Welcome to the Digital Producers payment page.
I expect you will have talked with Sabrina or seen her text so you should understand that the four(4) Saturday sessions pilot is to explore how effectively we can help your child(ren) improve their digital literacy; focusing initially in two areas:
computer programming: through an easy to use visual drag and drop interface called Scratch developed at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
self-organized learning: through stimulation and fostering of their ability to choose goals for themselves and use the computer-world interface to acquire information and resources to help satisfy those goals.
I’ll be adding more information here over the next few days but if you have any further questions by all means contact me with this form or text Sabrina for my number.
The payment link for the 4 sessions is the button saying BUY NOW above and below here. It’s £20 for the pilot of 4 sessions and it will be next four(4) Saturdays from 1pm to 3pm starting this Saturday 1 March. The following sessions will be Saturday March 8, 15 and 22. You (and your child) together will need a broadband connected computer with speakers and an internet browser. Yes sharing the computer will be fine! It will be very helpful and enrich your experience — though not absolutely required – if you have a mic and webcam and a Skype account. For the parent a Facebook account will be helpful though not required. So please click the BUY NOW button to pay the £20 and look forward to sending you the details for Sat March 1st.
and please after you have paid (or even before ) click here to tell us about you and your child(ren)
Many leading thinkers in the field of education have identified a need for a new approach to answer the needs of knowledge economies. In a nutshell – and to grossly over-simplify the issue – it revolves around the fact that knowledge is changing so fast these days that an educational system that depends on training people to reproduce knowledge already known does not fit them well for the future.
Part of what needs to happen is that education needs to empower learners to be able to:
identify what is important to learn in particular life situations and
to understand how to acquire the resources needed to help them learn what is needed;
in short to teach them to effectively make choices and learn for themselves.
Here is a little of what Sir Ken Robinson, fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a respected educator, has to say on this subject.
Another respected educational innovator who also addresses these issues is Sugata Mitra who has researched educational approaches for well over ten years. In India and in many countries around the world. He has developed and tested a concept he calls Self-Organised Learning Environments. In contrast to formal overly structured learning environments in many school systems, Sugata Mitra tries to create environments stimulating children to explore and collaborate. He has demonstrated significant successes in formenting autonomous self-directed learning. So much so that he was awarded a prize of $1 million Sugata Mitra wins TED prize for educational innovation