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1. Digital Natives Go Wild!
A 21st Century Afterschool Club
for Brighton & Hove
A pitch to Brighton CItyCamp2

2. A 21st Century Afterschool Club
Digital natives
The young people of today need our help:
• A 12-year-old doesn’t know life without
Google
• An 8-year old doesn’t know life without
iphones
• A 4-year old doesn’t know life without ipads

3. A 21st Century Afterschool Club
Our vision:
We want the digital natives in our city to be:
• Digital creators not just digital consumers
• Playing safe online but learning to take risks
• Sharing and learning as part of the digital
creative community in the city

4. A 21st Century Afterschool Club
The problem
• ICT education is in limbo
• ICT skills are not linked to creativity
• It is hard to change things from within schools
• Teachers, schools and the education
authorities feel they are under attack
• Parents don’t know how to help
• Digital exclusion creates inequality

5. The solution
Digital Natives Go Wild!
• An afterschool club for the 21st Century
• Digital skills in a creative setting
• Digital creatives as volunteer learning agents

6. What to teach
Ideas generated by participants at CityCamp
• Use Raspberry Pi to programe a • accessibility – learning how to use
drum machine computers with disabilities
• weekly/termly target or challenge • entrepreneurship
eg codeyear.com • building hardware
• make TV show/news items for • computer recycling
local TV/community radio station • build apps
• drumming • child-generated ideas
• build a game • video-conferencing with
• coding international schools
• online magazine • links to existing currculum topics
• digital [local] treasure hunt eg Egyptians
• graphics

7. Step 0.1: Prototype
• Workshop yesterday at CityCamp2
• Six children, 8-or-under + parents, other
adults/volunteers
• Open brief – the children chose aliens
• 90 mins
• No structure = make some films
• Paper, pens, fun
• Simple tech = 70p animation App

8. Step 0.1: Prototype
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9. Step 1: Getting the model right
• April – September pilot phase
• Term-time afterschool sessions
• Primary schools
– Elm Grove + 3 schools in Brighton & Hove
• Showcase event in Brighton Digital Festival
• Business plan
• Lots of questions to answer
– Business model, volunteers, workshops
– Links with health, education and business sectors
– Digital literacy research [university interest]

10. Step 1: Getting the model right
April – September 2012
Costs
4 SCHOOLS @ 10 WEEKS
Facilitator (2 hours prep, 2 hours delivery, £20 p/hour = £80 p/session)
Digital agent (2 hours delivery, £20 p/hour = £40 p/session)
Materials + Refreshments + Venue hire
CELEBRATION EVENT - DIGITAL FESTIVAL (SEPTEMBER)
EQUIPMENT : 5 x iPad2
TOTAL COSTS
£ 9,062
Income
SESSION FEES
3 kids on free school meals (B&H average 25%) p/session
17 kids charged @ £7 p/session
CELEBRATION EVENT (DIGITAL FESTIVAL)
CITY CAMP BRIGHTON GRANT
£5,000
TOTAL INCOME
£ 9,080

11. Step 2: Making it work at scale
• More primary schools
• Resources + Materials
• Digital creatives volunteering scheme
• Community links
– Fathers Network
– Black History/Brighton & Hove Untold
– Intergenerational links

12. Outcomes
How the community gains What the children learn
• Social inclusion • Active brains/active bodies
• Digital inclusion • Interactive learning
• Digital literacy • Family learning
• 100 kids and their • Social interaction
families in the next 12 • Collaborative skills
months and growing • Entrepreneurship
rapidly
• Technology skills

13. Equalities
• Digital inclusion as part of social inclusion
• Free school dinners – B&H ave = 25%
• Social franchise/not for profit
• Disability/accessibility expertise
• Community connections
– Intergenerational, family learning
– Fathers project, boys literacy
– Light touch CPD for teachers

14. What next?
• Support from CityCamp
• Plan sessions to start after Easter
• More work on workshop content
• More work on volunteer network
• Visit our website
– www.dnaclubs.wordpress.com