We have an excellent collection of seminars coming up next year, to include talks from Celia Lury, Cormack O'Keefe, Keri Facer, Ben Williamson and Cathrine Hasse. These colleagues will talk about work of urgent contemporary interest: educational data and its production, digital methods, community engagement and posthumanism.
An important new report has been released on new ways of teaching and learning and their implications for higher education policy. With Jeff Haywood as lead author, the report presents the findings of a study funded by European Commission during 2014-15.
Andrew Manches (with Judy Robertson, Gnanathusharan Rajendran and Peter McKenna) has been awarded a research incentive grant by the Carnegie Trust to investigate the role of embodiment in the way individuals think about basic Computing concepts.
At the Children and Technology group we are always thinking about how to communicate our research to the public!
In case you missed the Fringe in August, the Children and Technology Group’s Dr Andrew Manches supported the BBC during their Digital Weekend by sharing some computing activities.
We want to contribute ever more to events like this in the future, so if you are interested, keep posted on our news feed for information about upcoming appearances.
With the evolution of technology moving at an ever faster pace, how do changes in the ways children interact with technology affect they way they think and learn?
Dr Andrew Manches discusses this issue from experience working with children in the following video.
