One of the most exciting projects I was involved with at infoDev was a website that aims to bring together knowledgeable people to debate the appropriate role of technology in education around the world. The aptly named Educational Technology Debate is already in its fifth month of existence and has hosted great discussions about 1:1 vs. communal computing, the effectiveness of ICT, and mobile phones vs. personal computers.

This month’s debate focuses on the educational content needed for teaching:

Will educational systems, and the stakeholders that support them, be able to adapt existing and new content onto these devices? Might this adaptation facilitate a more egalitarian content creation structure, challenging the existing pricing structures and vested interests of current curriculum production & dissemination models?

In addition, should this content focus on ebooks and other electronic media that replicates existing content? Or is this an opportunity to change the way in which content is created, teacher’s educate, and students learn?

We have two experts, Richard Rowe and Angus Scrimgeour, who will lead the debate, but we’ve tried to make this as interactive as we can, so post your thoughts in the comments and help shape the discussion.