Date and time - Speaker name and institution - Seminar title
Tuesday 31 Oct, 1pm - Professor Sugata Mitra, Newcastle University - The future of learning
In this talk, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origins of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them.Seventeen years of experiments with children's education takes us through a series of startling results – children, in groups, can form ‘self organising systems’ that results in emergent learning, they can achieve educational objectives on their own, can read by themselves. Finally, the most startling of them all: Groups of children with access to the Internet can learn anything by themselves. The mechanism of this kind of learning seems similar to the appearance of spontaneous order, or ‘emergent phenomena’ in chaotic systems.From the slums of India, to the villages of India and Cambodia, to poor schools in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA and Italy, to the schools of Gateshead and the rich international schools of Washington and Hong Kong, Sugata's experimental results show a strange new future for learning.
Using the 2013 $1m TED Prize, he has built seven ‘Schools in the Cloud’, where Self Organised Learning Environments (SOLEs) and a ‘Granny Cloud’ of mediators over the Internet, interact with unsupervised children. The results of this three-year study are not yet fully analysed but Sugata will present some of the preliminary findings. We begin to see some glimpses of what schools should be for and what curricular, pedagogic and assessment changes will be required in the future.
You can listen again here: https://campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=02de6ba8-d036-4a64-8474-950c6ea6989f
Thursday 16 Nov, 1pm - Thomas Martell, Education Endowment Foundation - Putting evidence to work in schools
Since 2011, the Education Endowment Foundation has sought to use evidence to break the link between family income and educational attainment. We have done this in three broad ways:
- Synthesising the existing evidence: most notably through our Teaching and Learning Toolkit
- Generating new evidence: we have worked with 1/3 of English schools and commissioned ~150 trials
- Scaling up evidence: we are currently experimenting with different approaches to putting evidence to work in schools
Tom will highlight key aspects of the EEF’s work and share some of the lessons learnt from the EEF’s first 6 years as well as some of the challenges for the years ahead.
You can listen again here: https://campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=43600720-cbe8-4290-b4be-e05750bb3156
Thursday 7 Dec, 1pm - Dr Heather Smith, Newcastle University - ROMtels (Roma translanguaging enquiry learning space): language and power - cancelled
Tuesday 23 Jan, 1pm - Dr Steve Humble, Newcastle University - School choice in sub Saharan Africa - Dispelling myths
Thursday 22 Feb, 1pm - Professor Robert Klassen, University of York - Can we predict teacher effectiveness? Psychological and cross-cultural perspectives
Thursday 15 March, 1pm - Professor Tim Jay, Sheffield Hallam University - Why is parental engagement hard? Politics and purpose in out-of-school mathematics learning
Thursday 19 April, 4pm - Professor Caroline Walker-Gleaves, Newcastle University - The last word on feedback: understanding the affordances and impediments of digital feedback in relation to students' work in higher education
Tuesday 22 May, 1pm - Professor Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge - Why oracy matters
Thursday 7 June, 1pm - Professor Samantha Twistleton, Sheffield Hallam University - tbc
Thursday 28 June, 1pm - Professor Steven Watson, University of Cambridge - Self-efficacy and social cognitive theory as basis of teacher professional learning theory
Thursday 12 July, 12pm - Dr Simon Gibbs, Newcastle University - Immoral education: the assault on teachers' identity, autonomy and efficacy
We will confirm the venues shortly.
Date/Time - Speaker - Paper Title - Venue
Nov 1 - 1 – 2.30pm - Professor Caroline Walker-Gleaves (Newcastle University) - Caring about research in relationships and caring: is there an appetite for such research in 21st century education institutional cultures? -KGVI 1.36B
Dec 13 - 1 – 2.30pm - Dr Helen E Lees (Newman University) - The fears of education research: conservativism, silences, silencing and making a difference - KGVI LT5
Jan 17 - 4 - 5.30pm - Professor Sugata Mitra (Newcastle University) - The future of learning - KGVI LT4
Feb 16 - 1 – 2.30pm - Professor Stephen Gorard (Durham University) - What progress has been made towards evidence-based education? - KGVI 1.36C - Seminar Slides - SG
March 9 - 1 – 2.30pm - Professor Daniel Mujis (University of Southampton) - Improving schools in coastal towns: evidence from secondary data analysis - KGVI LT5
March 23 - 1 – 2.30pm - Professor Terry Wrigley (Northumbria University) - Living on the edge: rethinking poverty, class and schooling - KGVI 1.36C - Seminar Slides - TW2016
May 2 - 1 – 2.30pm - Professor Pat Sikes (University of Sheffield) - I didn’t have any choice: research that demands to be done - KGVI 1.36B
June 6 - 4 – 5.30pm - Dr. Steven Watson (University of Cambridge) - Teacher self-efficacy and social cognitive theory in teacher education - KGVI LT5
June 22 - 1 – 2.30pm - Professor Mark Priestley (University of Stirling) - Teacher agency: what is it and why does it matter? - KGVI LT5 - Seminar series - MP2016