I attended this incrediblly inspiring event at City Hall last night and was absolutely blown away by the quality and depth of the students performances.
The issues of gun and knife crime were tackled in a way the no Ad agency could have achieved. There were quite a few teary eyes in the audience I can tell you.
What impressed me the most was that although there was extensive use of technology in this project, it was all very much in the background last night allowing the students performances to shine unabated.
This is as it should be. Technology must be an enabler for the learning process and should never take over. From the students perspective they just expect it to be there doing its job as is the way in this generations lives now. If it doesnt enhance and improve the learning then it shouldnt be there.
The project featured students from South Thames FE college in collaboration with 6 local secondary schools. They were equipped with personal handheld learning devices and utilised social networking sites and tools to create, upload, share collaborate and publish their work. The projects were supported by Wandsworth CLC and myself.
I had Mark Bole and Jessica Medling from ShoZu with me last night and they were bowled over by the show and about how important social networking tools like ShoZu are becoming in allowing the students to reach new levels with their learning processes. Lots of exciting future projects and collaborations were discussed on the night.
If you want to see more then check out the website at -
http://www.wandsworthclc.org/gunandknife/ where you can see examples of their work including their great tracks
or take a llok at their Facebook group at -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2261405193or the live blog from the event at -
http://lifewise-stc.blogspot.com/ where you can see the rousing speech from the Deputy Mayor of London
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