The “Death of Distance” or Sharing and Playing: Computers and Networks in Education and Learning

Description

This webinar will critique the uses of computers and networks in teaching, educating and learning. These are still too few and far between, not to mention misguided.

All too often, network uses are better informed than the systems, schools and institutions that are charged with teaching. In a participatory world, participants are often those who lead the way. Actors and stakeholders in the educational enterprise need to make informed, assertive and constructive use of social networks. Networks are where our students spend their time, and where knowledge is constructed, shared and stored. It is the educators’ responsibility to infuse the news with content based on sharing and play. These two components, sharing and play, are major parts of the future of education and learning in a networked world. We need to better understand and leverage them.

About the speaker:

Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli (B.A., Haifa University, M.A. Ohio State University, M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University) is Director of the the Sagy Center for Internet Research (InfoSoc, the Center for the Study of the Information Society) and Head of the Graduate School of Management, University of Haifa Israel. He also leads the “Games for Exectives Project”. Previously, he served as head of the Information Systems area at the GSB in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, since 1986. Prof. Sheizaf has published extensive material on the topic of computers as media throughout journals, weekly columns for financial and business newspapers, online news portals and more.

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