Use of Technology in Teaching Daily Living Skills to Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (original) (raw)

We are honored to host Professor Gráinne Conole as our keynote speaker for the opening General Session! The title of her address is Slow and Fast Learning with Contemporary Digital Technologies. Digital technologies offer a rich variety of ways in which learners and teachers can interact, communicate and collaborate across formal, informal and non-formal learning contexts. Smart phones and tablets enable interaction across different time frames and boundaries. Social media mean learners and teachers can be part of a global, distributed community of peers with access to a vast variety of information, available at unprecedented scale. The pace of change is only likely to continue, and new technologies continue to emerge; for example, materials for learning across boundaries, surfaces, and multiple devices. The impact on education is likely to be profound, as a series of recent Pearsons' videos on the future of Education 2020 testifies. This address will provide an overview of key emergent technologies and reflect on their implications for education. Professor Conole will consider the ways in which technologies increase the speed of interaction and learning and she will argue that we need a slow learning movement, equivalent to the slow eating movement. She draws on relevant current research to argue that to make effective use of digital technologies teachers need new approaches to design, pedagogy, and assessment, as well as more effective use of learning analytics tools. Professor Conole began a new post at the University of Bath Spa in February 2015. Previously, she was professor of learning innovation and director of the Institute of Learning Innovation at the University of Leicester. Professor Conole's research interests include: the use, integration and evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies and e-learning, research on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), new approaches to designing for learning, e-pedagogies, social media and the impact of technologies on organisational change. She regularly blogs on www.e4innovation.com and her Twitter ID is @gconole. She has successfully secured funding from the EU, HEFCE, ESRC, JISC and commercial sponsors). She was awarded an HEA National Teaching Fellowship in 2012. And is also a fellow of EDEN and ASCILITE. She has published and presented over 1000 conference proceedings, workshops and articles, including the use and evaluation of learning technologies. Professor Conole has recently published a Springer book entitled Designing for Learning in an Open World and she is currently working on a Routledge book on practical learning design.