{"id":4488,"date":"2025-01-14T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:25:06","slug":"technology-is-what-we-can-learn-to-do-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2025\/01\/14\/technology-is-what-we-can-learn-to-do-2\/","title":{"rendered":"technology is &#8216;what we can learn to do&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4474\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/cake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4474 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/cake-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Digimap cake. Get your geospatial skills here.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/cake-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/cake.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Digimap cake. Get your geospatial skills here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ursula Le Guin once said &#8216;<em>We all can learn. That\u2019s the neat thing about technologies. They\u2019re what we can learn to do<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>Last year more than 5000 people at University of Edinburgh showed up to learn new digital skills. 5210 to be exact. We ran more workshop events than ever before: 604, and we reduced our &#8216;no show&#8217; rate by nearly 15%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No Shows&#8217; at free training events are a challenge for all training providers I expect. We are using new techniques to structure our programmes and get them as close to &#8216;at need&#8217; as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Having just launched a programme of AI training which is &#8216;sold out&#8217; for months ahead, I think we might do even better this year at meeting demand in our organisation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/information-services.ed.ac.uk\/help-consultancy\/is-skills\/classroom-based-courses-and-webinars\">Digital Skills Programme | Information Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula Le Guin once said &#8216;We all can learn. That\u2019s the neat thing about technologies. They\u2019re what we can learn to do&#8216;. Last year more than 5000 people at University of Edinburgh showed up to learn new digital skills. 5210 to be exact. We ran more workshop events than ever before: 604, and we reduced &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eople-place-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}