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A day event on 1st July at the RSA, presenting innovative ideas about how computer science can connect with the Arts in the context of education. Contributors include Ian Livingstone, author of the NESTA Next Gen report; John Naughton, University of Cambridge; Kylie Peppler, University of Indiana; Ivan Kalas, Comenius University, Bratislava; Andrew Burn, Richard Noss, … Continue reading
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A day seminar on the current state of Arts in Education, at the BFI Southbank, June 21st. The day will include the third Harold Rosen lecture, given by Jonothan Neelands, University of Warwick, entitled “Dramatic Futures: why the Arts and Humanities should reclaim the curriculum”. The day will present innovative approaches to arts education in … Continue reading
Children, Media and Playground Cultures, by Rebekah Willett, Chris Richards, Jackie Marsh, Andrew Burn, Julia Bishop. This co-authored book is an outcome of ethnographic studies of play in two UK playgrounds, one in London, one in Sheffield. The studies formed part of the project Children’s Playground Games and Songs in the New Media Age. The … Continue reading
MAGiCAL Projects is a new enterprise of the IOE, based at the London Knowledge Lab. It is a combination of R&D, building softwares for creative work in education, and a commercial venture, bringing such solutions to schools and other education sites. It builds on research and development work we have done in the past with … Continue reading
Sound School at Campus, Friday 16th November, 7pm To mark the culmination of Sound School, a SoundCloud fellowship project, there was a discussion on tech and music education at Campus London (powered by Google) on Friday, 16th November. The event was an official partner of Internet Week Europe, a festival celebrating Europe’s dynamic and vibrant internet industry. … Continue reading
This project was funded as one of 30 pilots under the AHRC’s Digital Transformations programme. It developed an authoring tool for young people to use to make computer games based on Macbeth. It was a collaboration between the DARE research centre at the Institute of Education, University of London, Shakespeare’s Globe, Immersive Education Ltd, and … Continue reading
The second Harold Rosen lecture was given at the British Library by Shirley Brice Heath. Part of the UKLA international symposium Ways of Reading, it was entitled Deciphering Landscapes of Reading. The podcast of this lecture can be downloaded from http://www.ukla.org/conferences/ . The Harold Rosen lectures are given in memory of the influential educator and teacher whose work … Continue reading
Professor Andrew Burn, Dr John Potter and Dr Becky Parry won a grant from First Light to make and research young people’s film-making in London, Cambridge and Sheffield. The project is a collaboration with Mark Reid and Michelle Cannon at the BFI, the Sheffield Showroom, the University of Leeds, James Durran from Parkside Federation, the … Continue reading
