ABSTRACT: Since July 2007 there have been more mobile phones in operation in Australia than there are people ; and when you add in the other mobile, digital devices that ordinary Australians own – such as media players, digital cameras, and portable computing devices – it is apparent that there are tremendous tools for personal and lifelong learning in the pockets of our students.  In cases where devices are loaned to students on a temporary basis, students generally have very little time to develop proficiency or fluency in the use of the device.  Leonard Low. MORE >>

Learn 4 Life Blog About Advertising FAQ Consultancy/ clients Contact Second Life Consultancy What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each? My latest outing was to a Junior School with a difference this week. Peter Barrett, an old colleague of mine, had told me about the seed of this idea some months back. Knowing Peter I guessed it would be quite ambitious. All the touches are networked through an Apple Airport Extreme and out onto the internet through the school’s connection. It is not every day you see this sort of thing. Entries and comments feeds. MORE >>

Virtual Worlds News « Shocking: Taser Sues Linden | Main | AT&T Maps Your Family With Virtual Earth » April 21, 2009 Giunti Labs Developing Mixed Reality Learning With IRMOS Somehow this slipped by me when it must have initially been announced over the summer. The goal is to develop real-time interaction between people and apps over a service-oriented infrastructure.  The project sounds similar to one started by Giunti, Cisco, and the Serious Games Institute in 2007 to turn all of Coventry Universisty into a mixed-reality environment. Please try again. MORE >>

His presentation was full of interesting statistics about mobile usage among teens and across geographies – all very useful pointers for m-learning developers. Mobile for payments and tax returns: In 2007 Estonia became first country where no other parking payments except through mobiles are accepted. Tomi Ahonen delivered the first keynote address at the mLearnCon last month in San Diego. His presentation is now available here. have pulled out some slides I found interesting. The Growth rates of mobile are many times more than that of the Internet or PCs. MORE >>

There is also an example of teachers learning how to integrate iPod Touches into their normal classroom practice by developing a programme for their class (with the help of a consultant) using the video and application functions of the iPod Touch. Anna-Mieke Mulhollan Posted October 23, 2009 at 4:03 pm | Permalink I’m excited by what’s going on and we’re looking at integrating Touches soon, but I’m curious if anyone has come across issues with kids developing muscle soreness from using the ipods? Prep-6 classes have used them on a weekly roster. MORE >>