This document discusses how digital education can help students at University College London (UCL). It suggests using narratives and storytelling, such as re-telling one's journey to UCL through the story of "The Owl and the Pussycat." Students are invited to share their digital dreams and will receive a digital prescription or voucher in return. The REACT project aims to help "hard to reach students" through student sessions using these storytelling and creative techniques. The document promotes generating inspiration for the UCL Education Conference through such novel pedagogies.

1. Digital Nirvana
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2. Gingerbread dreams: What happened on the
way to UCL?

3. How can digital education help you at UCL?
• How can novel pedagogies help?
– Narratives and story telling
• (Re)tell your story through a well known tale
• Reinvent the story to highlight your experience
– Making and creative construction
• Make ideas concrete by creating something
• Activate your ‘design thinking’
• Infinite possibilities…

4. The Owl and the Pussycat
Nonsense literature – like Dr Seuss, Sukumar Ray,
Amos Tutuola, Michael Rosen
Our challenge:
re-tell your journey to UCL through the Owl
and the Pussycat story

5. What did we learn from the Owl and the
Pussycat?

7. What are your digital dreams? Put them in
the box and give them to us...
…and in return we will supply your digital
prescription at our stall over lunch and…
…give you a voucher to help you on your way!
Tell us if you want iOS or Android

8. • REACT project – ‘hard to reach students’
• 5 student sessions planned for Autumn term
• Pilot session ran in June – excellent feedback
• (weather was in our favour…)?!

9. • … inspiration for UCLU Education Conference..

13. And they gave us …

14. Our response
…A digital
“prescription”…

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We need “the opportunity to grant ourselves the mental “elbow
room” needed to free the cognitive miser from digging itself into a
hole. It takes a trickster to let the genie out and make us see afresh.”
(Ackermann 2015, p. 410)

16. Digital Nirvana
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17. Listen to Belinda and
fill in the blank
"in digital heaven [????]
comes first"
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20. The Logical Song

21. Thanks!
https://padlet.com/mooc/box
moira.wright@ucl.ac.uk