New technologies are emerging that could change the way we work and communicate. We're exploring some of them in our upcoming Hot Topics event.
Our recent event explored the challenges faced by the UK biomedical industry and how collaboration is key to it's continued growth and success.
The New York Times published an article recently about an entrepreneur, Seth Priebatsch, and described what it called his 'hypomanic' attributes: an elevated mood, obsession with one idea, little need for sleep, massive self-confidence.
As one of the projects to benefit from funding through NESTA's Age Unlimited programme, we embarked on a journey of project development which has been both uplifting and enlightening.
Last week we were at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon for the launch of the EU Social Innovation Prize Competition in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos. Diogo was described as a person of outstanding energy and charisma. He never stopped thinking ahead, developing and connecting ideas and engaging with new people.
A new competition from IC Tomorrow (a Technology Strategy Board programme) and Nesta offers up to £48,000 to develop ideas that make great use of technology to support learning. The competition is now open to applicants.
Like most parents with young children, I get a lot of joy from imagining what type of boy my young son will turn out to be (here's my best guess: sporty, intrigued by the world, cheeky, and a giggler).
On Monday, I attended the Education Endowment Foundation's Evidence in Action Seminar, which was full of good people, proposing good ideas, for closer aligning what goes on in the classroom with what we know about learning. However, I was struck that there was no talk of how technology can support this aspiration. As I often do, I thought I would collect my thoughts in a blog post.
The following blog sums up a presentation I gave at the Whole Education conference this week:
It has been claimed that the history of technology and education is one of overselling and underuse. Which feels about right to me, but, given that I am an optimist about what technology can do for learning, I owe an explanation of what has gone wrong in the past.
In a previous blog post I set out five challenges to the movement to get more children coding, making apps, hacking websites and so on.
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