Children & Technology: towards interdisciplinary collaboration
RLUK Conference: Culture, Code, Silence, Surveillance
Dr Philippa Sheail will speak at the Research Libraries UK conference at the British Library (14th March 2018): 'Culture, Code, Silence, Surveillance: The changing spaces of the research library'
New project: Lecture Recording for Inclusive Eduction
Dr Jeremy Knox has received a grant from the Principal's Teaching Award Scheme to research the use of lecture recording at the University of Edinburgh, and the extent to which this technology fosters inclusive educational practices.
Family event 11 Nov: Help! My teacher is a robot! 2017 ESRC Festival of Social Science
Saturday 11 November 12 noon - 4pm, Ocean Terminal
Research Assistant Vacancy - 'Data Bodies in the Library'
Applications are invited for the post of Research Assistant to support the ‘Data Bodies in the Library’ research project, exploring the relationships between library software, data, physical space, and library users http://www.de.ed.ac.uk/project/data-bodies-library The post-holder will be based at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at Moray House School of Education.
Read Sian Bayne's article on WonkHE looking at social media and anonymity in universities.
What are the implications for students and universities of anonymous social media? An article on WonkHE gives a brief account our research into the - now defunct - anonymous social media app Yik Yak, showing that the social value of anonymity was considerable for many of the students that used it. In this article Sian Bayne makes the case of a reconsideration of anonymous social media, and for wider thinking around the privacy issues surrounding how students use other forms of social media.
Welcoming new colleagues and visitors
New researchers and visiting scholars at the Centre for Research in Digital Education
New project with the University of Sydney: Methodological Innovations for Assessing Learning in Digital Spaces.
A collaboration with the Centre for Research in Learning and Innovation at the University of Sydney, developing and researching innovative pedagogical and methodological approaches to designing and assessing student learning in digital spaces.
Read Lydia Plowman's review of 'Invisibly Blighted: The Digital Erosion of Childhood’
Professor Lydia Plowman has written a book review of Invisibly Blighted: The Digital Erosion of Childhood by Sandra Leaton Gray and Andy Phippen. The review is published in Times Higher Education (1 June 2017):
New large grant to research full body interactive museum exhibits for pre-school scientists
Children and Technology have received a large grant to explore how sensing and interaction technologies can be used to help pre-school children think, learn and communicate about science and technology.
Move2Learn is funded by Wellcome and led in the UK by Andrew Manches in partnership with UCL and the Glasgow Science Centre.