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Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn have just been awarded a research grant from the Uruguayan National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII - Agencia Nacional de Investigation e Innovacion). Their two-year project will focus on the development of digital data literacy with so-called 'tweens' (i.e. 8 to 12 year olds). Research with Australian students will be conducted in parallel with comparative studies in Uruguay led by the project partners from Universidad ORT.

Neil Selwyn was interviewed recently for the Digitalsamtal (Digital Chat) podcast by Swedish journalist Anders Thoresson. The 30 minute conversation (which switches to English after the first 30 seconds!) covers a range of issues brought up in a keynote presentation that Neil had just given to the 2017 Makerdays conference in Gothenburg. Topics include the push for coding in schools, ways of developing students' understandings of personal data, and supporting schools to make appropriate (non)use of technology.

LNM member Michael Henderson was recently interviewed for the Beyond the Lectern podcast series by Dr Rachel Searston & Dr Jason Lodge from the University of Melbourne, Centre for Study of Higher Education

LNM welcomes Sandra Dorado Gómez – a visiting scholar from the Stellae research group at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Sandra is working with colleagues from LNM for three months (September to December 2017) – funded by the Spanish Government’s Program of Training of University Teachers (FPU). She is working in the area of digital literacy and young people – developing a range of methodological approaches towards, and theoretical understandings of, the development of digital literacies in family and social contexts.

Join us for an informal lunchtime conversation between three researchers who are all beginning to explore various aspects of social media, education & society. We’ll be talking through the empirical, theoretical and practical challenges of researching the shifting digital contexts that increasingly mediate everyday society.

Neil Selwyn is giving the opening keynote talk at the MakerDays 2017 Conference in Gothenburg on Monday 16th October. This event is one of Sweden's largest events related to digitisation and schools. It will feature over 500 teachers, policymakers, school leaders and industry representatives – exploring the digitisation of Swedish schools, Maker education and the ongoing push for coding in the curriculum.

LNM members Michael Henderson and Michael Phillips have attended the UNESCO sponsored biennial International Summit on Information Technology (IT) in Education (EDUsummIT) held in Borovets, Bulgaria.

LNM's Mike Phillips is lead author on a new publication in Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2017 published by the Association for the Advancement...

LNM's Mike Phillips has recently been in Kuala Lumpur where he presented an 8 hour professional development day to 110 teachers from local and...

UNESCO's 'Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development' launched its report on 'Digital Skills for Life & Work' on 17​th September in New York. The report - drafted by LNM's Neil Selwyn - examines how the education sector can ensure that all people develop essential digital skills for life and work.