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Editorial - Professional knowledge communities of practice: building teacher self-efficacy
No full text“I am not really sure how to explain”: marketing augmented reality experiences to new audiences
No full textIf the immersive sector is to fully move beyond engaging the early technology adoptors and is to capture mass audiences from different corners of the cultural landscape, then gateway promotional content must be developed – that is, marketing that engages those new to immersive technologies. How, though, can the magic of 3D worlds be communicated via 2D media? Addressing this current industry challenge, the Immersive Promotion Design team was funded by StoryFutures Academy in 2020 to identify new promotional strategies for how virtual and augmented reality experiences can be better marketed to today’s audiences. This article outlines our approach to applying research into new ways of marketing VR/AR to a set of marketing materials we prototyped for Studio McGuire’s The Invited, a CreativeXR-funded experience that reimagines the story of Dracula with a pop-up book and AR technology. I also discuss the results of evaluating The Invited’s research-informed promotion on audience, outlining key learnings about how to communicate the magic of AR content to new audiences
On movement, rhythm and data [blog post]
No full textChief Editor Christina J. Chua speaks to choreographer Susan Sentler and musician-coder Jamie Forth about their collaborations in the fields of technology, choreography and more
Fashion's hidden carbon footprint
No full textA lecture for Climate Exp0, part of the COP26 Universities Network, and their section on mitigation solutions
The research-informed teaching revolution - early years
No full textResearch Informed teaching is big news! Indeed one might argue that there has been a bottom up revolution encouraging teachers’ use of research (e.g. ResearchED). But at the same time there is a gap between what teachers do and what research suggests might provide effective ways to support young children’s learning. It’s not that a wealth of educational research doesn’t exist (just look at the What Works Clearinghouse, the Best Evidence Encyclopaedia or Hattie’s Visible Learning), but the Early Years sector is often under-represented. This book is an attempt to address this disparity and provide Early Years leaders and practitioners with an understanding of how to embed this research within their everyday practice offering top tips of how others in the field have done this and considering topics such as outdoor learning, early writing skills and parental engagement. Drawing on the wisdom of those at the top of their game, this book intends to provide just that: a practical handbook for EYs practitioner and leaders that can help make the research use revolution a reality
Open shop: technological change in London’s printing industry, 1980–1992
No full textThis chapter adds to the discussion of how technological transformation occurred in London’s printing businesses between 1980–1992. By plotting the shift in power between the print Unions and the print consumer, it argues that the impact of digital technologies on practices in the workplace was a slow and complex process. As we shall see, the 1980s and 1990s were a time of political upheaval that drove complications with technological use. Analysing what Thomas Misa has called ‘sociotechnical change’ enables us to examine the social and technological entanglements that drive industrial transformation. This chapter explores what technological change looked like from the perspective of multiple actors. Questioning training through teaching apprenticeships and on-the-spot training within the workplace allows for this. We shall see how training print workers in digital technologies took time, money and required different skills that were not easily embedded. We shall also observe that by changing who and what was being taught, industrial transformation was perpetuated. Oral history work provides a focus for understanding as does archival document research, including an examination of trade literature and Union minutes. Together, such sources give a view from a variety of responses to industrial transformation
Personal principles for a roadmap to educational recovery in the 'Covid decade'
Get PDFThe Government's roadmap to recovery from the educational deficit caused by Covid-19 appears to pivot, primarily, on 'catch-up' plans and 'discipline hubs'. Despite continuous teaching online and in Covid-restricted classroom formats, teachers have been urged to act like 'absolute heroes' and abide by their 'moral duty' to keep schools open. However, neither appeals to 'heroic' duty nor Nolan's "Seven Principles of Public Life", are likely to provide the conceptual underpinning required of a roadmap to meet the complex challenges of children's new learning needs or enhance their wellbeing. This article offers an alternative approach to educational principles for navigating the unchartered territory of the 'Covid decade' now unfolding
