Online all the time Teachers work in the digital age

Published: Nov. 5, 2015, 10:53 a.m.

b'Professor Neil Selwyn, Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminars series. This seminar explores the ways in which digital technologies are now implicated in teachers\\u2019 work and labour. Drawing upon in-depth ethnographic studies of three Australian high schools, Neil will detail the ways in which teachers\\u2019 work is now enacted along digital lines \\u2013 often in notably intensified, standardized and evidenced ways. However, these research findings also raise questions regarding the extent to which these digitisations can be said to constitute wholly \\u2018new\\u2019 labour conditions \\u2013 pointing to continuities and disjunctures between teachers\\u2019 work with and without digital technology. As such, Neil will also consider the differentiated experiences of these conditions across teaching workforces. We conclude by considering how more equitable and/or empowering working conditions might be achievable through alternate uses of digital technology.'