CALRG 30th anniversary
Just spent the day at the above, details of which can be accessed from the
Cloudworks site. Spent an entertaining day being whisked back to the past and into the future with current and past collaborators. Here are some thoughts captured from the day:
- "for technology to take off it has to appeal to young people and fit into their social life" Mike Sharples
- "we need to understand what people are doing with information to design better technology" Ann Blanford
- "it's very hard to capture pedagogy" & "it slips through your fingers" Diana Laurillard
- to paraphrase Grainne Conole: lack of reuse meant we needed new pedagogies, Cloudworks helped make the design process more explicit
- Andrew Ravenscroft worried that we were encouraging "home brew intellect" vs "Grolsch intellect" with all this Web 2.0 stuff!!
- Tim O'Shea identified electronic assessment as a Big Issue i.e. why are we assessing with pen and paper when students use e-devices normally?