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Futurelab Seminar Series
Re-thinking Learning Networks: Home, School and Community
14 February, 9 March and 28 March, London
Introduction
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Introduction
Futurelab is holding a series of three, half-day seminars to debate key issues, approaches and policies around home-school-community links, informal learning and the use of digital technologies. Presentations will be given by experts in the field and these will be followed and enhanced by full audience discussions. The seminar audience will be made up of a mixture of people working in the field of policy, research and practice.
The seminars will take place on the following dates, at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in London (see www.iom3.org/venue):
Seminar 1: Learning in the home - Tuesday 14 February
Seminar 2: Learning within communities - Thursday 9 March
Seminar 3: Linking and re-thinking home, school and communities: current and future policy - Tuesday 28 March
The overall aim of the seminar series is to explore key research and approaches in this area, stimulate new thinking and debate current policy and practical approaches. The seminars should challenge, inform and provoke new thinking with the aim of producing a set of recommendations or challenges to policy makers and practitioners working in the field of home-school-community relationships and to consider new possibilities enabled by new digital technologies.
A core working group will meet after each seminar to discuss key issues raised and to consider the content of a subsequent report arising from the series. If you would like to attend any of these seminars, then please contact Sarah Godfrey on 0117 915 8228, or research@futurelab.org.uk.
Provocation paper
A provocation paper for these seminars is available, intended to stimulate debate and act as a prompt around some of the wider issues to be explored by seminar participants.
Read provocation paper - web version (2 pages)
Read provocation paper - pdf version for best printing results (opens 121kb file in pdf format in same window)
Articles
Two articles have been written around the themes arising from these seminars.
Read seminar article - New technologies and adult learners
Read seminar article - The school of the future
Agendas
The agenda for Seminar 1 is below (agendas for the next two seminars will be added nearer the time).
Seminar 1: Learning in the home
10:30 Registration and coffee
10:45 Welcome and introductions
11:00 Presentation 1: Professor Martin Hughes (University of Bristol) - The home as a powerful learning environment
11:30 Open discussion
11:45 Coffee
12:00 Presentation 2: Michelle Selinger (Cisco Systems) - Informal learning and tools to think with
12:30 Open discussion
12:45 Final remarks
1:00 Lunch and close
Core working group meeting
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