The Learning Festival 2014 will feature a photo exhibition and a series of demos, workshops, performances and other pop-up events.

The festival will showcase various uses of technology in the classroom from around the world and enable leaders from the Makers Movement to demonstrate the use of technology to enhance creativity.

Some of the key programmes during the festival are: Ototo (Dentaku, UK/Japan) a musical invention kit that allows everyone to create a unique musical instrument.

Another one is Littlebits (Littlebits, US) known as the Legos for the Ipad generation which are electronic modules, each with a different function that snap together with magnets and allow anyone to learn and prototype with electronics.

Primo (Solid Labs UK/Italy) is a robot that teaches children to write their first programmes and algorithms. 

Another programme will be Hit The Beat (Lorenzo Bravi, Italy), which is a drum machine that transforms ordinary items into percussions.

Paper Electronics (Coralie Gourguechon, France) is functioning paper speakers which are a visual simplification, .

Do-It-Yourself Kits (Technology Will Save Us, UK) is a great way to learn skills.

Makey Makey (Joylabz, USA) is an invention kit for the 21st century that turn anything into a touchpad.

Selections of 3D Printed Objects provided by Texas A&M University (Qatar) and by Sculpteo (France) illustrate the variety of possibilities 3D printing represents, breaking down the barrier between virtual and physical worlds.

Fifty additional projects from all over the world in form of videos and documentaries, will be shown in the screening zone of the festival.

The workshops will include Looks Like Music By Yuri Suzuki (Japan/UK) which is an audiovisual installation based on the renowned Maker’s work Colour Chaser. Colours chasers are miniature robots which detect and follow a black line traced in marker pen – and translate coloured reference points, drawn by the participants, into sounds. This will be held on October 23.

Primo by Solid Labs (UK, Italy) is another workshop that will be conducted on October 29. The Primo Play Set is a playful physical programming interface that teaches children programming logic without the need for literacy. By playing with Primo, children experiment with the queue of instructions and begin learning to fix mistakes.

Build Your Own Diy Gamer by Technology Will Save Us (UK) is an LED display programme that provides the audience with the skills to programme their very first LED display and see how it can be used to create a games console and play their very own game This will be held on November 5.

 

 

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