GLOBAL CONFLICTS ONLINE - TECHNOLITERACY AND DEVELOPING AN INTERNET-BASED CONFLICT ARCHIVE

In this paper, we critically reflect upon the place of the Internet as a teaching and learning resource in the educational environment. In o rder to do this we use our experience teaching a large undergraduate c ourse on the geography of global conflict, into which we integrated a course web-site featuring an archive of conflicts around the globe. We discuss issues that arose from the design and maintenance of this web site and its usefulness as a learning resource. However, going beyond this, we use our experience to offer a number of elements we consider necessary for the development of a theoretically informed critical te chnoliteracy something which is required to allow both instructors and students to critically engage with the types of representational powe r, ideological hype, and human-machine networks that are elements of n ew informational technology conditioned educational environments.