About the Forum

By bringing together the creative, technical and educational communities, Futurelab is pioneering ways of using new technologies to transform the learning experience.

This event is intended to bring leading figures from schools, colleges and government together to debate how to make learning more playful.
Speakers include: Lord Jim Knight; Mark Prensky; Stephen Heppell; and, Kieron Kirkland. Tickets costs £135 and attendees can register online.

A one-day symposium for the presentation and discussion of new research into how young people are using media in their everyday lives, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which the opportunity to make and share media material online does, or does not, make a difference.

This is a practical marketplace event showcasing how local authorities can achieve the triple win of improving lives, driving down cost and delivering efficient services. Driven by the local government sector this event will bring together colleagues to share best practice and demonstrate how to use readily available digital technology to deliver effective and efficient local public services.

The International Institute of Communications (IIC) Annual Conference is internationally renowned for its incisive analysis of key trends and discontinuities in the communications market and the regulatory and public policy issues that help to shape the telecommunications, internet, media and content industries.

This year’s Conference, which takes place at Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I, Barcelona, is entitled ‘Trends in Global Communications: Riding the next digital wave’. It will take as its backdrop the continuing and challenging process of transformation affecting the communications sector and will offer original insights from leading practitioners and debate critical issues.

This conference will be a major gathering for all teachers, teacher trainers, researchers, policy-makers and media professionals interested in teaching and learning about the media. It is jointly organised by the Media Education Association and the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, London, in partnership with Ofcom.

Bringing together practitioners in all levels of the 3-19 education system with researchers in the fields of education, literacy and media technologies, the Conference will provide a unique opportunity to share information, evidence and ideas about media teaching and learning at different age-levels.

There will be an ‘academic’ strand of papers and debate, and a ‘CPD’ strand of workshops, as well as major keynote speakers and discussion panels. An exhibition of resources, hardware and software from educational publishers, media industries and other service providers will provide information on new ways to support learning and teaching about the media.