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Learning Café EPD14

Digital Capabilities Now and in the World to Come (Join for Cross-Sector Conversations)

Date Thursday, Dec 6  Time   –    Room Queen

In his iconic 2005 article, Lee S. Shulman defines signature pedagogies as “types of teaching that organize the fundamental ways in which future practitioners are educated for their new professions.”

Today, there is no way around teaching digital capabilities as part of the education of future practitioners for their new professions. Here, however, things get murky. Does a history teacher require the same digital capabilities as a chemistry teacher, or to go further afield, as a dentist, or what about a ballet dancer, or a software developer? And over the next decade, won’t these requirements change? The concepts are certainly concrete, yet fascinating to discuss. Speculation, on these topics is also engaging - and can prove productive. This Learning Café invites you to reflect on your current digital capabilities (in daily work-life and as a citizen) as well as consider what these may be in the next 5-10-20 years, in order to create an action plan for digital capabilities for your role and organisation.

Moderator

OEB speaker Tunde Varga-Atkins

Tunde Varga-Atkins

Learning Technology Developer, Centre for Innovation in Education, University of Liverpool, UK