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Towards a digital future
Following the amazing success of the eFEST presentation (see ‘The end of the citadel’ below), Sean has been invited to take part in an even more ambitious experiment. On 29 November he will be giving a multi-media keynote address to the top 250 business leaders in New Zealand via using high definition video links and some amazing new technology. The talk, which follows on from a speech by the Acting Prime Minister, will show how that technology can support ‘borderless’ learning and help employees take their place within a global knowledge economy.
The whole talk can be watched live by webcast - the various options are listed at http://www.r2.co.nz/20071128/
We’ll also be broadcasting the event on Second Life - click here if you have an avatar and want to watch.
The end of the citadel? From make do to make new.
Stakeholder Design led a unique experiment as part of eFEST, the Polytechnics and Institutes of Technology of New Zealand annual conference. Sean presented the keynote address using two high definition web streams from Slough, England, direct to the conference at Wellington Town Hall. A video was made at both ends and it is now being edited into a podcast for download.
The event was covered in the New Zealand press. You can read a report by clicking here.
Project Faraday - Exemplar designs for science
Stakeholder Design has been appointed by the DfES as a project partner for Project Faraday - an ambitious attempt to redefine the science learning experience in British schools.
Speaking in Parliament, Jim Knight, Minister of State for Schools, described Project Faraday as part of a “strategy to deliver the best in science teaching and learning.”
He added: “Teams of leading designers and educationalists with expertise in science teaching will develop a range of exemplar designs for school science laboratories by mid-2007. Science demonstration projects will then be built to provide practical examples, to act as benchmarks and to disseminate the learning. We will evaluate the project over a number of years.”
Stakeholder Design is working with DEGW (an international architecture firm), Arup (ICT), At Large (exhibition design) and Manchester Metropolitan University’s Education team. Two schools have been selected as partners and hosts of the resulting designs: East Barnet School in London and Abraham Guest School in Wigan.
An intelligent fountain?
Stakeholder Design has been selected as one of only two recipients of funding in Futurelab’s latest call for ideas. Futurelab’s biannual competition, which attracted over 200 entries, provides up to £100,000 in funding for ideas that could help to transform the face of education. Stakeholder Design’s idea was to work with primary school children to conceive and build an intelligent fountain, capable of interacting with passers-by. The fountain will be owned and managed by the children, who will engage in collaborative and cross-curriculum learning as well as developing higher order thinking skills.
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Towards a new paradigm
The Institute of Education in London has asked Stakeholder Design to co-organise a one-day conference on how educational provision needs to change over the next 20 years. This prestigious conference, to be held on Wednesday 18 April, 2007, will challenge normal conventions of what teaching in 2020 will look like, with talks and workshops from internationally respected thought-leaders and young people working to make schools more interesting to end users.
Click here for more information and an application form.
Meet Stakeholder Design
Next talk:
Thursday 29 November, 9.15am (NZ time), Digital Futures Summit, Auckland, New Zealand:
Keynote speech: "Lifelong learning: the danger of the classroom"
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