Digital Curriculum - Their Space
The way young people use technology outside school is changing and so are the ways they learn. This project, funded by the NCSL, aims to explore how schools should respond to children's informal learning with digital media such as games consoles, the internet and mobile phones.
- schools and social networking The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released the overview of their latest study on teens' usage of social network sites. As danah boyd comments, most of the data is not surprising, but it is interesting. Here are some of the key findings: continue reading on 10th January 2007 Comments (1)
- ‘Twas the week after Christmas and all through the office, not a sound could be heard... ...not even a Bop-it, Wii, x-box or any of the other games that we’ve been keeping ourselves amused with over the festive season. Although we use these games to wind down, relax and have fun, Demos are just coming to the end of a piece of research that explores the skills and capabilities that a whole generation of people are developing through their use of games and other new technologies. Through the research we particularly focused on how schools should respond to this... continue reading on 4th January 2007 Comments (1)
- Their Space Podcast It's the seventh Demos podcast, and the first of 2007. It sees Hannah and Celia talking about the report Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. The project, funded by the National College for School Leadership, explores the skills that young people are learning through their use of new technologies and makes suggestions for how schools and policy makers should respond.You can listen in by downloading the mp3 file here, or by subscribing to the podcast feed here. Or, the audio should... continue reading on 4th January 2007
- Joining up the dots The more we find about young people's changing relationship with digital media the more questions this raises about their future as students and employees. Just as some schools find it difficult to capitalise on the creative and technological skills of many of their pupils, so organisations risk overlooking the new skills of young graduates. As the recent Demos publication Working Progress demonstrated, employers think new graduates are arriving without with the skills needed to navigate the... continue reading on 30th August 2006