Shaping Digital Futures

In this episode, we hear a discussion between Matt and a Senior L&D Specialist on how the pandemic has changed the use of Digital Technology in supporting pedagogy and andragogy. Topics covered include the differences in implementation approaches and handling of design requirements between the 2 education methods.Find the full interactive transcript here.

In this episode, Wendy and Echo will be talking about how WeChat is used in people's daily life, how it has changed people's life and will continue to make changes in the future. Find the interactive transcript for this episode here.

In this episode, Yichen Li will be talking about educational video games in this podcast about how educational video games work now, why they have potential in the education space, and what they might become in the future. You find the transcript for this episode here.

In this episode, Brad Watson chats with Education Architect, Dr Aidan McCarthy. In his current role, Aidan heads up K-12 Digital Transformation & Strategy at Microsoft Education.Aidan discusses issues surrounding digital transformation in education, including outdated professional development models and his work with education authorities implementing large scale digital transformation. He also shares his insights on how covid has allowed us to reconsider traditional views on the role of the

You can find the transcript for this episode here. Read the full paper that Tim discusses here: Gender, Digital Literacy and Higher Education Wickens, C.M. and Miller, T. (2020). Gender, Digital Literacies, and Higher Education. In The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education (eds N.S. Niemi and M.B. Weaver-Hightower).https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119257639.ch3

In this episode, we explore the future of schools from a sociological perspective. We chat with Dr Carlo Perrotta from Monash University who brings an interesting perspective to educational technology - through social stories that build on the realities of today's schools, teachers and learners. You can read the paper we talk about here. Download the full transcript here

This week we explore the idea of robots in the classroom. Did you make, program or drive robots when you were in school? What do you think of today's children having these experiences? Dr Amber McLeod from Monash University leads us in a chat about why teachers are using robots as tools of the future - and why our children need to understand what robots can do, or might be able to do in the future! You can find the full transcript of this episode here.

Join myself, Dr Jo Blannin along with Professor Michael Henderson and Associate Professor Mike Phillips as we introduce the notion of Digital Futures, Wicked Problems and our potential roles in shaping the exciting next steps for education and technology. You can find the full transcript of this episode here.