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The training session was a great opportunity for those with some, little or greater knowledge of digital media to enhance their knowledge and skills in a relaxed and informative environment—but mostly they just had the chance to do it!
Penny Mills, Director of Client Services, Audiences London
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally-renowned expert in the field of creativity and innovation for business and education.
0.00—0.39 intros
0.40—2.00 cultivating creativity
2.01—4.38 advice about the changing nature of the world
4.39—7.42 talking to kids “properly”
7.43—15.08 opportunities vs disconnect (new media and technology)
15.09—17.39 vision of the future
18.47—19.10 outro
Twice as long as usual because it’s Sir Ken Robinson!
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(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Méabh Mc Mahon is one of the presenters of Europocket TV, an online television daily show focussed on European politics and culture.
0.00—0.51 intros
0.52—1.53 history of europocket.tv
1.54—4.09 funding
4.10—5.14 the numbers
5.15—6.35 interactivity
6.36—7.39 new media as an enabling force
7.40—9.06 reports content
9.07—10.46 the future
10.47—10.58 outro
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(WORLD) Welcome to my first MediaSnackers post. I will be putting one of these out every week or so, containing general content on new technologies relating to education, education initiatives relating to new media and any other choice stuff that I have come across plus a regular update on what I have been doing with MediaSnackers.
This first blog is going to be a bit of an introduction to all that (which I have kind of already done…ta-dah) and also a bit about me and my first couple of weeks as part of the MediaSnackers team.
I have always been drawn to jobs where I had the opportunity to learn, some might say it's because I am a super nerd and I guess at heart I probably am. I like finding out new stuff, doesn't really matter what it's about to be honest, and I like enthusing other people about the stuff that I've found out. Since I've joined MediaSnackers and been on a couple of training sessions I have been boring…I mean enthusing, unfortunate friends and family about all things media-tech related.
Bottom line—this stuff is cool.
The learning curve for me has been massive, I am not a tech-type person at all (although I have aspirations), but I am motivated to find out more because:
1. It's very interesting
2. It's my job.
Two things strike me (as I ascend the curve):
One is how quickly things are moving. A couple of years ago I was at a colloquium in London talking about new technologies and their role in education. During the lunch-break a few of us were talking about convergent technologies and we were all speculating about how soon we would see convergent handsets publicly available at a reasonable price. I don't think any of us guessed at 2 years (possibly this just illustrates our ignorance) but here we are and the Sony Mylo is already available (in the states), iPhone available in the UK at the end of this year and Nokia N95 out now.
The other day I was playing playstation with my little boy, he took the controller off me and showed me what to do on a bit where I was stuck (he had the decency not to be patronising about it). This is fine and something that I should get used to I guess, I imagine its going to be happening a lot over the course of the next fifty or so years. The only thing that I find a little surprising about this is that he is three and a half years old!
This is the second thing that strikes me: no matter how fast things are moving young people (including really young people) are keeping up!
Once your eyes have been opened to the fact that the world has changed you can choose to go with it (cue steep learning curve) or pretend it hasn’t happened. I have chosen the former, the curve is steep but I think it will be worth the climb.
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Music by The Locarnos
A really enlightening training course with all the latest web communication tools to keep up to date with the youth of the South East—thanks MediaSnackers!
Clare Williams, Youth Enterprise Manager
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Stephen Heppell is passionate and insightful plus one of the world’s leading online education and technology experts.
0.00—0.27 intros
0.28—1.09 Stephens focus
1.10—2.32 what has changed for young people
2.33—5.12 “eyes on the horizon, feet on the ground”
5.13—8.00 digital divide discussion
8.01—9.02 the barriers
9.03—11.19 future exciting challenges
11.20—11.32 outro
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(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Our fourth DesignShare and MediaSnackers podcast sees us (Christian Long and DK) talking to education and emerging technology expert, Alan November.
0.00 1.45 intros
1.46—5.29 the new job descriptions for teachers
5.30—7.48 reframing young peoples digital habits for learning
7.49—10.44 expectations of technology tool use vs educational strategy
10.45—12.50 the capacity/barriers to change a culture
12.51—16.50 the Building Learning Communities conference
16.51—19.11 future of school design (ref: Dan Pink conversations)
19.12—20.51 the perfect school
20.52—21.45 Outro
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Related posts: DesignShare/MediaSnackers Mash-up.
The MediaSnackers monthly vodcast is a fifteen minute shot (more or less) of yummy-youth-media-goodness. Featuring content made, produced or focussed on young people and media from around the globe.
Featuring: Bebe from theoneminutesjr.org; Children Online event/interviews; youth digital storyboard from a BBC Wales project; MediaSnackers news; youth review of Sketch City from LiveWire Manchester; winning vodcast entry Labels from Media Awareness Canada; music by Wade.
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(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Claire Easterman is the New Projects Manager for YouthNet, talking to MediaSnackers about the mobile advice project they’ve recently launched and why.
0.00—0.23 intros
0.24—1.33 YouthNet and thesite
1.34—3.38 mobile advice project
3.39—4.51 how it works
4.52—6.19 the partnerships involved
6.20—9.24 learning curves
9.25—11.08 future strategies
10.51—11.01 outro
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(WORLD) MediaSnackers are being served more and more ways to snack on their chosen media than ever. It’s hard to differentiate between companies and start-ups enabling snacking or the snacking trends driving media platform development, but here are a couple of quotes from the ‘experts’ to sum it all up for any ‘MediaSnacker-virgins’:
My attitude is that the technology is here… our responsibility is to inform and teach people about responsible use of that technology.
Secondary principals association president Peter Gall, of Auckland’s Papatoetoe High School and his reaction to the growing trend of banning access to social networking sites in New Zealand.
It’s allowed them to connect with learning in a meaningful way, in a way textbooks can’t.
Canadian teacher, Kathy Cassidy talking about her blogging 101 class to grade 1 students (6 year olds).
Young people are ‘grazers,’ according to a recent Readership Institute study, who don’t go looking for news, but will stop to read ‘if it catches my eye,’ or if they ‘bump into something.’
From this article discussing how young people access and think about news at the 7th World Young Readers Conference.
