Hannah Green
Associate
Hannah Green ran the Families and Care programme at Demos before leaving for Japan where she will continue to carry out comparative research on care and families. She was involved in Demos’ public interest consultancy work with the Department for Education and Skills, Local Authorities and County Councils. She is co-author of the following reports: Independent Living: The right to be equal citizens, (Demos 2005) Personalisation..
- schools and social networking The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released the overview of their latest study on teens' usage of social network sites. As danah boyd comments, most of the data is not surprising, but it is interesting. Here are some of the key findings: continue reading on 10th January 2007 in Digital Curriculum - Their Space Comments (1)
- ‘Twas the week after Christmas and all through the office, not a sound could be heard... ...not even a Bop-it, Wii, x-box or any of the other games that we’ve been keeping ourselves amused with over the festive season. Although we use these games to wind down, relax and have fun, Demos are just coming to the end of a piece of research that explores the skills and capabilities that a whole generation of people are developing through their use of games and other new technologies. Through the research we particularly focused on how schools should respond to this... continue reading on 4th January 2007 in Digital Curriculum - Their Space Comments (1)
- Their Space Podcast It's the seventh Demos podcast, and the first of 2007. It sees Hannah and Celia talking about the report Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. The project, funded by the National College for School Leadership, explores the skills that young people are learning through their use of new technologies and makes suggestions for how schools and policy makers should respond.You can listen in by downloading the mp3 file here, or by subscribing to the podcast feed here. Or, the audio should... continue reading on 4th January 2007 in Children of Europa Demos Podcasts
- And now for some Gnus... It might look like any old school field in England but actually it's an African savannah. Students with PDAs prowl around in a game world of lions, zebras and wilderbeasts. Each PDA is tracked using GPS allowing students to ?see? ?hear? and ?smell? the savannah they are exploring. It also displays instructions and information such as ?You?re hungry? ?You?re too hot? and ?Run to the den?. The students can retreat to the den area which provides space and time for reflection after being out on... continue reading on 29th November 2005