Urban Learning Space Seminars

Urban Learning Space Seminars

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Urban Learning Space Seminars episodes

  • Build Your Own World: User Generated Content, Second Life and Creative Commons
    Andres Guadamuz is an academic interested in the ownership implications of new technologies; in particular he researches intellectual property issues in User Generated Content and the so-called Web 2.0 phenomenon.
    He delivered a presentation in which he looked at the creation of urban spaces within so-called virtual worlds, such as the popular environment known as Second Life. He asked about the ownership issues that surround the creation of intangible property, putting forward the idea that we already have legal tools to think about virtual existence.
    1 hr 52 min
  • Innovation: a Personal View (part 1)
    This event was a three-hour interactive workshop on futures thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. As a much abused term, the seminar helped attendees understand and measure how innovative they are, whether they would recognise innovation and what part technology plays in innovation.
    1 hr 7 min
  • New Literacies for the 21st Century Citizen
    The vast majority of those with whom we work, live and play are probably more digital immigrants than digital natives. Yet 2007 marks the first time that 16 year olds entering the work place will have been brought up their entire life with the world-wide-web.
    What opportunities lie in store for business, government and those who choose to create their own 'global microbrand'? The scope for new practices and expertise is there, but without an effort to understand the social web of today's teens, organisations stand to miss out on some significant opportunities.
    1 hr 14 min
  • Computer Games in the Classroom: Frivolous Folk Devils or Powerful Learning Tools?
    Derek Robertson discussed a number of games based pilots that he has initiated and supported in Scottish schools over the past year. He also delivered an impassioned and informed series of arguments as to why games based learning has a vital role to play in creating contexts for learning that resonate with and motivate the digital native that we now find in Scottish schools.
    The benefits, practicalities and challenges of classroom use of games based learning was then explored via the the experiences and lessons learned from the range of games based pilot projects that the Consolarium has initiated over the past year. Those most likely to benefit includes those who work in all areas of academia, teachers, education managers, games industry partners and anyone with an interest in taking learning forward.
    48 min
  • What Makes Me Me? Part 5: The Amazing Mind by Professor Lord Robert Winston
    Part five is the first of two lectures by Sir Robert Winston.
    Lord Winston is Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College and Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. His research, which has produced over 300 publications, is known worldwide.
    Robert Winston is committed to scientific education and his many TV series on different aspects of science have been shown in many countries overseas. Perhaps the best known is ‘The Human Body, which won 3 BAFTAs, an Emmy nomination and a Peabody award. He has published 12 books for lay readership.
    His activities in the House of Lords include speaking regularly on education, science, medicine, and the arts. He was Chairman of the Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology 1999-2002, initiating enquiries into Antibiotic Resistance, Non-Food Crops, Nuclear Waste, Science and Society, Genetic Databases, Aircraft Passenger Environment and Science in Schools. Finally, Lord Winston is a board member and Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
    55 min

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This podcast series features inspirational talks by some of the most innovative educational consultants and developers in the world. They have been recorded at the Urban Learning Space in The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland.