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- Location:
- London, United Kingdom, E16 1AG
- Phone:
- 02075118773
- Mon - Fri:
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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- A Tale of Greed & Ignorance 8:38am Sep 23
- Preview: Handheld Learning 2009 4:50am Sep 23
- Should a 4-year-old have an iPhone? 9:36am Aug 24
Events
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- Handheld Learning 2008
The Brewery
Monday, October 13 at 11:00am
A conference like no other. Cuts, cuts, cuts. Everywhere one looks in British politics at the moment the talk is of hacking great chunks out of public expenditure. The cheek of some of those involved is quite breathtaking, considering how wedded they have been to ever higher state spending...
Once upon a time there was a poor farmer who toiled night and day tending for his crops and animals. He worked so hard that his knees were worn and his back was crooked. He decided to ask his wife to help him around the farm. 'How can I possibly help you?' replied his wife...
For our twenty-first century kids, technology is their birthright When I recently upgraded my iPhone 3G to the 3Gs (after almost 1 year, so I got the discount) I had to decide what to do with the old one. My 4-year-old son was clamoring for it, and I said OK. But then I thought about it...
Teacher and learning consultant, Chris Nash, takes a long cold look at how the mLearning revolution failed to deliver on its promise of personalised anytime, anywhere learning...
They say you should never make predictions, especially about the future so it didnt come as a surprise that our request to a group of thought leaders to make predictions for 2009 was met with a little reticence...
Becta is looking to transform education in the UK, through use of innovative and creative technology...
Handheld Learning
Come to the Handheld Learning Awards for Innovation on Monday 13th October:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=38
In January 2007, the Rt Hon Jim Knight, Minister of State for Schools announced The Home Access Taskforce, charged to consider and advise on the ways in which home access to technology can be delivered for all school-aged children in England...
It's impossible to spend any length of time in the world of mobile learning without coming across Professor Mike Sharples. Some have even suggested that he is the "Godfather of Mobile Learning". Certainly he is an innovator in a league practically of his own...
Former Chairman and President of Sony Europe, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and now Chairman of Handheld Learning gazes into the crystal ball and considers his bet's on the new Apple iPhone.Now here is one particular view of the world, perhaps controversial, but a different way of looking at...
Handheld Learning
The conference is the world's leading summit about learning using mobile or ubiquitous technologies. Simply put this includes the use of mobile phones, game consoles, super low cost laptops and various web services such as social networking, media sharing, virtual worlds and instant messaging.
Confirmed speakers for thi...s years conference are world class and include Steven Johnson, danah boyd, John Seely Brown, Stephen Heppell, David Cavallo, Andrew Pinder, Marc Prensky, Laurie O'Donnell and Keri Facer. The event attracts up to 800 thought leaders, opinion formers, practitioners, policy/decision makers and, of course, young learners and is great fun!
Free Nintendo DS & game for delegates registering before July 31st.Read More
Confirmed speakers for thi...s years conference are world class and include Steven Johnson, danah boyd, John Seely Brown, Stephen Heppell, David Cavallo, Andrew Pinder, Marc Prensky, Laurie O'Donnell and Keri Facer. The event attracts up to 800 thought leaders, opinion formers, practitioners, policy/decision makers and, of course, young learners and is great fun!
Free Nintendo DS & game for delegates registering before July 31st.Read More
Experience Innovation. And be a part of it
Time:11:00AM Monday, October 13th
Location:The Brewery
May 30, 2008 at 1:08am
I was recently invited to attend the final workshop of some impressive work conducted in my home borough of Lewisham that was part of the Black Pupils Achievement Programme (http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/ethnicminorities/raising_achievement/bpaprogramme/) (BPAP)...
Evaluating game-based learning.With the Byron Review (http://www.dfes.gov.uk/byronreview/), that looks into the influence of videogames on children - led by child psychologist Dr Tanya Byron, about to be published it seemed apt that we should kick off our hero innovator series with Derek Robertson...
A thirteen year old from Peckham taught me a new word this week. We'd been looking at some new devices from gaming tech to the new breed of ultra low cost laptops when he said of one particular model, "that's not a laptop, it's a craptop"...
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