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Sinopse
This podcast series features inspirational talks by some of the most innovative educational consultants and developers in the world. They have been recorded at the Urban Learning Space in The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland.Urban Learning Space is a learning lab equipping the people of Scotland with the capabilities to face the challenges of 21st century life.Urban Learning Space was established with core funding from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. We are working with people around Scotland to address real life challenges. Our network of experts are using transformational design practice to promote individuals capacities for change. Nurturing an innate capacity for learning by using collaborative design processes, we create new approaches. These range from the building of creativity tools to support innovation, transforming public spaces into learning landscapes, and harnessing emerging technologies to explore new learning contexts.
Episódios
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![Designing Technology for Social Change, part 3]()
Designing Technology for Social Change, part 3
28/03/2007 Duração: 36minCurrently Assistant Professor in the University of California’s Department of Visual Arts, Natalie was previously Lecturer Convertible in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University, Consultant to the Advanced Computer Graphics Center, NYU, and Distinguished Critic in the Department of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. One of America's top young digital pioneers, she has been named one of the top 100 young innovators by the MIT Technology Review and was a 1999 Rockefeller Fellow.
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![Designing Technology for Social Change, part 2]()
Designing Technology for Social Change, part 2
28/03/2007 Duração: 01h09minNatalie's work has been exhibited in museums in New York, Frankfurt and London. Within this event, Natalie showed how she creates such innovative and unique projects: from the process of idea generation to assembling a collaborative team, with the aim of the transformative potential of new technologies, particularly information technology, for social change.
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![Designing Technology for Social Change, part 1]()
Designing Technology for Social Change, part 1
28/03/2007 Duração: 01h21minNatalie Jeremijenko is a design engineer and techno-artist who has built digital, electromechanical and interactive systems. Specific issues addressed in her work include information politics, the examination and development of new modes of knowledge, tangible media and distributed (or ubiquitous) computing elements.
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![Has lifelong learning had its day?]()
Has lifelong learning had it's day?
28/03/2007 Duração: 48minProfessor Field discussed changes in the area of lifelong learning since the late 1990s, exploring the challenges to the vision of lifelong learning which include funding and content issues and considered these in conjunction with the growth in self-governed learning, and contrasted with the increased regulation of people's learning lives. Factors involved in helping to create and perpetuate unequal participation in different types of learning were identified.
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![Designing technologies to support creativity and collaboration]()
Designing technologies to support creativity and collaboration
23/03/2007 Duração: 39minYoung people are increasingly using digital technologies to support creativity and collaboration outside the school. This seminar explored the following questions : What sorts of tools are young people using out of school today? What sorts of activities are they involved with in online environments? The seminar also explored what these activities tell us about: emergent forms of creativity and collaboration and new approaches to learning.
