UCLKL colleagues Laura Benton Seray Ibrahim & @minnanygren are organising a virtual workshop titled: 'How to best support children's participation in research? Considerations, strategies, and resources for ethics and consent' 8 July, 10-12pm. More info below -->

We are getting ready for our next week's very special event 'Children’s learning in digital games – The theory and the practice' Tues 22 June at 5pm. Laura Benton and @avasalou will lead us through iRead discoveries and discussions. Sign-up here: buff.ly/2Re2jUL #ireadgames

Schools are closing for summer here in Sweden and this means that we are picking up the last of our tablets and saying goodbye to the all wonderful teachers and students who have participated in the project. A sincere thank you- it's been a joy!

"Learning to read is challenging, even for witches and wizards." In our new iRead blog set in Hogwarts, Andrea Gauthier describes the development of interactive dashboards for teachers to help them follow children's progress in reading games. buff.ly/3xsWuCt

#tbt to a few years back when the tablets started arriving.

New blog post from our iRead team member @LeonaBunting about developing a questionnaire to capture children's reflections about the Navigo game in Sweden. Keep a lookout for the tiny smiley duck faces! buff.ly/2UitxuR

As this could possibly be the last tweet for iRead from Gothenburg, we would like to thank everybody for these incredibly interesting 4.5 years- what a ride! Please, please, please let's not lose touch!

Join us tomorrow 22 June at 5pm for our special end-of-project event 'Children’s learning in digital games – The theory and the practice'. More information and register: buff.ly/2Re2jUL #ireadgames

Big thanks to everyone who attended yesterday's iRead webinar on game-based learning. It was inspiring to hear practitioners and researchers in dialogue about how games may support children's reading skills. Let's keep this important discussion going! @avasalou Laura Benton

How do children express their opinions about the games they've played? One participant on the iRead pilot from Sweden gave feedback on Navigo using little drawings of duck faces. Read all about it in a recent blog by iRead colleague Leona Bunting. buff.ly/2UitxuR

We have developed a Linguistic Infrastructure composed of Dictionaries and Language Models as part of iRead’s project to develop personalised learning technologies to support reading skills. Download the white paper on Linguistic Infrastructure here: ireadprojecteu.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/2021_0…

Recently, we chatted with Project Manager Panos Papoutsis Panos Papoutsis who described the many hats his worn working on the iRead project. Panos' reflections are captured in our blog you can read here: buff.ly/3heeo5q

And just like that 4.5 years of hard work comes to an end - what an exciting, challenging + inspiring project to be a part of! We have achieved so much working together across many different countries and sectors, thank you all. Hopefully it won't be the end of the iRead story...

Proud to have co-authored this article in #ComputersAndEducation with a very determined undergrad (now graduated) who didn't give up after 4(!) rounds of peer review. If interested in #culture, #games and #learning, check it out: authors.elsevier.com/c/1daEZ1HucdOR…

We are delighted that this special issue includes 3 papers showcasing the extensive range of research from our project - see our blog for details: iread-project.eu/2021/08/19/thr…

If you think you are due an Ofsted inspection, please read and retweet this blog by our National Director, Chris Russell 👇

NEW PhD studentship with me & Michael Thomas: Mathematical abilities in Williams syndrome across development: A longitudinal study Apply: ucl.smapply.io/prog/2022_bloo… Deadline: 22/2/2022 Spread the word: UCL Institute of Education Emily Farran Centre for Educational Neuroscience @ChloeRuMarshall Professor Andy Tolmie Gaia Scerif

PIGLET? I'm not that wet! Find out which childhood book character you are by taking @ScottishBkTrust's personality quiz. scottishbooktrust.com/childrens-book…

As we come to the end of another challenging year for universities, UCL Knowledge Lab colleague Tim Neumann explains how UCL reorganised job roles through a partnership of UCL Arena UCLDigiEd & Faculties to provide online teaching for our students @alt youtu.be/Wc5qlr9ntU0