Thursday, May 29

Times listed in this program are Pacific Daylight Time (Victoria, BC)

Victoria, BC

Santa Fe, NM

Toronto, ON

11:00 - 12:00 PDT | Keynote | Thomas Reeves

Reframing Togetherness: Shifting our Focus from Technology to Problems

Note

This session was recorded and the recording is available at the link below.

Link to Zoom Recording

Keeping in mind the overall theme of “Reframing Togetherness,” this presentation will emphasize the need to change the focus of our research in educational technology from “things” such as Generative AI or Virtual Reality to serious problems such as educational inequity or absenteeism. Unfortunately, much of our research continues to be focused on things rather than problems. Today, I will present an updated and more urgent perspective on this issue. I will recommend three important directions for research in our field.

  1. We must conduct research in ways that influence practice.
  2. Our research must rigorously account for time-on-task and other hidden factors.
  3. Our research must clarify the nature of innovations using a common set of critical learning design factors.