Mobile learning: The bigger picture » The past present and future of mobile learning 22nd September 2009, 05:50 pm by Sarah Bartlett In: Education John Trinder from University of Glasgow rattled through some key historical developments in mobile technology from Apple’s Newton MessagePad in 1993 onwards, but once he’d listed some of the array of mobile devices available in 2009, it was time for a second key message of the CILIP Multimedia and Technology Group Annual Conference – namely, that there’s no “best” mobile technology; there’s only the best one for a specific context. MORE >>

skip to main | skip to sidebar FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES THE BEST OF SERIOUS GAMES THAT CHALLENGE US TO PLAY AT BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE Tuesday, October 06, 2009 Serious Games as Mobile Learning At School Via: Learning and Teaching Through Technology - Sheffield School Pioneers Mobile Phones For Learning Students at Notre Dame High School in Sheffield will soon be enabled to use their personal mobile devices - including mobile phones - in the classroom and around the school. There’s a huge untapped resource staring us in the face.&# MORE >>

He strongly beliefs (and I concur) that the emphasis of future education should not be on instruction, but on engagement. Mobile devices on the other hand have always been used to connect with others. This exchange of ideas that goes back and forth between members of a community is essential, because “more than any other way, people learn not from courses or Web sites but from each other … through dialogue” (Rosenberg, 2006, p. By providing and disseminating information in a way that a mobile device can log on to it whenever the need arises, informal learning is optimized. MORE >>

Lifelong learning is: often self-directed, interest and needs driven; it occurs predominantly in informal and too-rich environments; and frequently implies a collaborative activity (Fischer & Sugimoto 2006) among learners transiting through learning events in life. Technological advancements have delivered mobile devices and applications which meet and surpassed early requirements and which have position mobile technologies as an essential part of the new ecology for lifelong learning. for the IADIS mobile learning conference that will take place on 10 - 12 March 2011. MORE >>

Mobility in Education is not a future trend; it is happening right now all around us.  Naturally you can consume all these videos from a number of mobile (or not) devices. running on the cloud, to collaborate with his peers on the fly from any mobile device and at any time. Microsoft: After having seen the Microsoft keynote last week about the new Windows Mobile 7, I was curious to go see a device or two and experience the OS first hand. Microsoft had one of the LG devices there (don’t remember the model name), and got a chance to play with it a bit. They MORE >>