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..
at 5:34pm on Tuesday, 29th November 2005
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 the field.
Savannah is a great example of using digital technologies to personalise learning. It's just one project that we profile in our new report with NESTA Futurelab called (appropriately enough) Personalisation and Digital Technologies. You can read the report online here
It was also covered by BBC News Online today.
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 the field.
Savannah is a great example of using digital technologies to personalise learning. It's just one project that we profile in our new report with NESTA Futurelab called (appropriately enough) Personalisation and Digital Technologies. You can read the report online here
It was also covered by BBC News Online today.
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