Transforming Learning: Digital Technologies and Educational Change: A Symposium to Explore Interdependent Effects of Society and Technology on the Future of Education, Part 2

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Authors

Roland vanOostveen, Francois Desjardins, Maurice DiGiuseppe, Shawn Bullock, Lorayne Robertson, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, Jun 29, 2010 in Toronto, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-81-5

Abstract

The increasingly symbiotic relationship between society and digital technology suggests that studying one is impossible without studying the other. Technological innovations are fueled by a seemingly ever-growing demand for sophisticated communication devices that serve multiple purposes such as voice and data communication, personal information access points, collaboration tools, multimedia recording and editing, data presentation, GPS, and measurement instruments - just to name a few. Simultaneously, society is being shaped by the power and ubiquity of technological devices and processes that serve us... sometimes to the point of addiction. Over the past 150 years, technological advances and research in medicine served to improve general health and extend life expectancies. Today, there is a need to focus on digital technologies in education to understand how its sociological and technological interdependencies can have similar effects on education over the next 50 years. This symposium will explore these interrelationships.

Citation

vanOostveen, R., Desjardins, F., DiGiuseppe, M., Bullock, S. & Robertson, L. (2010). Transforming Learning: Digital Technologies and Educational Change: A Symposium to Explore Interdependent Effects of Society and Technology on the Future of Education, Part 2. In J. Herrington & C. Montgomerie (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2010--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (p. 4071). Toronto, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/35233.