Learners Y Factor

On Sunday 9 January, members of the Creative Tallis group attended the Learners Y Factor event in central London, part of the Learning Without Frontiers conference. We had been selected to present our experience of creating a Pop Up School at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma last November. Billy, Raihan, Seb and Tom performed brilliantly, despite some technical hitches, and co-ordinated a live Skype call with Joseph, one of the students from Howe High School in Oklahoma, during the Q&A session. Thanks to them, the story of our Pop Up School adventure has been shared with even more folks interested in creative learning and the future of schools.

Learners Y Factor

Tomorrow, four Tallis representatives will tell the story of our Oklahoma adventure to an audience at the Learners Y Factor event in central London. The event is designed to showcase innovative approaches to learning and ICT by young people. We are presenting the story of our Pop Up School and our disruptive presence at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma in November 2010.

Our presentation begins with a video (above) outlining the project from its inception several months prior to the trip to Oklahoma. We are then going to describe how we used social networks, scavenging skills and a mixture of handheld and online technologies to propose that the future of learning might look quite different to the schools, classrooms, corridors and textbooks of the present.

Learners Y Factor presentation on Prezi

Our presentation ends with a question and answer session with the judges which will be attended by Joseph Horton, one of our collaborators from Howe High School in Oklahoma, via the magic of Skype.

We are competing against several schools who have each demonstrated that young people have the potential to radically transform the learning process, in part through their innovative use of new technologies. We are both proud and excited to be involved in the event.