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This episode we talk to Ollie Bray, Strategic Director from Education Scotland. The books and reports that Ollie reference are listed below: Screen Sense: Executive Summary • ZERO TO THREE https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/2534-screen-sense-executive-summary Practical Pedagogy: 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn (Prof. Mike Sharples) – Most of this is based on the Innovative Pedagogy series that you can read for free here - Innovating Pedagogy | Open University Innovation Reports http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/ The Art of Tinkering (Dr Karen Wilkinson & Dr Mike Petrich) – All the projects here - The Tinkering Studio Projects | Exploratorium. https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/projects Young Children Playing and Learning in a Digital Age (Christine Stephen and Susan Edwards) – good foundation text to help people look at digital technology and the early years from a cultural and critical perspective. Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas (Prof. Seymour Papert) – Now available for free here Mindstorms (mit.edu) https://mindstorms.media.mit.edu – It was written in 1980 so much is no longer relvant as it talks a lot about the LOGO programming language. BUT, everyone should read Chapter 1. We didn’t mention it but Ollie also recommends this text: Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers and Play (Prof. Mitch Resnick) – much of the book can be read on Mitch Medium Blog eg: Screen Time? How about Creativity Time? | by Mitchel Resnick | MIT MEDIA LAB | Medium. https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/screen-time-how-about-creativity-time-928528c0214 Skills Development Scotland MetaSkills 4.0. https://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/what-we-do/skills-planning-alignment/skills4-0/

A discussion with Lynn Taylor and Eva Wilkinson from Education Scotland around Digital Pedagogy. In this episode Lynn talks about the Transition support from Education Scotland that can be found here: https://wakelet.com/wake/Ak-iCPVY8503BxzWBQxLu The chapter I talk about is. Robertson, J. 2019. Playing with Digital Drawing. In: Alcock, S and Stobbs, N. eds. Rethinking Play as Pedagogy. Oxon: Routledge, 3-16 Skills Development Scotland Skills 4.0 https://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/what-we-do/skills-planning-alignment/skills4-0/ Information about the webinars for support and the Digital Schools Award can be found here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/digilearn/

References to support: Mind-mindedness Https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10409289.019.1593076?af=R Accessible content from OU Https://www.open.edu.openlearn/education-development/early-years/attachment-the-early-years/content-section4.3 Elizabeth Meins and research team Https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/research/groups/mind-mindednessresearchandpractice Child Development Barbara Rogoff on child development and culture Https://quote.ucsd.edu/childhood/files/2013/04/rogoff-culturalnature.pdf Rogoff’s main work Https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-cultural-nature-of-human-development-9780195131338?cc=gb&lang=en&

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