chris meade, QCDA, 2010

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www.futureofthebook.org.uk

• A think and do tank exploring the future of the book as our culture moves from printed page to networked screen

…and the potential of new media

for creative readers and writers

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Liked EnglishGrew up on a diet of telly, books and musicPublic libraries as Imagination ServiceYour local point of access to cultureHelping poetry thrive in Britain today Poetry PlacesBringing Books and People together..Bookstart…Everybody Writes…THEN… Creative Writing & New Media

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booklovers are in denialthey like to think they live in a book-lined world.

actually even the bookiest read mostly in bed,on the toilet, on the bus

books have been kicked out of the front room and sent up to bed

Where do we learn transliteracy skills?

Where are schools - really truly?

the iPad moment

Literature isn’t made of paper

Books are an experience that happen in our heads,

The object a souvenir of our visit

A platform that suits a certain kind of content

HOTBOOK moment

An anthology set in

an immersive fiction

40 litch bits

Classic texts illuminated

Contemporary writing animated

Future writing imagined

6 weeks

years 8/9

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Words in

New formats

To be

Seen afresh

Difficulty enjoyed

the research

96% of ‘lower ability’ students found it more interesting than standard approaches

86% of all students recommended it to other schools

Strong impact on Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills

“The normal way we read can be boring.However this was interactive and made my learning enjoyable.”

this IS the book

a symbol of freedoma container of culturea conversationa bounded entitya constantly changing form - from papyrus to codex to paperback to Kindle to iPadand beyond

digital expectations

• to read and write• to click through for more• to collaborate with others• to mix media• to reply

• to replay

creative reading and writing

fan fiction24 hr bookAlternate reality gamesmultimediamultiplatform*nurturing the

austens/harrypotters/peppers/hamlets/wires/ of transliterature

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join the unlibrary

The problem used to be access

& lack of stock of INFORMATION

Now we all have access to a world library

We need Imagination Services to explore it

A compass to navigate by -

DIGITAL IMAGINATION

book groups

think they’re defending free

reading against the screen

but have turned books into experiences that take a month and end in a meal

www.fictional-stimulus.ning.com a digital reading experience

Writer Without Residence

ideas

• Primary Key Stage 2 Year 5

• Working to help a lost muse

• Write Imaginary History

• Send final work to

another school

cpd

‘Getting it’

Technical skills

Finding the tools

Developing the

confidence

imagination & digitisation “Blake was always using new technologies, often abusing technologies, not for the sake of an interest in the technology per se, but what he could use it for. He believed that, rather like learning a language… if you speak a different language maybe you ask different questions. And the language of the digital age is one that Blake would have pursued.”

- Tim Heath, Blake Society