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The Philosophy of Technology-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group Symposium
Do educational technologies demand a re-thinking of representation? The emergence of the Internet and other new technologies prioritises a range of important questions including issues of generic images, abstract reason, representations as tools, epistemic action, mediation and pictorial communication. Such philosophical questions are germane to our understanding of education and learning in the new millennium, and create an agenda for philosophy which this Symposium aims to facilitate. Some relevant thinkers include Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom, McDowell, the Toronto School, Derrida, Stiegler, Dewey, Vygotsky, Hutchins (distributed cognition), and Rogers and Scaife (external cognition) and many others. One aim of the Symposium will be to identify a set of primary questions in the philosophy of educational technology and to map out the territory in which these questions are currently considered.
Friday 27th May
1315
Lunch
1400
Introduction to the Symposium
Dr Jan Derry, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education
1405
Keynote - The Networked Mind Professor Kristóf Nyíri, Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1445
Is my Mobile part of my Mind? Dr John Preston, Philosophy Department, University of Reading
1525
Tea
1545
1545
1615
1645
1715
1730
1800
Short contribution sessions (ten minute concise inputs followed by twenty minutes of discussion) Chair: Dr David Guile, Institute of Education, University of London
Professor Mike Sharples, Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Learning, University of Birmingham, Developing a Theory of Mobile Learning
Dr Jan Derry, The London Knowledge Lab, Epistemology and Conceptual Resources for the Development of Learning Technologies
Professor Bruno Bachimont, Université de Technologie de Compiègne
Remediating the Mind: intellectual technologies and knowledge reconfigurations
Break
Dr Russell Beale, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Representing the Future
Dr Don Peterson, The London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education The Filtering Problem
1930
Symposium Dinner
Saturday 28th May
0930
Thematic group discussions (see briefing note sheet)
1030 -
1130
Keynote - Alternative Conceptions of Representation in Contemporary Cognitive Science Professor Chaba Pléh, Professor of Psychology at Budapest University of Technology and Economics and visiting Professor at Indiana University, USA.
1130
Coffee
1145 -
1245
Thematic group discussions
12.45
13.00
Interim progress report led by Mike Sharples (Learning Sciences)/Jan Derry (Philosophy)
1300 -
1345
Lunch
1345 -
1445
Thematic discussions continued
1445 -
1515
Plenary
1515
Tea
1530 -
1630
Kaleidoscope Philosophy of Technology-Enhanced Learning SIG planning meeting
Philosophy of Technology-Enhanced Learning Symposium:
Notes for the Thematic Group Discussions
The aims of the Symposium
To explore how specific approaches in philosophy relate to the question of representation in the design, development and application of new technologies
To consider how these approaches demand a re-thinking of representation
To attempt to encapsulate and map approaches to the question of representation and mediated mind in technology-enhanced learning
Structure of the thematic group discussions
Each group has a Chair and we suggest appointing a Rapporteur who will take notes that will be coordinated later and shared amongst all the seminar participants.
The groups will meet three times: At the start of the second day prior to the second keynote, after the keynote followed by an interim progress feedback (reporting on themes emerging in group discussions) and finally after lunch followed by a Plenary.
(It is intended that the SIG web site will provide background support for the discussion and all participants are encouraged to post their own work or other relevant papers).
Suggestions for discussion points
We suggest the following general questions to initially structure each thematic group discussion:
What are the important issues that have been raised during the presentations and follow-on discussions yesterday that you would like to discuss further in thematic group sessions?
What other related issues and/or work are there that have not yet been discussed and in what ways can it be brought into the discussion?
In what way can we constructively map the territory in which questions of representation and mediated mind can be considered and in what way can you contribute to this process through the Philosophy of Technology-enhanced learning special interest group.
Attendees
Csaba Pleh
Center of Cognitive Science,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
& Indiana University, USA.
John Preston
Department of Philosophy, University of Reading
Bruno Bachimont
Université de Technologie de Compiègne - France
Mike Sharples
Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Learning,
University of Birmingham
Russell Beale
School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham
Leif Chr. Lahn
Institute for Educational Research,
University of Oslo, Norway
Zsuzsanna Kondor
Institute for Philosophical Research,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Vera Bekes
Institute for Philosophical Research,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Viktor Bedo
Institute for Philosophical Research,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Kristof Nyiri
Institute for Philosophical Research,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Rupert Wegerif
School of Education, University of Southampton
Annamaria Carusi
School of Education, University of Southampton
Daisy Mwanza
Computing Research Centre, Open University
& IET User Lab, Institute of Educational Technology
Olga Fragou
Educational Technology Lab, School of Philosophy, Faculty of Pedagogy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Charles Crook
Learning Sciences Research Institute,
University of Nottingham
Daniela Cerqui
Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading
& Institute of Anthropology and Sociology,
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences,
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Anne Light
Queen Mary College, University of London
Andrew Brown
Institute of Education, University of London
Jerry Hewitt
Institute of Education, University of London
Sylvia Weir
Associate Fellow, London Knowledge Lab
Jan Derry
London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education,
University of London
Donald Peterson
London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education,
University of London
Arthur Bakker
London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education,
University of London
David Guile
London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education,
University of London
Martin Oliver
London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education,
University of London
Sara Price
London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education,
University of London
Tim Neumann
London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education,
University of London
Kevin Walker
London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education,
University of London
Caroline Pelletier
London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education,
University of London
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