Parental Geekery

Parental Geekery


Parental Geekery episode 22 - The Thinking Digital special edition

June 04, 2013

This episode of Parental Geekery is completely devoted to John talking about his experiences at the Thinking Digital conference. We take a tour through the schedule, covering the following:


Sugata Mitra and his TED video


Mike Bracken and his work on the gov.uk site.


Alex Reben and his robots


Ruth sneaks in a quick recommendation for the timehop app, and somehow we make our way onto Google glass


John reveals that he had a teenage crush on Maggie Philbin, and talks about her current project, Teen tech


John met Drew Purves from Microsoft, and completely failed to meet Documentally. He also talks about Aza Raskin and Sue Black‘s talk about Bletchley Park.


And finally John talks about Aral Balkan and the Code Club project


And just before we sign off we talk about watching Game of Thrones and playing Neverwinter


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