Founder and Chief Consultant of Village Robot. Empowering communities with learning and technology and making our world a better place. I'm an educator, life-long learner, technologist and learning space maker. I design and create school makerspaces, museum learning labs, STEAM labs, social learning spaces in exhibitions and connected community hubs. I design, create and facilitate transformative learning programs, professional development sessions and workshops for people of all ages and interests. I inspire and connect people and help build global communities of learning. Keynote speaker at conferences and events. Always up for a coffee and collaboration :) https://villagerobot.net
Articles & videos:
STEMiverse Podcast: Matt Richards: flipping learning environments with the Makerspace
Te Papa Blog: Election 2017: Education for all
Te Papa News: Hīnātore nominated as one of the Best in New Zealand
Education Technology Solutions: Creating a High-Tech Learning Lab in a Museum
We Are Museums: Why this museum lab generation is critical to learning
Core EDtalks: Mineclass - Student-directed, play-based learning
Kiwiparent: Technology & learning for littlies
Daily Edventures: After school innovation in New Zealand
Evolving Learning Space Typologies: White paper
New Zealand Science Teacher: In defence of flat-earthers
Matt Minecraft (Mini doco by Paddy McCann): Minecraft for learning
Prime News - Makerspace (Video)
Prime News - International Space Station Project (Video)
Google for Education - Case Study
Focus Magazine - Matt Richards eLearning Leader
Education Today - Heading into the education cloud
Australian Teacher Magazine - Chromebooks: Portals to learning, The issues and implications of Digital Citizenship
Port News - School at the front of technological revolution in the classroom, Cybersafety at the forefront at St. Columba, Port Macquarie's classroom of the future
Delimiter- Chromebooks for Port Macquarie school
Networks Asia- School deploys virtualised learning environment
Computerworld- School deploys chromebooks
Conferences & events presentations:
Leading a Digital School 10/08/19
NZAIMS Making Connections 4/09/18
Global Learning Networks
Google Certified Innovator Energizer 25/08/18
Independent Schools Digital Collaboration Network 27/10/17
Ruapehu Transformation Project 16/09/17
Leading a Digital School 17/08/17
Leading a Digital School 17/08/17
EduTECH 2017
LoopEd 2/06/17
Future Schools 24/03/17
Te Papa Talk: Virtual Realities 20/03/17
Blended Learning & Development Conference 8/03/17
Museum Education Conference 1/02/17
Imaging Forum 24/11/16
Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum Conference 31/08/16
Leading A Digital School Conference 25/08/16
SCICON 2016 13/07/16
Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum Conference 17/03/16
Openworld Edu 26/11/15
ULearn 2015 7/10/15
EduTECH 2015 2/06/15
ICTENSW 2015 14/03/15
makerspace
Connected Education Summit 21/04/15
Future Schools 11/03/15
ClassTECH & Young Learners conferences
AIS ICT Integrators Conference 17/09/14
EduTECH 2014 3/06/14
IWBNET- 7th National Leading a Digital School Conference 29-30/08/13
PEIC- Digital Citizenship Conference 26/07/13
EduTECH 2013 3/06/13
AIS NSW ICT Management and Leadership conference 29/05/13
PLANE Festival of Learning 19/10/12
CONTACT: matt@villagerobot.net
