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Latest News Update on the intelligent fountain The intelligent fountain will be featured at an event at the House of Lords on Tuesday 18 November. Meanwhile, Stakeholder Design and Futurelab are now looking to make intelligent fountains available to any school that wants to make use of its huge educational potential. If you would like to be part of the research programme, please get in touch.
Australia’s digital revolution Cisco, the company that built the internet, have invited Sean to join a high profile education ‘swarm’ that will be making short, focused visits to a number of cities an Australasia in July and August 2008. Leading experts in the field of education technology, building design and ‘learning design’ will join with policy-makers, teachers and architects in a series of workshops and seminars focused on new Premier Kevin Rudd’s ‘Australian digital revolution’ and Singapore’s ‘iN2015’ Education and Learning Plan.
The intelligent fountain is ready and has waved hello to its first student! Last year, Stakeholder Design’s idea to work with primary school children to conceive and build a fountain that can see and hear was selected by Futurelab as the winner in its call for ideas partnership challenge (see below for more information). The fountain has been a huge success, allowing children to engage in collaborative and cross-curriculum learning as well as developing higher order thinking skills. Teachers have been amazed at the impact it has had on learning at the school. A report on phase one of the project, charting the development of the project through to installation, is now ready. A second one, showing how the fountain has supported new approaches to teaching and learning, will be published later this year. Download your free copy of the report
Over the last year we’ve been working with a community of Sisters, Travellers, recent immigrants, recovering addicts, young people and the elderly to find out what happens when ordinary people are given the means to become designers of their own social services. The results have been phenomenal. We’re now delighted to announce the launch of “We Made This” - a free booklet showing that the business design strategies of IBM, Apple and Nike can be used to identify and address acute social problems such as loneliness, inter-generational tension and the need for integration. The booklet secured huge levels of coverage within the Irish media, some of which we have listed here. You can download your free electronic copy of the report by clicking on the link below.
A National Centre for the Study of Ageing The National University of Ireland is conducting a feasibility study for a multi-disciplinary Centre for the Study of Gerontology. Stakeholder Design has been appointed to the Advisory Board.
Towards a digital future Stakeholder Design and Polycom have been leading a unique experiment in online collaboration between the UK and New Zealand. Most recently, Sean delivered a multi-media keynote address to the top 250 business leaders in New Zealand using some amazing new technology, including two high definition video links, ‘weather forecaster’ screens and digital microscopes . The talk, which followed on from a speech by the Acting Prime Minister, showed how technology can support ‘borderless’ learning and help employees take their place within a global knowledge economy.
Project Faraday - Exemplar designs for science Stakeholder Design has been appointed by the DCSF as a project partner for Project Faraday - an ambitious attempt to redefine the science learning experience in British schools. Speaking in Parliament, Jim Knight, Minister of State for Schools, described Project Faraday as part of a “strategy to deliver the best in science teaching and learning.” Stakeholder Design is working with DEGW (an international architecture firm), Arup (ICT), At Large (exhibition design) and Manchester Metropolitan University’s Education team. Two schools have been selected as partners and hosts of the resulting designs: East Barnet School in London and Abraham Guest School in Wigan.
Stakeholder Design has been selected as one of only two recipients of funding in Futurelab’s latest call for ideas. Futurelab’s biannual competition, which attracted over 200 entries, provides up to £100,000 in funding for ideas that could help to transform the face of education. Stakeholder Design’s idea was to work with primary school children to conceive and build an intelligent fountain, capable of interacting with passers-by. The fountain will be owned and managed by the children, who will engage in collaborative and cross-curriculum learning as well as developing higher order thinking skills.
Towards a new paradigm The Institute of Education in London has asked Stakeholder Design to co-organise a one-day conference on how educational provision needs to change over the next 20 years. This prestigious conference, to be held on Wednesday 18 April, 2007, will challenge normal conventions of what teaching in 2020 will look like, with talks and workshops from internationally respected thought-leaders and young people working to make schools more interesting to end users.
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