News
Family event 11 Nov: Help! My teacher is a robot! 2017 ESRC Festival of Social Science
Saturday 11 November 12 noon - 4pm, Ocean Terminal
Welcoming new colleagues and visitors
New researchers and visiting scholars at the Centre for Research in Digital Education
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.
New projects in digital play and literacy development
Researchers looking at relationships between children and technology have received funding for two new projects:
Digital Play
Professor Lydia Plowman and a team at Moray House School of Education have been awarded funding by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) to design, develop and evaluate an eight-week online course on digital play for parents and health workers. They will work in partnership with Playbase, NHS Lothian, and City of Edinburgh Council.
Computational thinking course for Edinburgh primary teachers
Are you a primary teacher in Edinburgh? Do you want to learn more about how to teach children computational thinking? Come to our free CPL course, starting in September 2016.
Children and Technology at Edinburgh International Science Festival
Andrew Manches, Judy Robertson, Lydia Plowman and other colleagues and students will be running a drop-in workshop on Children and Technology as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival.