Raja Roy Singh Lecture
Educational Technology for Creativity, Collaboration and Community
Benjamin B. Bederson, Associate Professor Computer Science, University of Maryland, USA and Co-Founder, International Children's Digital Library, USA
Technology supports education in ways that make teachers and students more efficient, and it offers easy access to the world’s information. But technology can go further by supporting both formal and informal education in many more ways. Technology offers new means for creative expression – from rich multimedia to mobile tools that let students capture the world around them and express themselves in meaningful contexts. Technology offers new means for collaboration – with their classmates and with their peers around the world to work on tasks much larger than they could ever imagine on their own. And technology offers new means for building community and developing meaningful relationships with the people, industries and government around them. In this talk, I will explore some of the rich potential that technology offers to educators and students alike.