Digital Nirvana

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Gingerbread dreams: What happened on the way to UCL?

How can digital education help you at UCL?

• How can novel pedagogies help?– Narratives and story telling

• (Re)tell your story through a well known tale • Reinvent the story to highlight your experience

– Making and creative construction• Make ideas concrete by creating something• Activate your ‘design thinking’

• Infinite possibilities…

The Owl and the Pussycat

Nonsense literature – like Dr Seuss, Sukumar Ray, Amos Tutuola, Michael RosenOur challenge:

re-tell your journey to UCL through the Owl and the Pussycat story

What did we learn from the Owl and the Pussycat?

What are your digital dreams? Put them in the box and give them to us...

…and in return we will supply your digital prescription at our stall over lunch and……give you a voucher to help you on your way!Tell us if you want iOS or Android

• REACT project – ‘hard to reach students’

• 5 student sessions planned for Autumn term

• Pilot session ran in June – excellent feedback

• (weather was in our favour…)?!

• … inspiration for UCLU Education Conference..

And they gave us …

Our response …

A digital “prescription”…

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We need “the opportunity to grant ourselves the mental “elbow room” needed to free the cognitive miser from digging itself into a hole. It takes a trickster to let the genie out and make us see afresh.” (Ackermann 2015, p. 410)

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Listen to Belinda and fill in the blank

"in digital heaven [????]comes first"

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The Logical Song

Thanks!

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