Transforming education

Last year, my colleague Dan Medicoff launched our learning service called OOKL following a successful trial with the Department for Culture, Media and Sports. Its now being used in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Portsmouth and over 15,000 students have OOKLed at venues ranging from Kew Gardens to the National Maritime Museum supporting subjects varying from art and Botany to creative writing. Read about turtle man and rockosapian to see how children use OOKL in ways that we would never imagine.

We think that OOKL shows how creative thinking and technology can transform any business whether social, physical or environmental. In the past, students made notes with pen and pencil then went home and wrote essays for their teachers to mark. With OOKL, the paper becomes the physical world around you and the pen becomes a mobile recorder that can store and share words, images and sounds wherever you are. This doesn’t stop drawing or physical activity as children can make pictures or 3D models then record and discuss their work with OOKL too. And because OOKL is mobile it means that children can learn socially and in motion rather than learn while sitting at a computer screen.

OOKL doesn’t stop there. As with all digital things its now possible for students to copy and share each other’s notes and ideas rather than work in isolation. This opens students to the realisation that collaboration isn’t cheating but a process we all use to make our ideas better.

We’d love to meet people and organisations who want to improve their products and services through an exciting process of discovery, collaboration, design and creation.

Do get in touch.

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