Technology isn’t just a subject, it’s a pedagogy

By Leslie Loble
Community contribution / May 9, 2019

In 2009, when Jeanette Wing started advocating for the teaching of information technology in US classrooms alongside reading, writing and arithmetic, she was not convinced her message would find a receptive audience.

Having served in a number of senior research and development roles in industry, government and academia, Wing could see how ...

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By Leslie Loble

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Leslie Loble is Deputy Secretary, External Affairs and Regulation, at the NSW Department of Education. Responsible for national and cross-sectoral developments in education as they affect New South Wales, she guides early childhood policy and funding, policy on non-government schooling, and strategic policy in higher education and tertiary learning. She currently leads Education for a Changing World, a major initiative to redesign education for a future of artificial intelligence and global change and has created the Catalyst Lab to find and scale education innovations. She recently co-authored Future Frontiers: Education in an AI World (Melbourne University Press).

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Technology isn’t just a subject, it’s a pedagogy

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