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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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