Giving a Key-note at Online Educa in Berlin
I am honoured to be invited to give a key-note at Online Educa in Berlin early December. This is the 14th international conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training.
It promises to be an interesting event, that will feature much more than just presentations. Bloggers have been invited to cover the event, and there are a number of fully interactive sessions as well. Michael Wesch of Kansas State University, the anthropologist that created the 'Machine is Us' and other videos with his students will be presenting as well, and I am very much looking forward to hearing him speak.
My own presentation, as well as my contribution in the panel discussion that will follow it, has the title "Networked life, networked work, networked learning. Or the consequences of accidentally reconfiguring my life." It will be a combination of the story of what my fully networked and connected day looks like, and the more fundamental shifts in underlying cultural categories that go with it. The changes I made these past 6 years in the way I live work and learn have not been preplanned, but happened in response to a changed environment. Once I noticed those responses I turned them into more conscious strategy.
When we look at how children respond to the technology available as well as to the societal changes that already caused, it is much the same process. We need to adapt our teaching, because the world these children grow up in and respond to has already changed due to the new affordances that mobile communication and internet give us. Our teaching needs to empower children to consciously shape their strategies using the tools and environment they already adapted to without noticing.
In preparation of the conference the organizers published a short interview with me, and there is a short article featuring some quotes on TrainingZone.
Am looking forward to visit Berlin again. It's been a long time since I last was there.
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Posted by: Ton Zijlstra at October 29, 2008 8:21 AMCongratulations, Ton! How exactly does one get invited to give a keynote speech, anyway?
Posted by: Brian at October 29, 2008 1:10 PM@Brian Thanks! I don't really know :) Last year they approached me at the last minute (or rather a day in advance) to replace a keynote speaker that had fallen ill. That was because a conference participant suggested me as replacement. I could not do that then, but apparantly they kept me on their list.
Posted by: Ton Zijlstra at October 29, 2008 4:32 PM
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