Today In Digital Education

This week, Doug and Dai discuss biohacking, games and learning mechanics, YouTube and suicide prevention, capitalism, climate change, SolarPunk, foldable displays, and more!

Show notes

• Brian Cox live
• Biohacker’s Handbook
• Jorvik Viking Centre
• Magna Science Adventure Centre
• Fountains Abbey
• Games (and learning) mechanics
• Shenzen (Chinese city with massive maker tech scene)
• Youtube ignored repeated reports about explicit suicide instructions spliced into cartoons on Youtube Kids
• Rutger Bregman: The Dutch historian who went viral
• Individual steps to tackle climate change
• SolarPunk (TV tropes)
• SolarPunk: a reference guide
• Foldable displays are going to make the future pretty amazing
• Why it’s so hard to quit Big Tech

Things we didn’t get to:

• 10 platforms for issuing Open Badges
• A 3-step guide to completing your thesis when you’re feeling utterly overwhelmed
• So you think you’re organised?
• Open Badges and ADCs
• What UK children are watching (and why)
• Is edtech even a thing any more?
• Let’s (not) let children get bored again
• The robot economy and social-emotional skills
• Screentime.me
• Dr. Doug’s Wednesday surgeries
• Experimental Slack book club