CAL '09 'Learning in Digital Worlds'
The CAL biennial conference, in association with Computers & Education, and Elsevier, is one of the premier international conferences addressing computers and learning.
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Monday Mar 23, 2009 10:00
to Wednesday Mar 25, 2009 17:00 |
| Where | Brighton |
| Contact Name | Richard Millwood |
| Contact Email | richard.millwood@core-ed.org.uk |
| Contact Phone | 07790558641 |
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It has a proud tradition of engendering critical debate on the key issues being tackled by researchers and practitioners in all areas and levels of, amongst other things, Educational Research, Evaluation, Learning Technologies, Teaching, Technology Enhanced Learning, Social Networking, Education Policy and Subject Specific Applications of Technology in Education and Learning.
The National Archive of Educational Computing will be at the conference in a Poster Session in the Viscount Suite in the conference venue on Monday 23rd March 2009 from 14.35-15.45.
Abstract for the poster session P23
Connecting the future with the past R. Millwood*, Core Education UK, UK
This poster reports on the development of a National Archive of Educational Computing (NAEC) which aims to share knowledge about the development of learning with technology through its invention, application, policies, practices, organisations and people over the last half century. The poster also provides an interactive opportunity to contribute oral and written stories to the archive.
The development of educational computing in the UK began in the early 1970s. This has resulted in a wealth of knowledge, experience and artefacts. A collection has been underway since the early nineties and a large amount of material is stored. Many individuals have also collected key material and would like to inform future knowledge by contributing it to a safe haven. It is timely now to look at these materials and to represent them as an accessible and substantially complete collection of one nation’s pioneering and world-renowned innovation. No existing archive, library or museum has an adequate representation of this material and more importantly very little in the way of narrative, interpretation or analysis is available to the interested public, the education professional nor the policy maker.
The NAEC aims to secure, catalogue and improve a substantial publicly accessible archive of artefacts, software, papers and equipment which represents key events in the history of using computers in learning over 40 years in the United Kingdom in order to inform the public, the education system and policy.
Some existing material is available on the NAEC web site including a section of personal stories. In every case the contributor is invited to describe ‘lessons learnt’ so that the archive not only preserves knowledge for the future, but permits others to benefit from collective hindsight in creating that future.
The poster will help participants address two conference themes: ‘Studying trajectories of exploration and development’ and ‘Future directions’.
