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Digital Dialogues
Fostering Collaboration and Conversation in Education
24-25 March 2004, The Showroom and Workstation, Sheffield
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Catherine Aldridge
Director of Learning, At-Bristol
Catherine's MSc in Science Communication is the foundation of the work that she has undertaken in five science and discovery centres in the UK. She has a thorough understanding of learning in interactive environments and has played a critical role in establishing At-Bristol's education programme. Catherine has worked extensively in research, development and evaluation of exhibits and events for audiences at every level. Key projects have included: Brain Games, a national project to develop young people's creative thinking skills; Stirring Stuff, a three year laboratory-based science education programme; exhibition content development for the Fire Pavilion at Magna in Rotherham; and a touring exhibition across Scotland.
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Professor Steve Benford
Director, Mixed Reality Lab
Steve is investigating new technologies to support rich and dynamic social interaction across computer networks, including mixed reality and collaborative virtual environments (CVEs). Since 1992 he has been a principal investigator on four EPSRC projects, an ESPRIT III Basic Research project, two ESPRIT IV Long Term Research projects, an ACTS projects, two UK HEFCE projects and four direct industry-funded projects. Steve presented his work at the Royal Society in 1995 and at the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1996. He has published over 120 works including recent papers in ACM ToCHI, The Computer Journal, Presence and at the ACM's SIGGRAPH, CHI, MM, CSCW, UIST and VRST conferences.
read a transcript of Steve Benford's presentation
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Viki Bennett
Early Years Advisory Teacher, Bristol City Council
Viki has been teaching in the early years (3-5 years old) for 14 years and is currently an Advisory Teacher for Early Years for Bristol LEA. She works closely alongside practitioners and settings to enable them to develop their practice through a cycle of self-reflection and evaluation. She believes passionately in the philosophies underpinning the approach of the pre-schools of Reggio Emilia: that children are competent learners, and that learning takes place when adults and children are engaged together in a learning community, based on positive and respectful relationships. Viki is excited about the current use of digital technology in the early years to capture moments of learning.
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Tom Bentley
Director, Demos
Tom first joined Demos as a researcher in 1995, and later worked as an adviser to David Blunkett MP, Secretary of State for Education and Employment. He writes and speaks on subjects including democracy, public services, education and organisational change. His publications include The Adaptive State (Demos 2003), The Moral Universe (Demos 2002) and Learning Beyond the Classroom: Education for a Changing World (Routledge 1998), described as 'one of the key education books of the decade' by the Times Educational Supplement. Tom is a trustee of the Roundhouse, the Community Action Network and NESTA, where he chairs the Learning Committee. He also chairs the Curiosity and Imagination project; through Demos he is involved in policy and political debate around the world.
read a transcript of Tom Bentley's presentation
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Kevin Carey
Director and Founder, humanITy
Kevin is the Founder and Director of humanITy, a UK-based charity which specialises in ICT and social inclusion. He is an adviser to the EU, the Cabinet Office and other departments of the UK Government, a member of the OFCOM Content Board, and rapporteur of INCOM (Inclusive Communication). He is an Honorary Research Fellow in HCI at City University, a lecturer at a large number of UK universities, and is a writer and conference speaker on ICT. Kevin is a founder member of the World Wide Web's Accessibility Initiative and is the Vice Chair of the RNIB. He is also a broadcaster and journalist and a part-time music critic.
read Kevin Carey's conference paper
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Leon Cych
Independent Consultant and Co-Director, Learn for Life
Leon is an independent consultant, rich media developer, teacher, journalist, editor and author. He co-wrote Flash MX Express for Friends of Ed last year, and has been involved in several blue skies ICT projects in schools - notably the Playground Project and Virtual Carmen. His most recent roles have been project manager for Music Suite (a Key Stage 3 interactive music resource) and consultant to HTI (Heads and Teachers in Industry) on the recent inter-agency learning communities conference run for NCSL (National College of School Leadership). He is co-director of the innovations solutions company Learn for Life (www.L4L.co.uk).
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Professor Pierre Dillenbourg
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Formerly a teacher in elementary school, Pierre began his research on learning technologies in 1984, and obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster in the domain of artificial intelligence applications for educational software. He has been director of TECFA, the educational technology unit at the University of Geneva, and joined EPFL in November 2000. Pierre's current interests concern computer-supported collaborative learning: the role of virtual space in social interaction; the effects of awareness tools on group performance and mutual modelling; the design of mixed-reality learning environments; and mobile technologies for learning. He is the editor of the Kluwer Series 'Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning' and President of the International Society for Learning Sciences.
read a transcript of Pierre Dillenbourg's presentation
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Professor David Hargreaves
Chairman, Becta
David is Chairman of Becta and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is a Senior Associate of the think-tank Demos and Associate Director (Development and Research) of the Specialist Schools Trust. He is currently working on a project for the Lifelong Learning Foundation and advises the Paul Hamlyn Foundation on its Musical Futures project. David has been Chief Inspector of the Inner London Education Authority and Chief Executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. He has also held academic posts in teacher education in the universities of Manchester, Oxford and Cambridge and is Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Manchester. His latest publication is Education Epidemic: Transforming Secondary Schools Through Innovation Networks (Demos, 2003).
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Nathan Hughes
I Am The Mighty Jungulator
Nathan is a director/producer currently working in partnership with Max/MSP programmer Matthew Olden as I Am The Mighty Jungulator. They use proprietary software to develop self-generative audio-visual engines and interactive installations, and to broaden the scope of analogue-digital improvised performance. His collaborative work encourages a fluid social dynamic to explore fusions of old and new technologies (eg DIY electronic software instruments and hurdy-gurdy/bagpipes). His individual moving image practice is informed by the complex relationship of myth, mind and screen.
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Richard Hull
Senior Researcher, Hewlett-Packard
Richard joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1985 from the University of Sussex where he had gained a DPhil in Computer Science. He has worked and published in a wide range of research areas including situated computing, appliance communications, and pen interfaces. His current research interests are in pervasive mobile computing and the co-evolution of consumer technologies and applications.
read a transcript of Richard Hull's presentation
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Mark Jacobs
Executive Producer, BBC Natural History Unit
Mark first entered the world of television as researcher on the very last series of Animal Magic. Since then he has produced many films for BBC series, ranging from the ground breaking Supersense, to a Wildlife On One on British foxes, major projects in Polynesia and Central America and environmental investigations for Nature. More recently Mark joined with the BBC's Content R&D arm (until recently called BBC Imagineering) to help pioneer new ways of using multimedia content and natural history. Mark has two 'game playing' teenage boys who constantly remind him of the demands we face in creating engaging factual content for a young audience.
read a transcript of Mark Jacobs' presentation
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Peter Jenkinson OBE
National Director, Creative Partnerships
Peter has been recognised as one of the most influential museum and gallery directors of his generation and was awarded an OBE in 2001 for 'services to museums and the arts'. He was the Director of Museums and Galleries in Walsall, West Midlands from 1989 to 2001 and with his team opened the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The New Art Gallery Walsall. Previously he worked in museums in London, Birmingham, Norwich and Weybridge. Peter is currently a member of the Culture On Line Advisory Group and the Creative Spaces Advisory Group. In 1996 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and in 2002 an Honorary Fellow of Royal Institute of British Architecture.
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Keith Johnson
Headteacher, Luckwell Primary School, Bristol
Keith is interested in helping children and adults to use computers as one of a variety of ways of learning. He uses technology to develop an international dimension to his school's work, with a focus on citizenship issues, eg through the first international video-conference for young people. He designed the school's ICT networked classroom on the principles of 'accelerated learning' to enable users to work collaboratively. Keith is a member of educational support groups for ARKive At-Bristol and Education for Sustainable Development. His school is part of the Becta Digital Video project, and has an International Schools Award in which the exchange of digital photos with Japan, Australia and Germany play an important part.
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Professor Jay Lemke
University of Michigan
Jay is the author of Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Theory (Taylor & Francis, 1995), Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values (Ablex, 1990) and Using Language in the Classroom (Oxford, 1989). He is also co-editor of the international research journals Linguistics and Education and Critical Discourse Studies. He earned his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago, and his current research interests include discourse analysis, multimedia semiotics, advanced educational media, and multiscale dynamics in social-ecological systems.
read a transcript of Jay Lemke's presentation
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David Macquart
Director of Communications, Global Nomads Group
A French-American, David met the founders of Global Nomads Group (GNG) in Paris while in college and joined the fledgling organisation in 2000 in Dallas, Texas. Prior to this, he was Manager of Content Development at the European Press Network, a web-based news agency in Paris. Parallel to his work with GNG, he founded the web marketing shop BoldWord Communications and promoted websites for the US environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council. GNG is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to heightening children's understanding and appreciation of the world and its people. Using interactive technologies such as video-conferencing, GNG brings young people together across cultural and national boundaries to discuss the world issues that affect them.
read a transcript of David Macquart's presentation
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Professor Neil Mercer
Professor of Language and Communication, Open University UK
Neil is Professor of Language and Communications at the Open University UK, where he is also co-director of the multi-disciplinary Educational Dialogue Research Unit. His most recent book is Words and Minds: How we use Language to Think Together (Routledge, 2000) and his research interests are: a) how people use language to solve problems when working together (in schools, workplaces and other social settings); b) the nature and functions of dialogues between teachers and learners; c) the development of children's 'thinking skills' through language activities; and d) the use of computers for stimulating productive joint activity.
read a transcript of Neil Mercer's presentation
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Professor Claire O'Malley
Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham
Claire is Professor of Learning Science at the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham. Her background is in psychology, human-computer interaction and learning technologies. She is a co-founder of the Mixed Reality Lab and the Learning Sciences Research Institute and was Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for Research in Development, Instruction and Training from 1992 to 2002. Her research interests are in computer-supported collaborative learning, mixed reality and mobile learning environments. She also carries out basic research on the development of collaborative skills in young children and on the impact of different technologies on processes of human communication.
read a transcript of Claire O'Malley's presentation
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Josephine Reid
Project Manager, HP Laboratories, Bristol
Jo joined HP Labs in 1994, having worked in R & D at Texas Instruments on expert systems, and prior to that for Rank Xerox on interface design prototyping and testing. She contributes to the Mobile Bristol program as a project manager and as a researcher. The purpose of Mobile Bristol is to provide an experimental test-bed for technology and user value research in pervasive mobile media. Jo is a keen advocate for a multi-disciplinary approach to design and research, and her management development interest is in how creative tension can be used to facilitate knowledge sharing amongst team members from different backgrounds.
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Dr Michelle Selinger
Education Specialist, Cisco
Michelle works across Europe, the Middle East and Africa providing specialist educational knowledge to the Cisco Networking Academy Program team and a number of other educational initiatives including e-learning development. Prior to joining Cisco she was Director of the Centre for New Technologies Research in Education, a research and multimedia centre dedicated to research and development in ICT. Michelle has a unique experience of having worked in traditional, distance and online education in all sectors from primary schools to universities as well as vocational education and training, providing her with an extensive understanding of the need for progression and continuity in the lifelong learning agenda.
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Heather Sim
Space Unlimited
Heather works with Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's primary economic development agency, and has been exploring a concept for connecting the ideas and talents of young people with the need for innovation in our economy and across our communities. 'Space Unlimited' is emerging as a powerful methodology for building confidence among our young people in their own creativity and at the same time delivering valuable insights and learning for our employers and organisations. Heather is a languages and business graduate of the University of Strathclyde and has spent much of her career working in economic development. Before joining Scottish Enterprise she worked in the tourism industry in both the private and public sector, in Scotland and overseas.
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Derek Smith
Director, King's Cross EiC Action Zone
Derek has been Director of The King's Cross EiC Action Zone for three years. The zone's achievements include the introduction of the UK's first laser network of schools, linking six schools, 2,500 pupils and a community of 25,000 people. In July 2003, the King's Cross EiC Action Zone co-ordinated a virtual opera with the participation of all six schools simultaneously from remote locations. Previous experience includes: work as an Ofsted schools' inspector; lecturing at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne), the University of Newcastle and Chester College; and education projects management at the London Docklands Development Corporation.
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Professor Kathy Sykes
Collier Chair in Public Engagement in Science & Engineering, University of Bristol
Kathy is currently the Collier Chair in Public Engagement in Science & Engineering at the University of Bristol, as well as Co-Director of the Cheltenham Festival of Science. She also provides training in communication and media skills to scientists at research councils, universities and so on. Her own media experience includes taking part in science challenges for BBC2's Rough Science, presenting BBC2's Ever Wondered, and being a team captain on BBC4's Mind Games. Kathy was Head of Science at the Explore At-Bristol hands-on science centre for four years, and before that was a research assistant in the University of Bristol's Physics Department. She was voted one of the Guardian's '50 Women to Watch' in September 2003.
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Graham Taylor
Project Director, Testwise, Granada Learning
Graham started his career in journalism, spending 10 years with EMAP and rising to become Executive Publishing Director within the computer magazine division. He left to join Pearson Plc where he was in charge of FutureNet, one of the UK's biggest internet sites. Graham moved within Pearson to join what is now the Learning Network, where he instigated the integration of UK educational material into the US site. He also worked with Rough Guides on the business strategy for its online business and subsequently ran its UK online business. Graham then joined Granada Learning, working first with Letts Educational Publishing, and then becoming part of the LearnWise team working on TestWise.
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Jim Turner
New Media Producer, International Centre for Digital Content
Jim has worked in the educational software sector for seven years. His responsibilities in his role as New Media Producer at ICDC in Liverpool include project management, lecturing, and software design. His work covers many areas of content, types of user and modes of delivery. Projects have ranged from CD-Roms for Key Stage 3 maths, to learning games for South Liverpool Housing's YourTV interactive TV pilot.
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Chris Yapp
Head of Public Sector Innovation, Microsoft UK
Chris has worked in the IT industry since 1980 at Honeywell, ICL and HP in a variety of roles. He has had a long-term involvement with networking technologies and IT architectures, and with the strategic and management issues around ICT, particularly in the areas of public policy and government IT. He was project manager in 1984 for the first operational \OSI network at the UK DHSS. Chris is a frequent speaker and writer, particularly in the areas of lifelong learning, e-government, social exclusion and the creative industries. In 1996 he became an ICL Fellow for his work on the National Grid for Learning. He is also a Director of the English chapter of the Internet Society, an Associate of the Think Tank DEMOS, and a Fellow of the RSA.
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