FOREWORD
One of Futurelab’s central aims is to better
understand the role that emerging digital technologies
might play in education. To do this, we bring together the
education community (teachers, researchers and
children) with the technology and creative industries, to
build and evaluate prototypes of the sorts of digital
resources that might be seen in schools in the future. It
is our findings from clusters of related prototypes, along
with our intelligence about other relevant projects and
research, that we publish in these handbooks.
The main aims of these handbooks are:
• to provide useful and jargon-free insights into policy
directions, research and projects developing in a
particular area of education and technology
• to summarise the findings from the prototypes and
processes Futurelab has developed in this area
• to provide useful pointers concerning the design and
use of digital resources in this area.
While these handbooks are not intended as definitive
statements, we hope you will find them a useful guide
and introduction to areas of interest and emerging
development. If you have any comments to make, or
suggestions of other projects or research we should be
aware of, please do let us know.
Keri Facer
Learning Research Director
research@futurelab.org.uk
Acknowledgements:
This report was produced as a result of prototype development
work with colleagues Jo Morrison, Teresa Dillon, Martin Owen,
Mary Ulicsak at Futurelab, and with our partners squidsoup
(Virtual Puppeteers) and Immersive Education (MediaStage).
Thanks to the children and teachers of Luckwell Primary School
and Cotham Secondary School in Bristol for their support in the
projects’ development.
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