Digital technologies caused a shift in our educational models, from opening up new possibilities (online learning, EdTech) to requiring new forms of (digital/visual) literacy. We spotlight five examples to illustrate the multitude of approaches to education through digital technologies and literacy about the digital landscape we navigate daily.
In a following panel discussion Martyna Marciniak, Maha Bali, Paulien Geerlings, Eva Knibbe and Martin Hollinetz discuss how digital technologies force an update of educational models, methods, and approaches and how each of them addresses this shift.
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Martyna Marciniak
PL
Martyna is an artist and researcher with a background in architecture. Over the past six years her investigative work visually and spatially analysed complex cases of systemic violence and human-rights abuses. Her latest projects focus on the aesthetics of digital reconstruction, preservation and archiving, as well as the relationship of digital aesthetics to individual imagination and memory. Her artworks have been exhibited at the Warsaw Biennale, and Haus Gropius in Dessau among others.
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Photo: Sanne PeperPaulien Geerlings
NL
Paulien Geerlings (Amsterdam, 1970) is a Dutch dramaturge with an Indo-European heritage. She studied Philosophy and Theatre studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2004 she graduated at DasArts (currently DAS Theatre), a master’s programme for artistic practices in the field of theatre at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. Since fifteen years she is the head dramaturg of De Toneelmakerij, the Amsterdam theatre company for young audiences. Also, she is board member and former vice-president of the European Theatre Convention. She has a strong focus on the development of new repertoire and the coaching of playwrights. She translated several plays into Dutch, publishes essays in the Dutch Theatre magazine and is currently writing a play for the main stage on the Dutch colonial history in Indonesia.
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Photo: Sowjanya SurajSri Sowjanya Suraj
IN
A MIT SOLVE team member, Sri Sowjanya Suraj is a mentor and coach (learning & development) who values dedication, service and excellence.
With over 18 years of experience in the corporate, K-12 education and social sectors across geographies, and a strong background in Organization Development, Change Management and Learning & Development, she works with under-served school students and their teachers to help improve their 21st century skills and confidence levels so that they can be successful in their endeavors.”Excellence is a journey, not just a destination”: This perspective inspired her to mentor and inspire hundreds of school and college-going students as life-skills coaches at grassroots level.
Credits
This project has been developed and is presented in the context of the STARTS in the City project. STARTS in the City has received funding from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No. LC-01984766.
