Alison Clark-Wilson – School mathematics in the digital age

Alison Clark-Wilson – Professorial Lecture: School mathematics in the digital age: Balancing scaleable innovation with timely exnovation.

Join Alison Clark-Wilson for this Professorial Lecture as she discusses her research in schools that explores the challenges and opportunities for digital technologies that shake the foundations of school mathematics education.

Capturing her professional and academic work over the past 25 years, Alison gives her perspective on the changing nature of digital tools that offer innovative ways of doing, learning and assessing school mathematics.

Mathematics has been, and continues to be, a high-stakes subject in school curricula around the world. Over time, different mathematical tools have been innovated in classrooms, with some also being exnovated (phased out) as "better" ones have come along. But who decides? and how can we stay abreast of digital innovations that move faster than most education systems.

Alison will draw from her design-based research studies that have sought to understand the challenges of sustaining and scaling innovative classroom practices to help activate system-wide developments of school mathematics education in the digital age.

The lecture will be followed by a response from Professor Allison Littlejohn, Pro Vice Provost for the Data Empowered Societies Grand Challenge and a Professor of Learning Technology at IOE.

Audience: This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers, teachers, students, technology developers and policy makers.

Speaker - Professor Alison Clark-Wilson

Alison is a former secondary school mathematics teacher whose professional and academic career involved technological innovations from the outset. Her work has centred around national and international educational initiatives over the last 25 years, which have considered the important, evolving roles of teachers and teaching as innovative technologies come into play.

She has authored and edited 5 books, and approaching 70 publications that aim to make visible some of the opportunities and challenges for educational innovation concerning technology. Most recently, she has co-founded the Global Edtech Testbed Network, which aims to support more sustainable and scaleable approaches to ongoing innovation and exnovation in ways that position teachers and learners at the heart of decision-making.

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