Creating Creative Technologists: playing with(in) education

Since the industrial revolution, the organization of knowledge into distinct scientific, technical or creative categories has resulted in educational systems designed to produce and validate particular occupations. The methods by which students are exposed to different kinds of knowledge are critical in creating and reproducing individual, professional or cultural identities. (“I am an Engineer. You are an Artist”). The emergence of more open, creative and socialised technologies generates challenges for discipline-based education. At the same time, the term “Creative Technologies” also suggests a new occupational category (“I am a Creative Technologist”). This chapter presents a case-study of an evolving ‘anti-disciplinary’ project-based degree that challenges traditional degree structures to stimulate new forms of connective, imaginative and explorative learning, and to equip students to respond to a changing world. Learning is conceived as an emergent process; self-managed by students through critique and open peer review. We focus on ‘playfulness’ as a methodology for achieving multi-modal learning across the boundaries of art, design, computer science, engineering, games and entrepreneurship. In this new cultural moment, playfulness also re-frames the institutional identities of teacher and learner in response to new expectations for learning

Anwendung eines neuen mykorrhizahaltigen Bodenhilfsstoffes sowie Mykorrhizierung von Pflanzen fuer die Sanierung und oekologische Gestaltung der Landschaften des Braunkohletagebaues in den neuen Bundeslaendern Schlussbericht

SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F04B107 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung, Berlin (Germany)DEGerman

Entwicklung eines mykorrhizahaltigen Pflanzenhilfsstoffes sowie Mykorrhizierung von Pflanzen zur Rekultivierung von devastierten oder kontaminierten Standorten Abschlussbericht

Different substrates and various host plants have been investigated under specified conditions to develope a technology of propagation of obligatory biotrophic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) Glomus etunicatum, G. intraradices, G. mosseae and G. fasciculatus. A simple method of economic production of a larger amount of inoculum has been developed for practical applications. Under specified conditions the useful results of AMF-inoculation of deciduous trees could be manifested after the second year, too: Sorbus aucuparia (mountain ash) and Acer platanoides (Norway maple) showed a significant better growing rate in height and diameter of the shoot both in a standard soil and in original open-cast mining soil. The same behaviour has been observed for Prunus avium (wild cherry). Thus it has been shown a sustainable positive effect of inoculation with AMF for three trees used in the recultivation; meanwhile also the non-infected plants in the experiment are mycorrhized in both types of soil. A positive effect of mycorrhizing two-years seedlings of Fagus silvatica (common beech) with the ecto-mycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus tinctorius was significant in the second vegetation period, too. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F00B263 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Bonn (Germany)DEGerman