Lecture explores learning with technology

10 March 2010

In his lecture, entitled ‘Can New Web Technologies Support Radical Pedagogies?’, Patrick drew on his prior experience of working in international development projects to explore how technology enhanced learning can best be understood and integrated into the practices of teachers and learners.  Drawing extensively on the work of Paolo Freire, he suggested that, like education more generally, technology enhanced learning can become part of the "practice of freedom, the means by which people discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."

Proessor Carmichael also discussed how notions of 'introduction' or 'adoption' of technologies deny the innovative capacities of teachers and learners, arguing instead that 'creative appropriation' framed by radical perspectives should be encouraged.   New web technologies including 'Web 2.0' and the emerging semantic web were demonstrated and exposed to a critical assessment which asked - how can these contribute to the 'practices of freedom' which Freire describes?

Further information about Professor Carmichael’s research can be found here

The next lecture in the Educational Visions series will take place on 18th March. Professor Philip Vickerman will deliver his lecture entitled ‘Including Children with Special Educational Needs in Physical Education – Have we arrived at Utopia?’ Further details of this lecture can be found here

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