Educational Research in the Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure; before coming to LJMU he worked at the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge, where he was Head of the Research and Evaluation Group, a team of educational researchers, evaluators and software developers. Before that, Patrick worked in teacher education and CPD (mainly concerned with school improvement and self-evaluation) and as a teacher, mainly in the East End of London. He is currently director of "Ensemble: Semantic Technologies for the Enhancement of Case Based Learning", a major project exploring the potential role of the 'next generation' of the World Wide Web in Higher Education. His other research interests include participatory research approaches, the role of digital libraries and museums in learning and how best to support 'early career researchers' in education.
Professor Patrick Carmichael’s Vision
The claims made for new technologies in education are ambitious and wide-ranging: nothing less than the transformation of schools and universities, and new kinds of teaching and learning are promised. As new web technologies and ever-more portable devices emerge, their potential for social and education innovation is heralded.
Yet much educational technology seems to reproduce established teaching and learning practices, and reinforce existing teacher and learner roles. Perhaps the problem is that the educational world waits expectantly to see what technology will arrive next and then wonders what to 'do' with it... maybe we are looking in the wrong places for innovation, and need to explore 'whose technology' and 'whose learning'?
The 'Semantic Web' or 'Linked Data Web' is one of these new technologies and it certainly represents an area of rapid innovation; but how can it be used by teachers and learners in ways that are not only innovative but also transformative, emancipatory and radical? Some of the web tools developed by the 'Ensemble' project will be presented and the opportunities they offer for creative and radical pedagogical practice will be explored.
For further information contact CERES Officer Emma FitzGerald, tel: 0151 231 5334 or email: e.fitzgerald@ljmu.ac.uk or to book a place please contact Conference and Event Services, tel: 0151 231 3668 or email: professorials@ljmu.ac.uk
