10th August, 11am-midday
Craig Steele, Digital Skills Education
James Lamb, Centre for Research in Digital Education
Kati Ahern, State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland
About
Join Craig Steele, James Lamb and Kati Ahern for an interactive workshop that will explore how sound shapes our learning spaces.
Through a series of short exercises we will investigate how the presence, absence and configuration of different kinds of sounds produce conditions that are conducive to learning, whether it takes place in a classroom, at home, a café or any other setting where we write, read, think or perform other educational activities.
Through the generation of live data, we will attempt to create the perfect ‘learning soundscape’, before experiencing how different types of music can nurture or disrupt our environment as we teach and learn.
We will also take time to consider how digital technologies are actively shaping our learning spaces. This event will appeal to learners, teachers, researchers and anyone else with an interest in exploring how we can work with sound to construct positive spaces for learning.
This event will combine a (YouTube) livestream with a browser based interactive activity.
Biographies
Mr Craig Steele, Director, Digital Skills Education
Craig is a computer scientist, educator, published author, and creative technologist helping people develop digital skills in a fun and creative environment. Digital Skills Education develops and delivers exciting projects across Scotland and internationally including CYBER SKILLS LIVE (cyberskillslesson.com) that have to date engaged over 150,000 learners
Dr James Lamb, Centre for Research in Digital Education
James is a Lecturer in Digital Education based in the Centre for Research in Digital Education, where he teaches and researches around digital cultures, learning spaces and multimodality. He is particularly interested in the ways that learning spaces and practices are being affected by the societal and pedagogical shift to the digital. This includes the use of sonic methods to explore how we construct and configure environments to support teaching, learning and other educational activities.
Dr Kati Ahern, State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland
Kati Ahern is an assistant professor of English in the Professional Writing and Rhetoric Program at State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland. Her research focuses on the intersection between sonic rhetoric and writing theory, in particular "rhetorical soundscape studies." Her work appears in journals such as Computers and Composition, Composition Studies, enculturation, and Journal of Basic Writing