Young kids connect school with home via Futurelab’s Dream Catcher project
I just watched a short video by Futurelab about the Dream Catcher program. Dream Catcher is a mobile learning project which lets young kids capture what they have learned with mobile devices and then encourages them to share their experiences with their teachers, their parents and their friends. The idea is not only to connect what they are learning at school with what they are learning at home. Furthermore, only very few young children can explain what they have learned in school all the time. If they actually show their parents on their mobile device, it will also improve the parent-child communication.
Source: http://www.futurelab.org.uk
What I really like about the idea is its simplicity. Any school could set this up with a few second-hand digital cameras on a very low budget. Dream Catcher shows that many great ideas can be very basic. I believe that there is a lot of potential there, especially considering how easy many cameras, netbooks and mobiles are to use these days. Those 4-year old kids handle these digital devices, like it’s the easiest thing in the world.
I really hope to read more about similar projects in the future.
Check out the video here:
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/multimedia/video/Video1245
