On Friday 12th February Lawrie Phipps, (JISC Programme Manager, Users and Innovation) gave the inaugural presentation for the University’s Teaching and Learning Directorate’s  ‘Talking about Teaching’ seminar series.

Lawrie, who in a previous career, was one of the Univeristy’s first Learning Technologists in the mid 1990s before moving onto TechDis and JISC  gave an excellent and entertaining session to a full house of staff from across the University leaving us with the key messages that:

• Graduates need to see that technology is a tool
• Technology is integrated into our academic practice so that they can treat it as a tool
• Technology is essential to HE, if you can’t engage with it you need to take a long look in the mirror, but that doesn’t mean that technology is central to your practice.

His presentation referred to the 52group‘s paper on Preparing for the postdigital era

and the presentation is here: