Description: Hello, my name is Michael Hammond and I am now Emeritus Reader in Education Studies at the University of Warwick. Within this site I have news about recent books, lists of publications and stored materials for teaching, most recently this has been in Kazakhstan and Prague. The site also contains my blog page which goes…
In a book I have been writing about technology I used the example of online chess as way of signalling the power and sophistication of computing. If you follow the debates over the past 30 or 40 years we have gone from wondering if a computer could ever play a decent game of chess to a situation when a freely downloadable programme can beat all but the very strongest players, with each move taking little more than a blink of the eye [1]. Equally impressive if we stop to think about it is the power that to
I had the opportunity to reflect on using technology in teaching and learning post lock down at the International Conference on ‘ICT as a Tool for Digitalization of Education (ICTTDE) 2023’. Here is a summary of my talk for those at the conference and may be for those not.
What we can learn about digital technology from the recent lockdowns