James MacDiarmid on Clubhouse

Bio

Educational Designer | BDM | EdTech | Advisor | VR
💻 www.ecocentric.space

🤔 Work in tech but spend my time in nature...

👨‍🎓Educator by trade, storyteller by heart, with a passion for education, new technologies and transformational change. Over 20 years experience in education, learning design & consultancy.
BA; B.Ed; M.Ed

🕵️‍♂️ Focussed on engineering my areas of expertise across fields into managing and creating evidence based learning programs. Programs designed to improve learning and engagement with positive psychological benefits for all types of end users.

❣️I have a great passion for the notions of biomimetics and complexity (systems) thinking, in order to shift mindset and enact meaningful change.

🗄 Work samples:

📎 Product delivered for Curiious: Wise Emotional Fitness

A social emotional training program that harnesses the power of virtual reality. A program of work designed to improve the emotional fitness of educators, students and parents from the inside-out

🔎 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT9csyYnR1s&feature=youtu.be

📎 Product delivered for the LEGO Foundation: #GreenBlueSpaces

A program designed to support physical, social, emotional and cognitive development, creativity and resilience of staff members to explore and test new ways of learning and (play) space design.

🔎 https://www.legofoundation.com/media/1581/exploration-6-inspiration-book.pdf

📎 Product delivered for Newlab: HE3AT program

A curriculum not driven by predefined inputs from experts but constructed and negotiated in real time by the contributions of those engaged in the learning process; the students. A celebration of the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.

🔎 https://newlab.com/education/new-lab-microsoft- and-the-city-of-new-york-launch-he%c2%b3at-a- steam-education-program-for-brooklyn-south- high-school-students/

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