digital makers
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Brief overview of some key challenges to address in the Digital Makers programme (Nesta, Nominet Trust, Mozilla et al)TRANSCRIPT
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Digital Makers
How can we support young people to be confident digital makers?
Ravensbourne College, 25th May, 2012
Dan Sutch [email protected] @dansutch @nominettrust
www.nominettrust.org.ukFoundation charity of Nominet – the .uk domain registry (over 10 million .uk sites)
Social investor & grant maker aiming to redesign ways of addressing social challenges through the use of digital
technology
To investigate and demonstrate how digital technologies can be used to support young people to engage socially and economically with their communities.
Young People’s Investment Programme
Digital Makers – in partnership with Nesta and Mozilla
What does it mean to be a ‘digital maker’
... to participate in cultures and communities of digital makers?
... to actively participate in cultures and communities that privilege digital making and production?
An aspiration to increase participation and access to digital making activities, developing a generation of digital makers
What does digital making mean to you and your work?
Context: economic, social, personal...
Recent discussion about importance of computer science and economic role of schooling
Rise of ‘networked society’; importance of ‘network literacy’; challenge of interaction of ‘organisation’ with ‘network’
New forms of employment and ways of organising work
New business models and opportunities
New ways of participating in socially useful activities
Long tradition/recent arguments of learner centred education (Creators not Consumers)
Your/your communities’ social and economic needs
Types of engagement
• Confident users of digital technology
• Making sense of information online (Bold Creative)
• Publishing and presenting (RadioWaves)
• Making with and through the web (Hackasauarus)
• Coding and programming
• Creating physical digital products
• Computer science,
network literacy
• Focussing on enabling young people to engage socially and economically with their communities
• Critical, digital and web literacies
• Design, content, interaction
• Digital safety
• Digital conduct (personal,
professional, legal)
Challenges to address
The catalysts and disconnects as young people engage with digital making?
The productive capabilities needed for digital making and the signposts across non-linear progression/development?
How can we ‘loosely tie together’ efforts across the wide range of digital maker activities to greatest effect?