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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Professor Andrew Burn gave a keynote talk at the 11th conference of the International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE) in Tallinn entitled “PLAYFUL LITERACIES: CHILDREN’S DESIGNS OF PLAY FROM PLAYGROUND TO VIDEOGAME”. The abstract can be found at the conference site. The talk presented work from a range of DARE projects on Play and games. The 11th conference of ARLE
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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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Playful Literacies and Dynamic literacies: Valuing third spaces and young people’s agency Talk by: Dr John Potter, UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education, University College London. This talk engaged with notions of play as a dynamic form of engagement with meaning making, ephemeral but important in the lives of children and young people, and throughout the lifecourse. It drew
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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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Schooling & Culture disrupts a culture of individualism, competition and surveillance by claiming a new collective position within, and outside of, the school context through self-representation and lived experience. This journal is an invitation to strengthen solidarity between teachers, students and cultural practitioners by exploring politicised praxes of secondary school teaching in the face of increasing conservative toxicity. The journal
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On Tuesday 2 May, 5.00-7.00 (Room 802): a roundtable discussion on the power and influence of numbers in contemporary culture, exploring critically issues such as data and big data, life tracking, digital health studies, and the quantifiable self. Contributors include Professor Steve Connor (Cambridge, http://stevenconnor.com); Professor Tom Corby (systems artist, https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/corby-tom); Dr Dawn Nafus (Intel, https://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/dawn-nafus); and Dr Sarah Teasley (Head of Programme, History of
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On Tuesday 9 May 2017, 5.00-7.00 (Room 802. UCL Institute of Education): a roundtable discussion on liquid crystals, which will consider screens and screenic culture, liquidity, video, and the materiality of the visible. Contributors are: designer and academic Dr Emily Candela (PhD from the Science Museum/RCA:http://www.emilycandela.co.uk); Professor Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths, University of London, http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/cubitt/); film maker and animation scholar Dr Barnaby Dicker,
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John Richmond’s lecture on 20 March 2017 took the form of a retrospective of Harold Rosen’s work in comprehensive English education over a period of 50 years from 1958 – 2008. What struck me about the talk was the salience of so many of Harold’s progressive ways to potential educational practices in the digital age. Prior to the event, my
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