PEARL Centre(Profession, Education and Regulation in Law)

ANU College of Law

Learning/Technology Workshop

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background to papers• The Law Teacher, 2015 special issue, Legal Education

and Information and Communications Technology, ed Paul Maharg & Antoinette Muntjewerff

• The Law Teacher, 2016 special issue, Learning/Technology ed Maharg

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interpreting our theories & practices‘Legal educational discourse is crowded with metaphors and metonymies to explain what we do with technology. “Multimedia”, “e-tutorials”, “learning management system”, “online learning”, even “technology” itself are terms that define how we may (mis-)perceive our current practices. They reveal how we can (mis-)interpret the history of learning/technology – how we sometimes de-historicise it, and thus misunderstand the remarkable development and uses of technologies in earlier societies and cultures. In the process, we can mistake what is happening to our own cultures of learning/technologies now; and our future is thus more difficult to interpret and shape.’Editorial

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aspects of learning/technology in 2017• Always-on mobile, nearly-now web is affecting

culture powerfully• Examples of where we’re heading – Spotify +

Blockchain• But what are the blocks to using these environments

and their cultures in legal education?

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‘Spotify has a long history of spitting out new and interesting features from week-long hackathons. It tells its employees to forget their normal jobs, tackle a problem and solve it in a creative way. The Top Tracks feature that debuted last month was born of a hackathon and now, thanks to another week of blowing off of their regular responsibilities, the company has Touch Preview: a feature designed to aid in the lost art of music discovery.’http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/22/spotifys-touch-preview/

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order of line• Craig CollinsStory interface and strategic design for new law curricula• Kris GreavesComputer-aided qualitative data analysis of social media for teachers and students in legal education• Scott ChamberlainAffordable approaches to simulating legal practiceLUNCH (working…)• Paul MahargDisintermediation• Panel Discussion (ending 1415)

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