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At the end of last month, at the invitation of Ben Williamson, I presented at the first of the ESRC seminar series called Codeacts in Education at the University of Stirling. This series is about all aspects of learning through code / learning to code. This long-ish post is an experiment to…
Diane Carr convened an event at the London Knowledge Lab on Monday December 2nd, as part of her AHRC fellowship on games. The day included her own presentation on representations of disability in games, as well as presentations by Helen Kennedy and Tanya Krzywinska. Below you can see the programme. Monday December 2nd, 10 – 2 pm RSVP email Diane Carr
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This was 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. A LINK TO PODCASTS can be found at the end of the full page. Contributors included Ian Livingstone, author of the NESTA Next Gen report; John Naughton, University of Cambridge; Kylie Peppler, University of
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A day seminar on the current state of Arts in Education, at the BFI Southbank, June 21st. The day included 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 featured innovative approaches to arts education in drama, media, art, music and museums and
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John Potter’s new book Digital Media and Learner Identity: the New Curatorship was launched at the Institute of Education bookshop on December 11th. Many studies of digital education focus on technology rather than on the learners or on what they make and do with the devices they use every day. This book takes a different path, putting the learners and
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The EU Commission – DG Education and Culture, Media and Media Literacy Unit – organised the EU Conference CREATIVE EUROPE – NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR FILM AND MEDIA LITERACY in Brussels on 16th November 2012. The Conference presented an overview of the Commission’s proposal for the Creative Europe Programme and the state of play of the EU media literacy policy. In
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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. The discussion tackled the way
Read moreA DARE event presented for the Culture Capital Exchange INSIDE/OUT FESTIVAL Blue Room, British Film Institute Southbank Thursday October 25th 3 – 5pm This event featured presentations by participants in two projects from the DARE (Digital Arts Research Education) Collaborative at the Institute of Education (IOE), working with partners in the British Film Institute (BFI) and at London’s Globe Theatre.
Read moreThe Culture Capital Exchange (CCE), based at Somerset House, specialises in Knowledge Exchange in the Arts: they are well-networked and broker relationships between academics, cultural institutions and the creative industries. They hold events such as networking opportunities at private views. The Institute of Education is a subscribing member of this network and Lesley Burgess, Andy Ash, Dominic Wyse, Andrew Burn,
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The DARE Collaborative was launched last Friday – 22nd June – at the BFI Southbank. Attendees from arts and media organisations, schools and universities, were treated to a fantastic welcome in the form of a promenade performance by Lambeth schools of work created in response to Hitchcock’s silent film from 1927, The Ring. You can read more about that here.
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