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Interculturalism

Someone Else’s Shoes – An Interactive Game on Multculturalism

Presented by: 
Dr. Miriam Judge

Miriam will demonstrate ‘Someone Else’s Shoes’ which  is pilot digital game designed to educate students about the causes and effects of migration and to explore intercultural relations between people in their wider social and political contexts. It also aims to develop users’ critical media literacy skills. The project was designed by a team of lecturers in the School of Communications at Dublin City University

Dr Miriam Judge is a lecturer on the multimedia programme in the School of Communications in DCU. Her research interests are in ICT in education and she has worked as Principal Investigator on a number of research and evaluation projects in this field including the Wired for Learning Project (1999/2003); the Dundalk Learning Network (2003/2004); the Hermes Project (2004-2009) and the Interactive Whiteboard Project (2005-2007).

Day/Time: 
Saturday, 11.30 - 12.00