Urban Learning Space Seminars
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.
Urban Learning Space is a learning lab equipping the people of Scotland with the capabilities to face the challenges of 21st century life.
Urban Learning Space was established with core funding from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. We are working with people around Scotland to address real life challenges. Our network of experts are using transformational design practice to promote individuals’ capacities for change. Nurturing an innate capacity for learning by using collaborative design processes, we create new approaches. These range from the building of creativity tools to support innovation, transforming public spaces into learning landscapes, and harnessing emerging technologies to explore new learning contexts.
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2008
What Makes Me Me? Part 6: Discussion with Robert Winston and Keir Bloomer
Part six is a discussion between Robert Winston and Keir Bloomer.
00:12:52 |
Fri 05 Oct 2007
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,…
00:54:45 |
Wed 03 Oct 2007
What Makes Me Me? Part 2: Ministerial Address by Fiona Hyslop
Part two of the What Makes Me Me? event. An address by Scottish minister for Education, Fiona Hyslop.
00:10:08 |
Wed 03 Oct 2007
What Makes Me Me? Part 4: Hungry for Success: Attitudes Values and Beliefs by Michael O'Neill OBE
Part four is presented by Michael O’Neill.
A graduate of Glasgow University (Economics/History) he began as an Economist/Town Planner before switching to teaching. He spent 15 years at the chalkface…
00:37:38 |
Wed 03 Oct 2007
What Makes Me Me? Part 3: Education at the "Heart" of the Economy with Stuart Patrick
Part three is a presentation by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow's Operations Director Stuart Patrick.
00:08:32 |
Wed 03 Oct 2007
What Makes Me Me? Part 1: Introduction from Keir Bloomer
This National Conference was hosted by the Tapestry Partnership and supported by Urban Learning Space. The event is framed in the context of education in Scotland in its widest sense. It had as its f…
00:04:12 |
Wed 03 Oct 2007
Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education part 2
This is the second part of the recording from the Creative Collaboration seminar by Andy Polaine. In this part he hosts a question and answer session with the audience.
01:07:00 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education part 1
The past few years have been a buzz with terms such as the Creative Economy, social networks and Web 2.0. Yet many industries and institutions are struggling to adapt to this rapidly changing landsca…
00:50:01 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
Digital Storytelling
We all have many stories to tell. Stories represent who we are, portray our life experiences and when presented to others, help connect us to others through common shared experience.
By starting to…
00:42:01 |
Tue 21 Aug 2007
Digital Media - Jobs for the Boys? Group discussion part 2
In part two of the recording from Digital Media - Jobs for the Boys?, Jemima hosts a question and answer session with the audience.
00:24:24 |
Thu 16 Aug 2007
Digital Media - Jobs for the Boys? Group discussion part 1
Since 2005, Jemima has run Women in Film and Television’s Technical Change mentoring scheme, backed by ESF EQUAL and UIP, which provides mentors for women in technical areas.
This seminar, based aro…
00:54:00 |
Mon 23 Jul 2007
Designing the Learning Experience, part 2
Sean referenced schools located in the middle of shopping centres, robotics, interactive fountains, new ways of learning and different approaches to risk management. He argued that other countries ha…
00:30:09 |
Wed 11 Jul 2007
Designing the Learning Experience, part 1
The seminar opened our minds to the disjointedness of the physical space where children currently learn versus the content of what they are actually learning. Sean looked at how other countries are a…
00:55:54 |
Wed 11 Jul 2007
Learning To Work, Working To Learn – Design in Educational Transformation
The Workplace Forum lecture, by Andrew Harrison, explored the impact of educational transformation on the university and school estate, the workplace and the community. A response was given by Gordon…
01:29:54 |
Thu 21 Jun 2007
Glasgow 2020 - the Dreaming City Glasgow 2020 - the Dreaming City Glasgow 2020 – The Dreaming City
Glasgow 2020 has been a two year project of events facilitated by the UK think tank Demos. It has looked at how people in the city of Glasgow look at the future, using a variety of creative and imagi…
00:53:05 |
Thu 03 May 2007
Creative Cities: the role of creative industries in regeneration
Professor O'Connor presented a case for the role of creative industries in the future of towns and cities, operating in a complex ecosystem that involves not only artists and business people, but peo…
00:53:25 |
Wed 28 Mar 2007
Collaborating Online, part 2
Online tools such as Blogs, Wikis, email, Instant chat and First Class communities can all be used to enhance the learning experience. This seminar included examples from some of Ultralab’s recent pr…
00:22:58 |
Wed 28 Mar 2007
Collaborating Online, part 1
This presentation looked at general trends in the use of technologies in learning environments and showed how collaboration in learning is key. It focused on how on-line learning is changing to becom…
00:57:02 |
Wed 28 Mar 2007
Designing Mobile and Social Learning Experiences, part 2
Joanne Jacobs demonstrated exemplary projects in mobile and social learning undertaken by the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) and provided useful guidelines on how we can potentially i…
00:50:18 |
Wed 28 Mar 2007
Designing Mobile and Social Learning Experiences, part 1
This workshop focused on the importance of interaction design in the creation of effective mobile and social learning experiences. Such experiences help to create a "social identity". Additionally, c…
00:41:32 |
Wed 28 Mar 2007
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