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New online reading group: please participate!
Our new online reading group is launched today. Please take a look at the site which can be found here: http://createreading.clivemcgoun.net.
Here’s some more information about what Clive and I are trying to do:
The Centre for Research in Education and Technology (CREATE) at the Institute of Education examines the implications of socio-technical change for the goals, practices and institutions of education across the life-course. Members of the group publish and speak widely, across diverse disciplines and sectors, and use such networks to create rich, interdisciplinary work informed by multiple perspectives.
As part of CREATE’s work, we would like to invite you to take part in our online reading group which can be found here:
http://createreading.clivemcgoun.net
This experimental online reading site is an attempt to reach out beyond CREATE’S physical boundaries within ESRI. We hope that it will provide a forum for discussion and debate about key texts with educators in all spheres of education. The use of video and commenting tools will, we hope, provoke a sense of communal enquiry about key texts across the university and more widely via the Internet. The first, short article (written by the site’s two facilitators) considers how learning could become more social through the use of various tools. It won’t take long to read! Future papers will look at other aspects of technology and education, starting with a paper from CREATE’s Director, Professor Keri Facer, in January 2010.
Please visit the site, watch the short video, read the first text and start a discussion by commenting on the ideas and responding to others.
CREATE NW ONLINE READING GROUP
The Centre for Research in Education and Technology (CREATE) at the Institute of Education examines the implications of socio-technical change for the goals, practices and institutions of education across the life-course. Members of the group publish and speak widely, across diverse disciplines and sectors, and use such networks to create rich, interdisciplinary work informed by multiple perspectives.
As part of CREATE’s work, we would like to invite you to take part in our online reading group which can be found here:
This experimental online reading site is an attempt to reach out beyond CREATE’S physical boundaries within ESRI. We hope that it will provide a forum for discussion and debate about key texts with educators in all spheres of education. The use of video and commenting tools will, we hope, provoke a sense of communal enquiry about key texts across the university and more widely via the Internet.
The first, short article (written by the site’s two facilitators) considers how learning could become more social through the use of various tools. It won’t take long to read! Future papers will look at other aspects of technology and education, starting with a paper from CREATE’s Director, Professor Keri Facer, in January 2010.
Please visit the site, watch the short video, read the first text and start a discussion by commenting on the ideas and responding to others.
Dr Jonathan Savage, Reader in Education, IOE
Web: www.jsavage.org.uk
Email: j.savage@mmu.ac.uk
Mr Clive McGoun, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care.
Web: www.clivemcgoun.net
Email: c.mcgoun@mmu.ac.uk
27th November 2009
