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Exhibition Idea : My Project as Augmented Poster

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This is intended as an example of an inetractive exhibition poster that can explain the work from my final project. Meant as an interactive experience, if you have a smart phone with the app Blippar  you should be able to interact with the items located within picture frames. Click on the image or download a full size copy!

Article: The Influence of E D Hirsch

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An article based on some of the research I carried out for this project was recently featured in SecED magazine: http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/best-practice/curriculum-the-influence-of-ed-hirsch/

Gove vs Kwame-Appiah - Radio documentary Clash

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Two nice radio examples of the main issues running through my research. First we have Michael Gove's School of Hard Facts in which the BBC highlight his dependence on the thinking of E.D.Hirsch and in doing so changes our curriculum into a nonsensical real life quiz show (except its for 12 -14 years and doesn't end in anyone winning a holiday for two to the isle of Fernandos!!) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ng4h5 To counter this I have provided the link to Kwame Anthony-Appiah's Reith lectures which aren't particularly addressing the idea of the changes to the recent UK curriculum, however his understanding of the complexities and nuances of culture and his call for the end of value judgements based on which culture we percieve to be 'better than others' is surely the antidote to Gove's depressingly archaic view of what Education is and can be. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081lkkj

Exhibition Video

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A video of my final exhibition of my MA work, delivered at Haggerston School, London. This was delivered as part of the staff CPD and focussed on allowing staff to understand the rationale behind my desire to challenge the recent changes to the curriculum but also allow them to experiment with Augmented technology and hopefully encorporate this into their teaching exhibition-unit 5 from Mr Sloan on Vimeo . PASSWORD = culture