Symposium Description

The increasingly symbiotic relationship between society and digital technology suggests that studying one is impossible without studying the other. Technological innovations are fueled by a seemingly ever-growing demand for sophisticated communication devices that serve multiple purposes such as voice and data communication, personal information access points, collaboration tools, multimedia recording and editing, data presentation, GPS, measurement instruments - just to name a few. Simultaneously, society is being shaped by the power and ubiquity of technological devices and processes that serve us... sometimes to the point of addiction. Over the past 150 years, technological advances and research in medicine served to improve general health and extend life expectancies. Today, there is a need to focus on digital technologies in education to understand how its sociological and technological interdependencies can have similar effects on education over the next 50 years. This Ed-Media pre-conference symposium will explore these interrelationships.