All Research Seminars are held in the MultiMedia Centre, Westwood Campus.

 

CeNTRE Research Seminar

What are serious games?	Sara de Freitas, Mark Childs, Jay Bal
21 May 2008 12.00 - 2.00pm	Open seminar

 

There is no single definition of serious games, but they are generally seen as involving: game like activities; the use of ICT; and often out of school learning. They might cover simulations debating games and role plays. But why do them and what do they offer users?

To address this question Sara de Freitas, Director of Research at the Serious Games Institute at the University of Coventry will provide a background and explain what she sees as the potential of the serious game. Mark Childs of our own Learning and Development Centre and Jay Bal will then provide examples of serious games they have studied and draw out conclusions. There is a lot to cover in a short space of time, this may be part seminar part round table. You are very welcome to come, be both serious and game.

 

CeNTRE Research Seminar

Transforming literacy teaching and learning in the digital era:opportunities and challenges	Jackie Marsh, Professor of Education, University of Sheffield
13 March 2008 12.30 - 1.30pm	Open seminar

Current challenges facing literacy educators in a new media age will be explored, drawing from research that has explored young children's digital literacy practices in homes and communities.

Two projects will be considered in which teachers (in a Foundation Stage setting and a Key Stage 2 class) have been engaged in initiatives to transform the literacy curricula offered in order to respond appropriately to the contemporary communicative landscape. The projects have focused on the use of moving image media and Web 2.0 social software in the literacy curriculum. The presentation will consider the need to develop appropriate pedagogical practices and assessment criteria that more readily meet the requirements of a generation of learners who are engaged in a wide range of digital literacy practices outside of school.

 

CeNTRE Research Seminar

Theory and the Educational Use of ICT	Bridget Somekh, Manchester Metropolitan University; Yrjo Engestrom, University of Warwick; Kristina Kumpulainen, University of Warwick
25 January 2008 10am - 3pm	Invited participants

Although there is a large body of empirical findings into the use of ICT in Schools, there is little about the wider theoretical context. This seminar will attempt to explore some of the theories which are helpful in making sense of ICT in education.

 

International Research Forum SRTL-5

Reasoning about Informal Inference	5th International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy
11 - 17 August 2007	SRTL-5

CeNTRE is pleased to host SRTL-5 and welcomes delegates from Universities in Israel, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, USA, Cyprus, London and Leicester.

The Forum is sponsored by The Royal Statistical Society, The American Statistical Association, University of Warwick Institute of Education and University of Leicester School of Education.

 

Joint Seminar: CeNTRE for New Technologies Research in Education and Pedagogy Thematic Group

New Literacies for New Technologies	Dr Julia Davis, University of Sheffield
Wednesday 18 April 2007 12.15 - 1.15pm MultiMedia Lab1	Follow this link for an interview with Dr Julia Davis by Dr Michael Hammond.

The Seminar draws on social accounts of literacy to explore the growing rise of blogging and other new collaborative online practice.

Dr Julia Davis is a member of the Literacy Research Centre at the School of Education, University of Sheffield where her teaching mainly centres on the MA and Ed.D Literacy and Language programmes.