Last month, Professor Judy Robertson joined a panel of experts and practitioners for a Holyrood events and Nesta roundtable discussion on the topic 'Education and the fourth industrial revolution'.
At Glasgow Science Centre (GSC), we have been focusing on children’s understanding of balance using an existing balance board exhibit and pre/post-interviews with the describe, predict, explain format. Our early studies with children indicated that children’s interaction with the balance board led to them using balance-type gestures in post-interaction interviews.
Our burgeoning research cluster (https://www.digitaleducationafrica.org/) of Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, the University of Dar es Salaam and the State University of Zanzibar in Tanzania, and Makerere University in Uganda (and the University of Edinburgh of course!) have been lucky enough to receive more funding to continue our work exploring digital education in sub-Saharan Africa, thanks to the
Jeremy Knox, along with colleagues Morgan Currie and Callum McGregor, has been awarded £10,100 from the Edinburgh Futures Institute to publish an open access book from the recent Data Justice event.
SICSA DemoFest annually showcases the best of informatics and computing science research from all of Scotland's Universities. This year's event takes place on Monday 4th November at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, from 4pm-7pm.
On 3rd October Ana Hibert of the Centre for Research in Digital Education led a 24-hour hackathon at the University of Edinburgh to explore new approaches to some of the challenges faced in digital education today. The University of Edinburgh event was joined by more than 1700 participants in 21 separate countries solving 60 challenges in 24 hours as part of DigiEduHack.
The UKRI GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub project have launched their website www.tomorrowscities.org
Tomorrow’s Cities is a 5 year $25m interdisciplinary research hub led by collaborations of local experts and practitioners based in four rapidly developing, multi-hazard-exposed cities, and is supported by an international network of specialists.
The four focus cities, Kathmandu, Nairobi, Quito and Istanbul, face multiple hazards including earthquakes, landslides, flooding and volcanoes.
Ana Hibert of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, supported by Dr Michael Gallagher, recently organised a 24-hour hackathon at the University of Edinburgh to explore new approaches to some of the challenges faced in digital education today. The University of Edinburgh was joined by more than 1700 participants in 21 separate countries solving 60 challenges in 24 hours as part of DigiEduHack.
We are delighted to announce that Greg Michaelson this week joined the Centre for Research in Digital Education as an Honorary Professor.
Greg is a proponent of strong Computational Thinking, as a principled discipline for systematic problem analysis and program construction. He has recently published critiques of classic Computational Thinking as too computation oriented, and of the Logo/Microworld and Objects First approaches. He is a regular contributor to ‘Hello World!’, the magazine of Computing at School and the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Every learner should have the opportunity to learn about computing science, not only about how to code but also about information handling with computers, and data citizenship - how their personal data is used, their legal rights and privacy implications.