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Remember, the NEWS from 2011 might still be interesting...					......................
February 2012 RE-MOTIVATING DISENGAGED YOUTH - CONFERENCE AT THE AARHUS COLLEGE Educations across Europe are facing new generations of learners. We offer them classrooms and traditional teaching. Many young people are not able or motivated to learn in such settings. So, increasing numbers of young people drop-out or complete their educations with poor results. They are what we call disengaged youth. Creative use of technology makes a difference - if unfolded within innovative didactics. We need to re-think learning, and how learning takes place, and what learning could be… We must create new ideas, new ways of re-motivating disengaged youth. And we must be inspired by creative experiments in formal and non-formal settings across and beyond Europe. The conference will offer the 100-150 participants strong inspiration through keynote experts, interactive workshops and partnership building on media based learning, laboratory learning, game based learning and creative use of state of the art technologies in innovative settings.
Conference announcement

January 2012 WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH - THE TOUGH GETS GOING !! The new generations of young people in Europe are not fitting into the old classrooms. Most stakeholders agree that we need strong innovation in our learning environments. The EU LABlearning project will contribute to this innovation - offering young people media based laboratories for learning... The project was kick-started in December 2011 - and the coordinator team has now launched a number of preparatory initiatives...
Study the first LABlearning material on the preliminary web
Youth Voice Guide
What might LABlearning facilities look like?
The Blue Strategy - how we work with LABlearning at the College
Interesting? Contact coordinator Mireia Masgrau on mireia@associacio-baobab.org - or Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk

December 2011 GOODBYE GRUNDTVIG? The European Commission has recently launched the successor to the Lifelong Learning Program 2007-13: Erasmus for All 2014-20. The sub-programme and name Grundtvig will disapeear from the programme. Many adult education stakeholders across Europe are concerned about this development: does the exit of the name Grundtvig also mean the exit of the Grundtvig spirit and non-formal adult learning? And how will that impact the European Social Model? GINCO - The international network of Grundtvig course organizers - carried a resolution from the GINCO Thessaloniki conference in December 2011, in which these concerns are expressed.
GINCO resolution Thessaloniki December 2011
Erasmus for All - Communication
Erasmus for All - Leaflet

December 2011 VERY STRONG KICK-OFF FOR LABLEARNING The recently granted Comenius project LABlearning was kicked-off in Salt Catalonia in December. The very creative project will develop and pilot different forms of inclusive media and laboratory based youth learning initiatives in the partner countries. Determined partners from across Europe joined forced with the global ICCN Computer Clubhouse Network, located in Boston US and the creative resources from Reggio Emilia in Italy at the kick-off and delivered most promissing perspectives for the project. The kick-off meetings were held in a small centre for disadvantage youth in the heart of the Salt community.
Photos from the kick-off
LABlearning hand-out
Preliminary project webpage

December 2011 THE BLUE ROOM - REFLECTIONS ON MEDIA SUPPORTED DIDACTICS Aarhus Social and Healthcare College is increasingly focusing on media supported didactics in support of our young and mostly non-academic students. Therefore the College has established The Blue Room for reflections on media supported learning. The name "Blue Room" is inspired by Disney's Blue Room - a room for free and unlimited creativity. The Blue Room is a cross-unit working group involving different College resources such as teachers experimenting with media supported learning, the College's ICT-pedagogic support unit, the College's media team sosuMedia and colleagues working with media supported learning in the international unit. The key topics the Blue Room will address are: - a continued development of media supported didactics, based on practical experiments and practical ideas, including game based learning - collecting and elaborating on College experience in the field of media supported learning - innovating the teacher roles in media supported didactics from one teacher in one class to a teacher team for more classes, including professional, didactic and media resources - contributing to overcomming the implementation gap: the distance between what we can do and what we are actually doing with media - maintaining our own Blue Room, but also promoting Blue Rooms among the learners (for immersion, in-depths reflection, meaningfulness, flow and pleasure) - qualifying the design of and participation in European projects on media supporten didactics - exploring what learning games can do and what design of learning games can do - promoting open media laboratories for learners, both in and after school The Blue Room will meet every second month and is expected to feed creative thinking into the College's learning practices. Further information: Blue Room facilitator Jan Gejel on jan.gejel@skolekom.dk