Richard Shotton

Co-founder of Imagine Education, Richard Shotton, came into the lab to chat with us today. A large proportion of the class are interested in the use of media within education. I wouldn't say that its my favorite area, but Richard made it all sound very interesting. He told us about the current methods employed by schools to teach i.e. A teacher tells a pupil everything they know, and expects them to remember it all. Unfortunately humans are not hard drives and will not just recall all this data. Instead, what Imagine Ed try to do is get pupils to engage with whatever their learning, using IT providing a far more enriching experience.

I would really like to tie this idea in with our own locative media area. Using IT to learn is a very big aspect of LM, especially when it utilizes the huge resource of public authoring.

Mr. Shotton believes that when pupils have the chance to process the information they are ingesting then not only do they become smarter, but they become more imaginative, resourceful and creative. Ultimately, countries that use this theory will have economies that benefit, unlike the United States.