Karl - how many learners did you have at the OS? Sounds great Nick Sweeting
On 9 Oct 2014, at 21:54, Royle, Karl via OSList wrote: > > About Wolverhampton UK Headstart > > Overview > Wolverhampton is one of ten partnerships across the UK who have been awarded > £500,000 by the Big Lottery to run a series of pilot programmes to test new > ways of working to bring about more co-ordinated services, involving schools, > youth clubs, GPs and family intervention services, so that more young people > aged 10-14 can learn how to be more resilient in the face of life’s > challenges. > > Wolverhampton HeadStart will focus on: > > • A young person’s experiences at school > • Their ability to access community services > • Their home life and relationships with their family > • Their use of digital technology > > Digital Technology Strand > The technology strand is intended to provide opportunities for learners to > collaborate on developing and creating digital content which will focus on > raising awareness and help for mental well-being and building resilience. > Learners will be fully involved in the co-production of the projects and > opportunities will always be sought for the sharing and publication of > learner-created content. > > > • “Open-Space” event for learners to design and prioritise the digital > programmes to be undertaken in Pilot Phase > • Training for learners in Project Management to become “owners” of > their projects in schools > • Menu of digital learning programmes offered to all schools in the > pilot phase (priorities to be determined following “open Space” > o Film-making/animation > o Podcasting/radio broadcasting project > o Digital art and graphics > o Digital music > • Opportunities to share learner developed content within the community > and beyond via online public/private communities > • Individual learner blogs and video diaries > • Celebration event and/or Film Making Festival > > > > OST event… yesterday at wolves civic centre over 50 great ideas generated > > > > It was a great event...It was for a programme called headstart which is about > building resilience in kids to deal with life changes and issues. We are > running the digital learning strand and wanted to get kids to create ideas > for digital media products to promote the other four strands of the > programme. We had over 40 great ideas on the day and loads more...we then did > some dot voting thank you @leancoffee and Jasmina Nikolicfor that idea on the > final issues and closed the circle. They will then go on to produce the ideas > working with professionals from music, film, radio, animation and game > companies. We will also be teaching them some scrum techniques to run their > projects...Best bit was the teachers freaking out at their lack of control > > > > > > > -- > Scanned by iCritical. > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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