A resource to support teaching and learning through buildings and places
Futurelab
Futurelab is passionate about transforming the way people learn. Tapping into the huge potential offered by digital and other technologies, we develop innovative resources and practices that support new approaches to learning for the 21st century. A not-for-profit organisation, we work in partnership with others to:
incubate new ideas, taking them from the lab to the classroom
share hard evidence and practical advice to support the design and use of innovative learning tools
communicate the latest thinking and practice in educational ICT
provide the space for experimentation and the exchange of ideas between the creative, technology and education sectors.
Venue Type:
Association or society
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
Digital and online resources
Create-A-Scape
http://www.createascape.org.uk
A mediascape is composed of sounds, images and video placed outside in your local area.
To create a mediascape, you start with a digital map of your local area. Using free Create-A-Scape software, you can attach digital sounds, pictures and video to places that you choose on the map.
By going outside into the area the map covers with a handheld computer and headphones (and an optional GPS unit), you can hear the sounds and see the pictures and video in the places the author of the mediascape has put them.
How to obtain
Visit the website to download the software. There is a teachers area with more information at www.createascape.org.uk/teachers_area/teachers_area.html
Vision Mapper
Vision Mapper is a free web resource to support long-term planning and decision making in education. With its wide range of group activities and inspirational materials designed to inspire broader thinking, challenge your views and create realistic, achievable action plans, Vision Mapper can help you create a long-term vision and strategy for your organisation.
Go to: www.visionmapper.org.uk
Creator
Publisher
Thinking Space
Thinking Space is a free workshop resource from CABE, Futurelab and Portsmouth City Council. It aims to support people who are thinking about, or currently undertaking, redesign and rebuild projects, including those involved in the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and Primary Capital Programmes (PCP). The resource goes some way to addressing a need that has been identified by educationalists and other stakeholders, by providing a set of activities, tools and techniques that can be used to facilitate workshop sessions to help people in the visioning and pre-engagement phases of redesign and rebuild projects.
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/handbooks/H
Creator
- CABE
- Futurelab
- Portsmouth City Council
Publisher
- CABE
- Futurelab
- Portsmouth City Council
Related teaching activities
Key stage 3 English, 1-2 lessons
En1 Speaking and listening
Choose a building and imagine you are in charge of thinking of a way of using technology (cameras, video cameras, the internet etc) to interest a group of KS2 pupils in it. In a group plan out what you would help them to do and how it might help them understand your chosen building.
Key stage 3 design and technology, Small project
1.1 Designing and making
Using ICT, design a structure for your school grounds that can be used for interactive learning
Key stage 3 English, 1 lesson
En3 Writing
Write a magazine feature in print or online to present an overview of the work that Futurelab does to support the construction of 21st century schools
Key stage 3 ICT, 1lesson
2.3 Communicating information
Which new technologies would you introduce in the classroom to support group-based approaches to learning?
Key stage 3 ICT, Small project
2.3 Communicating information
Work in groups to create a digital archive of your local community on the theme of public space and identity.
Related articles
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Thinking Space
'Thinking Space' is a new workshop resource to support visioning of learning spaces for the future. Download your free copy here.
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Resource review: Create-a-scape website
This website provides the tools, structure and ideas to create your own mediascape - a multimedia map of sounds, images and video footage of your local area.
