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Urban Learning Space Seminars
by Urban Learning Space
This podcast series features inspirational talks by some of the most innovative educational consultants and developers in the world. They have been recorded at the Urban Learning Space in The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland.Urban Learning Space is a learning lab equipping the people of Scotland with the capabilities to face the challenges of 21st century life.Urban Learning Space was established with core funding from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. We are working with people around Scotland to address real life challenges. Our network of experts are using transformational design practice to promote individuals’ capacities for change. Nurturing an innate capacity for learning by using collaborative design processes, we create new approaches. These range from the building of creativity tools to support innovation, transforming public spaces into learning landscapes, and harnessing emerging technologies to explore new learning contexts.
Episodes
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Vital Signs: Marks, Codes and the Future, part 1
Knowing what is the 'next big thing' is a factor in success and survival: no surprise then that the study of signs is known as 'semiotics' from the greek word for oracle. But how does one become good at reading signs and why does it matter so much? Signs dominate everyday life: they can be…
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Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 2)
The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but...
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Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 1)
The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but...
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Learning Spaces, Working Places (part 2)
There is a revolution in the design of learning spaces all round the world and inevitably this is now impacting on the design of corporate space too. As corporations aspire to become learning organisations and move away from their training rooms and training culture they're increasing looking to...
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Learning Spaces, Working Places (part 1)
There is a revolution in the design of learning spaces all round the world and inevitably this is now impacting on the design of corporate space too. As corporations aspire to become learning organisations and move away from their training rooms and training culture they're increasing looking to...
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Understanding the Peer to Peer Revolution
Because of the increased distributed nature of production technology, not just for immaterial production but for physical production as well, it is increasingly possible to imagine modes of social life which combine re-localised production with global open design communities. How can we move away...
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The EUREKA! Process and Pathways to Creativity
Creativity is a highly valuable and desirable quality, which appears to defy our attempts at understanding it. Despite much scientific research effort, creativity remains infuriatingly elusive. It seems that the very act of scientifically researching creativity makes it evaporate like Daphne.…
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Assessment 2.0: Modernising Assessment for the 21st Century
This talk challenged orthodoxy in assessment. The speaker, Bobby Elliot, has overall responsibility for all vocational (ICT) assessment within the college and workplace sectors in Scotland. Bobby has a professional and personal interest in assessment (particularly e-assessment) and digital...
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Everybody Get Loud: Consumer Generated Content Monitoring
In an age where a blog post or a video on YouTube is challenging mainstream media as a source for global attention, it becomes increasingly important for business and the community to be aware of what is happening online in social networking spaces. But when MySpace has 200 million users, and...
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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 3)
The third part of the Podcasting in Creative Business seminar recording is the presentation by each of the three groups to everybody participating of the plans they devised during the afternoon session. We listen to each of the presentations and discuss how we think each one would work in the…
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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 2)
The second recording from the Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contains extracts from the three group discussions. Group one was discussing how to create a podcast series as part of a marketing campaign for Innocent Drinks. Group two were planning to use podcasting in internal...
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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 1)
Part one of the recording from new media production company Inner Ear's Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contextualises the medium, showing how it fits within social networks, online communities and blogging. Examples are drawn from the three areas Inner Ear cover in the course...
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Build Your Own World: User Generated Content, Second Life and Creative Commons
Andres Guadamuz is an academic interested in the ownership implications of new technologies; in particular he researches intellectual property issues in User Generated Content and the so-called Web 2.0 phenomenon. He delivered a presentation in which he looked at the creation of urban spaces…
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Innovation: a Personal View (part 2)
Dr. Chris Yapp's Futures thinking seminar, part two, a group discussion.
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Innovation: a Personal View (part 1)
This event was a three-hour interactive workshop on futures thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. As a much abused term, the seminar helped attendees understand and measure how innovative they are, whether they would recognise innovation and what part technology plays in innovation.
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New Literacies for the 21st Century Citizen
The vast majority of those with whom we work, live and play are probably more digital immigrants than digital natives. Yet 2007 marks the first time that 16 year olds entering the work place will have been brought up their entire life with the world-wide-web. What opportunities lie in store for...
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Computer Games in the Classroom: Frivolous Folk Devils or Powerful Learning Tools?
Derek Robertson discussed a number of games based pilots that he has initiated and supported in Scottish schools over the past year. He also delivered an impassioned and informed series of arguments as to why games based learning has a vital role to play in creating contexts for learning that...
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What Makes Me Me? Part 9: The Way Forward by Professor Nigel Osborne, OBE
In part nine Professor Nigel Osborne, MBE concludes the What Makes Me Me? conference.
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What Makes Me Me? Part 8: Questions from the conference to Robert Winston and Michael O'Neill
Part eight is a group discussion question and answer session hosted by Robert Winston, Michael O'Neil and Keir Bloomer.
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What Makes Me Me? Part 7: The Learning Mind by Professor Lord Robert Winston
Part seven is the second of two lectures by Sir Robert Winston.
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What Makes Me Me? Part 6: Discussion with Robert Winston and Keir Bloomer
Part six is a discussion between Robert Winston and Keir Bloomer.
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What Makes Me Me? Part 5: The Amazing Mind by Professor Lord Robert Winston
Part five is the first of two lectures by Sir Robert Winston. Lord Winston is Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College and Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. His research, which has produced over 300 publications, is known worldwide. Robert Winston is committed to...
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What Makes Me Me? Part 4: Hungry for Success: Attitudes Values and Beliefs by Michael O'Neill OBE
Part four is presented by Michael O’Neill. A graduate of Glasgow University (Economics/History) he began as an Economist/Town Planner before switching to teaching. He spent 15 years at the chalkface as a teacher, principal teacher and assistant head, followed by posts of adviser in social…
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What Makes Me Me? Part 3: Education at the "Heart" of the Economy with Stuart Patrick
Part three is a presentation by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow's Operations Director Stuart Patrick.
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What Makes Me Me? Part 2: Ministerial Address by Fiona Hyslop
Part two of the What Makes Me Me? event. An address by Scottish minister for Education, Fiona Hyslop.
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What Makes Me Me? Part 1: Introduction from Keir Bloomer
This National Conference was hosted by the Tapestry Partnership and supported by Urban Learning Space. The event is framed in the context of education in Scotland in its widest sense. It had as its focus the importance of the brain in learning for young people and adults. Lord Winston requires no...
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Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education part 2
This is the second part of the recording from the Creative Collaboration seminar by Andy Polaine. In this part he hosts a question and answer session with the audience.
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Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education part 1
The past few years have been a buzz with terms such as the Creative Economy, social networks and Web 2.0. Yet many industries and institutions are struggling to adapt to this rapidly changing landscape, often mistakenly focus on the technological rather than the cultural shifts that make this...
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Digital Storytelling
We all have many stories to tell. Stories represent who we are, portray our life experiences and when presented to others, help connect us to others through common shared experience. By starting to tell these stories and hearing those of others, we can start to shift our perspective on who we…
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Digital Media - Jobs for the Boys? Group discussion part 2
In part two of the recording from Digital Media - Jobs for the Boys?, Jemima hosts a question and answer session with the audience.
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Digital Media - Jobs for the Boys? Group discussion part 1
Since 2005, Jemima has run Women in Film and Television’s Technical Change mentoring scheme, backed by ESF EQUAL and UIP, which provides mentors for women in technical areas. This seminar, based around the findings/conclusions from Technical Change, proposed what might be holding women back in...
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Designing the Learning Experience, part 2
Sean referenced schools located in the middle of shopping centres, robotics, interactive fountains, new ways of learning and different approaches to risk management. He argued that other countries have made a crucial distinction between places of learning and ways of learning. He believed that...
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Designing the Learning Experience, part 1
The seminar opened our minds to the disjointedness of the physical space where children currently learn versus the content of what they are actually learning. Sean looked at how other countries are approaching the renewal (and, in some case, replacement) of their educational models in preparation...
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Learning To Work, Working To Learn – Design in Educational Transformation
The Workplace Forum lecture, by Andrew Harrison, explored the impact of educational transformation on the university and school estate, the workplace and the community. A response was given by Gordon Davies. Education at every level in the UK is undergoing radical transformation. Universities are...
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Glasgow 2020 - the Dreaming City Glasgow 2020 - the Dreaming City Glasgow 2020 – The Dreaming City
Glasgow 2020 has been a two year project of events facilitated by the UK think tank Demos. It has looked at how people in the city of Glasgow look at the future, using a variety of creative and imaginative processes in a mass imagination exercise. Just before Glasgow 2020 unveils its findings and...
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Creative Cities: the role of creative industries in regeneration
Professor O'Connor presented a case for the role of creative industries in the future of towns and cities, operating in a complex ecosystem that involves not only artists and business people, but people from every area of urban life. Taking Manchester as a prime example, he looked at the...
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Collaborating Online, part 2
Online tools such as Blogs, Wikis, email, Instant chat and First Class communities can all be used to enhance the learning experience. This seminar included examples from some of Ultralab’s recent projects such as: (1) Ultraversity: a content-free on-line degree for full time workers. (2) Heads...
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Collaborating Online, part 1
This presentation looked at general trends in the use of technologies in learning environments and showed how collaboration in learning is key. It focused on how on-line learning is changing to become more participative than receptive - collaborative rather than content-based - and how the…
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Designing Mobile and Social Learning Experiences, part 2
Joanne Jacobs demonstrated exemplary projects in mobile and social learning undertaken by the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) and provided useful guidelines on how we can potentially implement these concepts within a Scottish context.
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Designing Mobile and Social Learning Experiences, part 1
This workshop focused on the importance of interaction design in the creation of effective mobile and social learning experiences. Such experiences help to create a "social identity". Additionally, central to a successful learning experience using emerging technologies is the need to involve the...
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Designing Technology for Social Change, part 3
Currently Assistant Professor in the University of California’s Department of Visual Arts, Natalie was previously Lecturer Convertible in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University, Consultant to the Advanced Computer Graphics Center, NYU, and Distinguished Critic in the…
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Designing Technology for Social Change, part 2
Natalie's work has been exhibited in museums in New York, Frankfurt and London. Within this event, Natalie showed how she creates such innovative and unique projects: from the process of idea generation to assembling a collaborative team, with the aim of the transformative potential of new...
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Designing Technology for Social Change, part 1
Natalie Jeremijenko is a design engineer and techno-artist who has built digital, electromechanical and interactive systems. Specific issues addressed in her work include information politics, the examination and development of new modes of knowledge, tangible media and distributed (or…
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Has lifelong learning had it's day?
Professor Field discussed changes in the area of lifelong learning since the late 1990s, exploring the challenges to the vision of lifelong learning which include funding and content issues and considered these in conjunction with the growth in self-governed learning, and contrasted with the...
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Designing technologies to support creativity and collaboration
Young people are increasingly using digital technologies to support creativity and collaboration outside the school. This seminar explored the following questions : What sorts of tools are young people using out of school today? What sorts of activities are they involved with in online...
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This podcast series features inspirational talks by some of the most innovative educational consultants and developers in the world. They have been recorded at the Urban Learning Space in The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland.Urban Learning Space is a learning lab equipping the people of Scotland with the capabilities to face the challenges of 21st century life.Urban Learning Space was established with core funding from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. We are working with people around Scotland to address real life challenges. Our network of experts are using transformational design practice to promote individuals’ capacities for change. Nurturing an innate capacity for learning by using collaborative design processes, we create new approaches. These range from the building of creativity tools to support innovation, transforming public spaces into learning landscapes, and harnessing emerging technologies to explore new learning contexts.
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