event: Distributed Ignorance and the Unthinking Machine: The Challenges of Teaching History and Computing

Saturday, 17th November 2007
The National Archives, Kew, London

"We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs

"much pleasure would be lost on the unthinking machine" Ione Dobson, creator of the last 'hand made' concordance.

This year's AHC-UK Conference debates the role of computing in history teaching, what should be taught, when and how. What does the provision of ICT training, or the lack of, mean for the future of the discipline? Is it possible to identify a core set of ICT skills that graduates should have?

Conference programme and registration is now available at:

[[http://www.ahc.ac.uk/conf.htm|AHC-UK Web Site]]