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Startup Weekend EDU

By on 28/11/2011 in Blog

 

I was very pleased to be asked to come and mentor at this past weekends Startup Weekend London EDU. Backed by NESTA, Virgin and StartUp Britain, this 54-hour event saw experts collaborate and develop innovative web and mobile apps focusing on education.

In the event, hosted by the games-based learning start-up Education Games Network, participants began by giving a 1 minute pitch of their idea and then they teamed up with others to take forward the most popular concepts.

I joined them on Saturday afternoon to help mentor and steer the groups. I was especially excited to about Now I Know It and a CV builder for teens that let’s them connect to local businesses and volunteer groups for work experience.

On Sunday night, after developing a prototype and detailed business plan, each team delivered a nerve-racking pitch to a ‘Dragon’s Den’ panel of judges including Pearson’s Stephen Fahey, NESTA’s Jon Kingsbury and Promethean’s Ian Curtis.

The winner was the excellent Night Zookeeper which is a creative environment for kids to share art and literacy. Well done to them!

These kinds of events are excellent for educators and developers to come up with new and exciting ideas together and also make them happen. I’m really looking forward to seeing which of the products make it further than this prototype stage!

 

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TEDx London Education Revolution Photographs

By on 21/09/2011 in Media, Photography

Below is a gallery of photographs I took during the event. They’re all released under Creative Commons license. See details in the bottom. Larger versions of images are available upon request.

More on TEDxLondon’s Flickr page.

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TEDx London Education Revolution Photos by Kristian Tapaninaho is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at suklaa.org.
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Girly Girls and Macho Men at Billericay School

By on 14/09/2011 in Education

Video ‘evaluation’ of the Girly Girls and Macho Men project we did with Billericay School. It’s about 18 minutes long but loaded with great ideas on how the project was conducted.

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Anti Bullying Videos by Pupils in West Essex CSS

By on 15/07/2011 in Education

We’ve worked with West Essex CSS (Children Support Services) in Harlow, Essex for the past two, three years. Often with photography and video based projects we’re limited to what we can share online (due to child protection issues) but these animations are perfect for sharing. Although we were limited with the time we had to work with the pupils, they were able to produce some high quality animation work. The theme was bullying and these mix media animations are the pupils take on the subject. Hope you enjoy they them and leave a comment as an encouragement to the kids!

Social Network – Cyber Bullying

Robot Bully

Armadillo

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Coming Soon: TEDx Education Revolution

By on 08/07/2011 in Announcement, Blog

Suklaa are very excited to be working with TEDx London to create an ‘Education Revolution’ which will be held at the Roundhouse in London on Saturday 17th September. Sir Ken Robinson’s latest TED talk was the inspiration for the event and he is contributing live from LA. We have an amazing line up of speakers and entertainment. Darina is working, alongside Claudia Barwell, as an education advisor. The last few tickets are available here: www.tedxlondon.com

If you’d like to keep up to date on the event and other projects we’re working on, please signup to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iO6m

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Girly Girls and Macho Men

By on 24/11/2010 in Education

Project Title: ‘Girly Girls and Macho Men’
School: The Billericay School, Essex
Funding/Organisation: Royal Opera House Creative Partnerships

Suklaa Role: Project Manager/ Creative Practitioner/ Documentation
Description:
 This gender intervention project was designed as creative approach to tackling a real issue within the school. Staff noticed that certain groups of both boys and girls were not achieving what they were capable of. When interviewed the groups of girls told us they found it difficult to think of people they are inspired by. This sent alarm bells ringing! We must find inspirational women for the young people to engage with! This project is completely collaborative and is co-designed by young people, staff and creative practitioners who are unpicking gender stereotypes and issues of masculinity and femininity. The girls project was launched when the girls were picked up in limos and driven to a country house to look at how women are portrayed in the media and explore their intelligences. The boys launched in West Ham United Football Club where they toured the stadium and found out about the multiple roles men play within the business. This aspirational project will link with various businesses and professionals from multiple industries. We don’t know quite what the outcomes will be but hope the girls who design, organise and host a conference full of talks by inspirational women and the boys will go on to write, produce and star in a piece of theatre that explores what it means to be a man. Watch this space for updates!

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