http://folksonomy.co/?rss=2555 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:25:38 +1000 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:25:38 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3241 Pedagogical experiments played a crucial role in shaping architectural discourse and practice in the second half of the 20th century In fact the key hypothesis of our Radical Pedagogy 1 research project is that these experiments can be understood as radical architectural practices in their own right Radical in the literal meaning from the Latin radice as something belonging or relating to the root to its foundations Radical pedagogies shake foundations disturbing assumptions rather than reinforcing and disseminating them This challenge to normative thinking was a major force in the postwar field of architecture and has surprisingly been neglected in recent years Architectural pedagogy has become stale Schools spin old wheels as if something is happening but so little is going on Students wait for a sense of activist engagement with a rapidly evolving world but graduate before it happens The fact that they wait for instruction is already the problem Teachers likewise worry too much about their place in the institutional hierarchies Curricular structures have hardly changed in recent decades despite the major transformations that have taken place with the growth of globalisation new technologies and information culture As schools appear to increasingly favour professionalisation they seem to drown in self-imposed bureaucratic oversight suffocating any possibility for the emergence of experimental practices and failures There are a few attempts to wake things up here and there but it s all so timid in the end There is no real innovation In response to the timidity of schools today the Radical Pedagogy project returns to the educational experiments of the 1960s and 70s to remind us what can happen when pedagogy takes on risks It s a provocation and a call to arms Beatriz Colomina with Esther Choi Ignacio Gonzalez Galan and Anna-Maria Meister 28 September 2012 The Architectural Review 1 Radical Pedagogy is an ongoing multi-year collaborative research project by a team of PhD candidates in the School of Architecture at Princeton University led by Beatriz Colomina and involving seminars interviews and guest lectures by protagonists and scholars The project explores a remarkable set of pedagogical experiments of the 1960s and 70s that revolutionised thinking in the discipline Each student is working on one of these experiments and collectively mapping the interconnections and effects of these experiments towards a major publication and exhibition Fig 1 Tournaments in the Course Culture of the Body at the Valpara iacute so School 1975 Courtesy of Archivo Hist oacute rico Jose Vial Escuela Arquitectura y Dise ntilde o Pontificia Universidad Cat oacute lica de Valpara iacute so http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3241 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:25:38 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3203 Date 26 Apr 2013 Location venue The Old Fire Station University of Salford England The workshop offers an opportunity for those involved in teaching or directly managing degree programmes in the Arts to find out more about the role mobile learning can play in enhancing the student and tutor experience Through a series of presentations activities and discussions led by academics from the Arts discipline area participants will be introduced to mobile technologies approaches and see discipline-focused exemplars of mobile learning applied in teaching practice Higher Education Academy http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3203 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:03:09 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3129 A passion for bringing together expertise in the arts computing and technology is inspiring the University of Greenwich s new Professor of Digital Creativity Gregory Sporton who joins in January 2013 from Birmingham City University has spent much of his academic career researching the impact of new technology on the visual and performing arts He is a former professional dancer and has also researched the history of ballet in Soviet times He is excited about introducing a new and original focus on the arts to Greenwich I aim to gather together the expertise we have in so many disciplines such as creative arts computing visualisation and all the rest and make something new and interesting Professor Sporton says The arts and sciences are drawn more closely together by technology there is less differentiation than people think and at Greenwich I want to build a research environment to explore that University of Greenwich News 17 December 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3129 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:15:55 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3060 We are on the brink of an extraordinary revolution that will change our world forever In this new world everyone everything and everywhere will be connected in real time We call this the Networked Society and it will fundamentally change the way we innovate collaborate produce govern and sustain When one person connects their life changes With everything connected our world changes Ericsson Limited 2012 Fig 1 Published on YouTube 19 October 2012 by Ericsson http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3060 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:34:35 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3059 I m more bothered by the underlying assumptions about what makes good university teaching that lie behind many of these surveys You can see them particularly clearly in the National Student Survey and the reams of student feedback it publishes online - explicitly so it says to help prospective students choose a good course and to help universities enhance the student learning experience OK I can see how at first sight that might seem obvious Who after all wants to see their kids go off to university at great expense for a diet of dis-satisfaction But from where I sit dissatisfaction and discomfort have their own important role to play in a good university education We re aiming to push our students to think differently to move out of their intellectual comfort zone to read and discuss texts that are almost too hard for them to manage It is and it s meant to be destabilizing At the same time we re urging them never to be satisfied with the arguments they are presented with never to take things on trust always to challenge always to see the weak points or to want to push the argument further Then along comes the National Survey treats them as consumers and asks them if they re satisfied Mary Beard BBC News 2 December 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3059 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:16:59 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3049 Skillset Academi was first piloted in Wales from 2009 to March 2011 during which time the scheme assisted over 350 industry professionals by running 54 courses Having used this opportunity which was funded by HEFCW the Academy has fostered new partnerships with experts and has proven a track record of targeted training appealing to a wide cross sector of the industry In 2012 the second phase of training will be funded by the EU s Convergence European Social Fund ESF through the Welsh Government The impact of digital technology combined with the recession has increased the speed of change within the Creative industry transforming the way in which we operate The focus of Skillset Academi is to enable Welsh companies and freelancers to re-skill through high quality and flexible training that is entirely tailored towards real industry needs in this digital age The concept for this training programme draws on hard evidence produced by Skillset on the impact of the recession and changes in digital technology on the Creative Media sector in Wales Recently gathered research shows which skills are needed to help companies and freelancers weather the economic downturn and come out the other side with a competitive edge The content of courses offered by Skillset Academi has been shaped by feedback from industry practitioners on priority skills gaps and training needs Skillset Academi http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3049 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:10:20 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3041 On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores how Britain trains the artists and designers of the future Christopher Frayling and Sarah Teasley celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Royal College of Art the world s oldest art and design school But one of its former teachers the industrial designer Ron Arad argues for a broader arts education which doesn t split sculpture from painting architecture from design And the artist Antony Gormley redefines the limits of sculpture and building Start the Week 2012 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 Start the Week duration 43 minutes first broadcast Monday 19 November 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3041 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:11:59 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3019 There was a time when learning was what we did from birth to college graduation After that We just worked and eventually retired But the world is changing rapidly And now more than ever learning is something that happens outside the classroom throughout our entire lives We now have to learn new skills every year just to stay relevant in our jobs not to mention making a career change And it s not just our careers we also want to learn and continually improve in the things we do outside of work Whether it s yoga or golf or photography or anything we re passionate about we want to be better Every day we see our friends sharing their new achievements and posting their milestones on Facebook how do we keep up and reach our potential We re busier than ever And despite having access to a mountain of information via the internet we still struggle to find structured comprehensive trusted sources who can excite us and teach us all the things we want to know We need trusted experts guides to help us on our way - we need the ability to learn from the amazing instructors in the world Udemy http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3019 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:42:42 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2989 Constructivism is a recent perspective or philosophy on learning with ancient roots von Glasersfeld 1995 that has extensive implications for the use of collaborative learning tools In employing constructivism some teachers believe that better learning occurs when knowledge is the result of a situated construction of reality Brooks 1990 Unfortunately although constructivist revolutionaries have ventured onto the battlefield of epistemological change most have not provided practicing educators with the wherewithal to reconstitute and embed constructivist ideas within their personal philosophies and teaching practices Teachers might in fact design useful constructivistic learning environments and strategies but may not recognize that they operate from a constructivist paradigm Harris amp Pressley 1991 Even when constructivism is recognized as valuable few guidelines exist for implementing and assessing it So when CSCL tools enter the instructional arsenal of public schools and higher education settings constructivism may not be the theory of choice And undoubtedly many scholars and researchers fuel this problem with intense debates that most practitioners simply lack the time and energy to deal with e g see Ernest 1995 von Glasersfeld 1995 Further muddying the debate there is no canonical form of constructivist theory Cobb 1994 identified two variations - cognitive constructivist and social constructivist - and there are undoubtedly more Cognitive constructivists tend to draw insight from Piaget and focus on individual constructions of knowledge discovered in interaction with the environment Social constructivists rely more on Vygotsky 1978 and view learning as connection with and appropriation from the sociocultural context within which we are all immersed Curtis Jay Bonk and Donald J Cunningham p 33 Bonk Curtis Jay Cunningham Donald J Bonk Curtis Jay Ed King Kira S Ed 1998 Searching for Learner-Centered Constructivist and Sociocultural Components of Collaborative Educational Learning Tools in Electronic collaborators Learner-centered technologies for literacy apprenticeship and discourse pp 25-50 Mahwah NJ US Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2989 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:57:33 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2976 Date 29 May 2013 - 30 May 2013 Location venue Thistle Brighton King s Road Brighton England BN1 2GS The Higher Education Academyos second annual learning and teaching Arts and Humanities conference Storyville Exploring narratives of learning and teachingo will take place on 29 e 30 May 2013 in Brighton At the heart of the Arts and Humanities disciplines sit stories e stories which create and recreate worlds distant and present stories which inspire and engage stories which grow imaginations and expand what is thinkable Stories are everywhere and our second annual conference seeks to explore the intersections between narrative and learning and teaching Higher Education Academy UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2976 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:21:49 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2972 EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions the founders are creating a new online-learning experience with online courses that reflect their disciplinary breadth Along with offering online courses the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learningeboth on-campus and worldwide Anant Agarwal former Director of MIT s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory serves as the first president of edX EdX s goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages means and nations and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience EdX is based in Cambridge Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard edX 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2972 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:21:17 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2915 Date 24 Apr 2013 Location venue University for the Creative Arts Epsom Ashley Road Epsom Surrey England KT18 5BE The Group for Learning in Art and Design GLAD will be holding their 2013 annual conference on 24 April 2013 and is calling for case studies and research papers that explore three areas that are likely to change the future of English art and design higher education 1 Starting Changes to the school art and design curriculum and how the new English Baccalaureate and the demands it places on school timetables might crowd out of the curriculum offer in the arts How we might engage to redress this Speaker s from the school sector 2 Sustaining How we should evolve our working with students to support their learning and to address the data-led climate for student choice Speaker s from institutions that have improved their student experience data and are engaging with students in innovative ways 3 Succeeding What are institutions doing to support employability Case studies from graduates highlighting what was useful to them in securing employment plus speaker s from creative careers professionals We are looking for responses to these questions and themes with contributors offering the conference presentations papers discussions typically of 20 minutes duration UK Higher Education Academy http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2915 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:41:19 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2912 For the 2012 13 academic year NTU is introducing a new scheme for assessing undergraduate students work The scheme is known as grade-based assessment or GBA A major advantage of GBA is that it ensures that there is a direct link between the expected learning outcomes of the part of the course being assessed and what you the student have demonstrated in the assessment This short video explains this The specific arrangements relating to the assessment of a module will be set out in module documentation Previously assessed work was awarded a mark usually a percentage Following the introduction of GBA each piece of assessed work will be awarded one of 17 grades You will be informed about what is expected of you in order to achieve a particular grade This information will mean that feedback on your work will be clear and you will be able to evaluate your progress towards your final degree classification Nottingham Trent University This animated presentation provides an overview of the grade-based marking scheme which is being introduced at Nottingham Trent University for the 2012 13 academic year The presentation is clearly aimed at NTU students and refers to the university-specific VLE called the NOW - the NTU Online Workspace despite this the clip covers issues which I expect have more general relevance to students studying at other institutions http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2912 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:54:00 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2877 Creative Tools was co-authored by Alex Fung Alice Lo and Mamata N Rao based on their teaching and students learning experiences in the Design Thinking subject Foreword by Dr Edward de Bono this handbook is a comprehensive guide to 15 creative tools that help develop students creative thinking not only for design by other disciplines Each tool has an introduction followed by a demonstration of its use with reflection amp 39321 amp 28207 amp 29702 amp 24037 amp 22823 amp 23416 Hong Kong Polytechnic University Alex Fung Alice Lo Mamata N Rao 2005 Creative Tools School of Design Hong Kong Polytechnic University http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2877 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:10:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2843 Stephen Downes is a senior researcher for Canada s National Research Council and a leading proponent of the use of online media and services in education As the author of the widely-read OLDaily online newsletter Downes has earned international recognition for his leading-edge work in the field of online learning He developed some of Canada s first online courses at Assiniboine Community College in Brandon Manitoba He also built a learning management system from scratch and authored the now-classic The Future of Online Learning At the University of Alberta he built a learning and research portal for the municipal sector in that province Munimall and another for the Engineering and Geology sector PEGGAsus He also pioneered the development of learning objects and was one of the first adopters and developers of RSS content syndication in education Downes introduced the concept of e-learning 2 0 and with George Siemens developed and defined the concept of Connectivism using the social network approach to deliver open online courses to three thousand participants over two years Stephen Downes http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2843 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:49:00 +1000