John Potter is in Finland for a Finnish Government funded seminar and writing retreat as part of Finland’s aim to introduce ‘Multiliteracies’ into their curriculum for all schools. John was invited to contribute by Prof Kristiina Kumplainen from the University of Helsinki who is co-ordinating the event which brings together a group of academics from Finland, Australia, the US and
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From the invention of the alphabet to the explosion of the internet, Dominic Wyse takes us on a unique journey into the process of writing. Starting with seven extraordinary examples that serve as a backdrop to the themes explored, it pays particular attention to key developments in the history of language, including Aristotle’s grammar through socio-cultural multimodality, to pragmatist philosophy
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Dominic Wyse will be keynoting at this year’s Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) and The Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) conference in Perth on 8 – 11 July 2018. The conference theme is The Art of English: Language, Literature, Literacy, and the emphasis will be on how to harness and build students’ creativity as part of language,
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John Potter is in Melbourne attending The Young Creative Connected Master Symposium hosted by REDI – Research for Educational Impact: Deakin University’s Strategic Research Centre for research in Education – whose theme is Youth Provision in a Global Age: https://yccnetwork.net/ycc-deakin-october-2017/ The event aims to: “bring together diverse perspectives to describe, theorize, and imagine how to address the current crises of
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Dr Diane Carr is giving the keynote address at UCL’s first Interdisciplinary conference on disability. See the conference site for details of themes, dates and deadlines.
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On 21 September 2017, DARE’s John Potter will be giving a key note at a gala dinner in Sarajevo at the Media Meets Literacy conference. John chaired the jury for this year’s Evens Prize for Media Education 2017 which seeks out innovative approaches to media literacy. The dinner incorporates the Evens prize-giving ceremony, and John will be presenting the overall winner
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Dr John Potter will give a keynote talk at the Valuing the Visual in Literacy Research conference, 4-5th July 2917. The talk is entitled De-‘othering’ everyday visual practices: Dynamic literacies, third spaces and curation. Literacy research is concerned with exploring and representing the many ways in which humans make and share meanings in their everyday practices. These are essentially dynamic
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Playing Beowulf – a workshop as part of the UCL Festival of Culture, run by Bruno de Paula, Abel Drew, Theo Bryer and Jane Coles, and organised by Vicky Symons. Saturday 10 June | 11:00 – 15:00 | Institute of Advanced Studies, Common Ground, Wilkins Building Free Event We’ve seen books and comics turned into films and plays, and vice
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Workshop participants in Bergen, Norway, have made a Videogame of the story of Beowulf, led by DARE’s Andrew Burn and Bruno de Paula. The workshop was part of the DTAE (Digital Technology in Arts Education) at the University of Bergen. Workshop participants were arts educators, working with music, art, literature, and media education. Using the DARE software Missionmaker, developed by
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On May 2nd DARE celebrated its 5th anniversary with an afternoon of presentations and discussions about media literacy in the UK and Europe at the UCL Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education. Speakers from the the e-Mel Project and a range of other contexts presented their most recent research and discuss policy and pedagogy around media literacy. Andrew Burn introduced the
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