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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MAGiCAL Projects is an enterprise of UCL IOE, based at the UCL 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 Immersive Education, developing the successful games
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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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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
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