Professor Andrew Manches

Chair in Children and Technology

Professor Andrew Manches is Chair in Children and Technology and Director of the Children and Technology group. He is a past ESRC Future Research Leader and now leads the UK side of a $2.4million Science Learning+ project with the US. He leads/has led various funded projects centred around the role of interaction in how we think and learn, and the implications for early learning technologies. He marries his academic world with industry as CEO of an early learning technology company, Pling Ltd. Email:  a.manches@ed.ac.uk. Call on: 0131 651 6242

 

Or write/visit here:
Room 4.16, St John's Land
The Moray House School of Education and Sport
Holyrood Road
Edinburgh EH8 8AQ

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STEM Education game launch: STEM Charades

Prof Andrew Manches developed STEM Charades, a fun, interactive, gesture game that builds communication skills, confidence, and a deeper understanding of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Graduation: MSc Education Futures

On Friday 1 December, the first cohort of students graduated from the MSc in Education Futures, which is offered through the Edinburgh Futures Institute

New Project

Professor Andrew Manches together with partners from SSERC, Pling and Dynamic Earth, have successfully obtained ESRC Impact Acceleration Account funding to develop new embodied learning resources.

Projects

Artificial Intelligence for the Early Years

This project aims to generate new knowledge about Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the early years. Funded through the 2025 ARC’s Discovery Projects Scheme, the research will inform a new AI for the Early Years Statement to inform adult-decision making about AI design and use with young children.

Feeling the Untouchable: Haptic touch experiences for naturalistic learning

Prof Laura Colucci-Gray and Prof Andrew Manches (Project co-leads (UK)) have been successful with their new project “Feeling the Untouchable: Haptic touch experiences for naturalistic learning”, receiving a £922,000 grant through round one of UKRI’s highly competitive cross-council scheme designed to stimulate exciting new interdisciplinary research.

Counting at Home

This project looks at how parents help children learning to count home in order to deliver new understanding of children’s early mathematical experiences..