LSRI visits Uruguay

by PryceNo Comments
In an effort support current projects and build new relationship, LSRI's Dr. Pryce Davis visited colleagues from several organizations in Uruguay earlier this month. Dr. Davis first visited the Plan Ceibal and the Universidad Tecnológica del Uruguay's (UTEC) logistic centers at LATU Technology Park in Montevideo. Here Dr. Davis, along with colleague Dr. Nathan Holbert (Teacher's College - Columbia University), met with representatives from Plan Ceibal, UTEC, and Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay (UTU) to discuss support for several ongoing and future collaborations. Attendees at this meeting included two graduates from the University of Nottingham's MA course in Learning, Technology and Education—Ezequiel Aleman (UTEC) and Camila Gottlieb (Fundación Ceibal). MA LTE alumni Ezequiel Aleman and Camila Gottlieb visit with LSRI's Dr. Pryce Davi Following this fruitful and engaging meeting, the attendees visited PTI Cerro—a community space in an industrial center in the west of Montevideo—which houses local businesses, a community school for secondary and continuing education and a new communal fablab makerspace. Over...
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PhD position available

by shaaronNo Comments
LSRI have a fully funded PhD position available to a student who meets the ESRC eligibility requirements and wishes to research how people learn to interpret fMRI. Its an interdisciplinary project applying theories from psychology, anthropology and education to understand how people read these apparently simply (but anything but) visualisations Follow the link below for more information https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BPW266/esrc-dtp-collaborative-studentship-learning-to-see-how-do-social-scientists-learn-to-interpret-fmri?fbclid=IwAR0VBsivaUhkiPf0jSPdUSLl-RK3BlZmjQuTT4vm2uhB7VUlQzhpDvZld7I ...
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Mary Oliver publishes a new paper in Learning and Instruction

by shaaronNo Comments
Does inquiry learning automatically help children learn in science? Some people believe the answer to this is a firm YES of COURSE and others NO WAY So read this paper written by John Jerrim, Mary Oliver and Sam Sims published today in Learning and Instruction to see what the data say about children in UK schools. It is currently available free without registration from this link ...
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Fashion Icons

by ShaaronNo Comments
LSRI has long been known for our style, I mean check out this photo of some of us on a recent night out ... But now its official, we have expertise in fashion design. OK so really what we really have is insight into the professional vision of fashion designers and the skills students need to develop to be successful. Check out this paper - hopefully not paywalled -  written by Valentina Caruso and her co-authors including the very stylish Shaaron Ainsworth. ...
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