When a teacher got in touch after listening to episode 3 of We Make the Future, what he showed us blew us away.
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Meet the maker bringing Ada Lovelace to life
In the latest episode of We Make The Future we meet Zoe Philpott, whose one woman show celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace. The lack of diversity in the history of technology and science is a cause for great concern, and a subject we’ve looked at before in our podcast. If there aren’t […]
Use YouTube to improve literacy in the classroom? Yes really, here’s how…
Episode 6 of We Make the Future explores using video in the classroom, and how we can turn children’s love of screens into a creative force. Dominic Traynor used to be a primary school teacher. After pushing his class hard to exceed their targets for two and a half terms he thought he’d let them […]
Everything that’s wrong with the future (and how to fix it)
In episode 5 of We Make The Future, we explore just that, the future. Mark Stevenson describes himself as a reluctant futurologist, but his work helping companies, governments, and NGOs with future narratives, institutional innovation and learning means, reluctant or not, he’s uniquely placed to tell us what’s coming.
Meet the 9-year-old taking STEAM healing into hospitals
In this guest post, we find out how STEAM helps children in hospital not only keep learning, but also aid their recovery.
Learning through physical movement
In the latest episode of our podcast, We Make The Future, we explore physical movement and embodied learning (listen here).
What sort of education do you need to become a polymath?
In the latest episode of our podcast, We Make The Future, we explore polymaths and gender with Dr. Jess Wade from Imperial College London.
Turn your Android phone into a laptop with a pi-top
We love it when people hack and mod pi-tops in ways we hadn’t even thought about, and this one is a beauty!
Are we about to witness the global collapse of school exam rankings?
Singapore is leading the way in abolishing some school exam rankings, stating that ‘learning is not competition’. So how do we work out what we value if we no longer value exam results? We think we have the answer…
Win a pi-top and a copy of The Maker Mentality!
Episode two of our podcast, We Make The Future, is out now and we’re running a competition to celebrate! The second episode of our podcast is all about maker spaces; how to design then, use them and crucially, fund them. Maker spaces are spreading across the globe, but often administrators and teachers have a difficult time finding ways to […]
