Neil Selwyn, a leading researcher in digital education and professor at Monash University, explores the real challenges of the integration of technology in education. We are delighted to announce that he will be one of the main speakers of our openness, bringing his ideas on the future of digital learning to the OEB25!
What was your first thought of the theme of this year’s conference “Humanity at the intelligent age: empathy, responsibility and duty of diligence”?
That we must speak more of values - the values (often problematic) which are currently cooked in the technologies that we most often see in education and alternative values that we really might want to see favored by the use of technology.
If you could examine the year 2045, what do you plan that learning will be motivated?
Data and platforms … We could anticipate them as a positive Or Negative mestructure of education, but dating and platform are clearly long-term formatting trends in the education of the 21st century.
What book should everyone read?
I would simply be happy to think that people continue to read the books in their entirety, rather than looking for shortcuts. There is real value in long books, even in a field like digital learning that seems to change so quickly!
What question is also rarely asked when we are talking about learning?
Shouldn’t we talk about many other aspects of education rather than “learning”?
Thank you, Neil. Neil Selwyn I will speak to the OEB opening plenary.
