NetworkED: Technology in Education

I knew that the internet wouldn't give me a wrong answer

Students are busy developing their own approaches to learning which take advantage of the abundance of information and new forms of collaboration online. Many of their ad hoc strategies are highly effective but are nevertheless frowned upon by an educational establishment which is struggling to adapt to the implications of the web. Drawing on findings from the Digital Visitors and Residents project, David White, from the University of Oxford, will discuss how the sheer convenience of the web is shifting what it means to learn (and to teach) back towards critical and creative thinking. You can find out more about the speaker from his blog: http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/author/whited/

Funded by the LSE Annual Fund.

NetworkEd: Technology in Education is a seminar series organised by LSE's Centre for Learning Technology (CLT). The series invites speakers from education, computing and related fields to discuss how technology is shaping the world of education. Technological developments, particularly the internet, have led to changes in the way institutions can deliver teaching,but are also impacting on students' skills and and their expectations of higher education. The seminar series is open to all at LSE, but will also be live streamed to enable an audience from around the world to listen to the talk and to participate using a variety of technologies.