Dear Reader,
In this edition of your newsletter, you'll find updates on some of our flagship projects and curated links to material that we've found useful in our co-learning journeys. As an EdTech foundation, we're increasingly focused on much-needed digital and media literacy skills - in the boardroom, the lecture hall and the home. There's much that can be achieved by levering on the work of international communities of practice looking at the intersection of media, technology & lifelong learning.
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GenZ MEDIA FREEDOMS PROJECT - LONDON CALLING
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At the end of April, the two joint winners of the GenZ competition, Ian Farrugia and Claire De Battista, travelled to the UK for a week-long, London-based internship. In Ten things I learned from my GenZ Internship in London, Ian reflects on an intense week of workshops with the BBC, the Economist, VICE News, The Guardian, On Our Radar and Tortoise.
The GenZ project explores media freedoms and digital literacy from the perspectives of young people. Through internships, peer workshops and events, we are working to encourage the Generation Z cohort to find its voice on subjects such as misinformation and new media, and propose workable solutions fit for our times. To date, the GenZ Project has been supported by a grant from the British High Commission in Malta.
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Ian and Claire with Ros Atkins, BBC Journalist and Broadcaster
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DEL4ALL PROJECT DRAWS TO A CLOSE
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Our Horizon 2020 DEL4ALL project is in its concluding stage, as we wrap up with the Commission and submit our final reports. All research outputs are available on the DEL4ALL website here, and the summary news and video of our final conference are here. The DEL4ALL site will remain online to continue to facilitate networking and the community of practice interested in the impact of emerging technologies on the future of education systems.
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3CL & RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN (RISE) SIGN MOU
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The 3CL Foundation has signed a cooperation agreement with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), an independent, State-owned research institute and innovation partner. The agreement, which spans a three-year period, paves the way for the two entities to develop and share knowledge, as well as collaborate on initiatives in the Education, Research and Lifelong learning sectors. Both entities also share a keen interest in applied research and initiatives pertaining to digitalisation and emergent technologies for learning as well as skills development for professionals.
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VRTEACHER DELIVERS FIRST OUTPUTS
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We're half way through the VRTeacher Project implementation lifecycle. A milestone for the project will be the learning, teaching and training activity (LTTA) that will be held in Madrid, Spain, between the 20th and the 22nd June 2022. The LTTA will train the trainers in the new virtual reality environment to be used to train pre-service teachers in digital skills for class situations. In addition to the launch of the VR tool, the project has also developed a competence model framework for VR-based teacher training involving educators/teachers to promote the personal and professional development of teachers towards inclusive digital education.
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"We need to learn to analyse and critique information"
Online disinformation is one of the key issues New Zealand PM Jacinda Arden picked upon during the annual commencement address at Harvard University. While Arden emphasised the responsibility of media companies to do more to combat disinformation, she also stressed that we should all play a part in this: "How you choose to engage with information, deal with conflict, or confront debate, how you choose to address being baited, or hated – it all matters". Read Arden's powerful speech here.
"Why not?"
When Harrison, a middle-school student in Rockwall, Texas, asked his broadcasting class teacher Misti Knight, to take part in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, Ms. Knight's reply was "Why not?" Little did they know what this creative experiment would lead to! If you're curious, check out what Harrison, Blake, Kit and Wesley got up to in their quest to explore how students at their school interact on social media. Check out their story here and their podcast The Worlds We Create here.
EdTech Integration Framework in Schools
Check out this recent article published in Frontiers, in which the authors carried out a Systematic Literature Review on the strategic planning of technology in primary and secondary schools from 2010 to 2021. A key takeaway of this SLR is that “the incorporation of technology in the classroom requires a redefinition of the organisational culture of schools”.
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A Multidisciplinary Metaverse Future: From Education, Research and Innovation to Regulation
Friday 17th June 2022 (online)
In this online hybrid event, participants will delve into how different disciplines may play a role in this new future by looking into educational, research and innovation, and regulatory aspects. The event is organised by the Centre for Distributed Ledger Technologies and Institute of Digital Games, both at the University of Malta.
Education and Innovation Summit 2022
23rd June 2022 (hybrid)
The Education and Innovation Summit brings together key actors from the world of Education and Innovation to share knowledge and inspiring experiences on innovative education practices and on building bridges between the education and higher education communities, and their surrounding innovation ecosystems.
ICICTE conference
7th to 9th July 2022, Rhodes, Greece
The twenty second International Conference on Information, Communication Technologies in Education will address the many challenges and new directions presented by technological innovations in educational settings. The conference themes for this year’s conference are “Educational Robotics”, "Virtual Reality for Teacher Training", and "Game-based learning to promote digital skills and the cultivation of entrepreneurial mindsets". The proceedings will be available online.
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We are always on the lookout for partners for projects with an Edtech component, particularly those with the objective of improving sustainability in small states, open education and digital & media literacies. If you have a project idea and would like to join us as a stakeholder, partner and/or expert, please get in touch.
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