Handheld Learning Guardian Supplement

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Handheld Learning Guardian Supplement

« on: September 17, 2007, 02:46:10 AM »

Quick plug!

Check out the Guardian Link supplement on the Handheld Learning 2007 Conference & Exhibition which hits the news stands on Tuesday 18th September Wink


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Re: Handheld Learning Guardian Supplement

« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2007, 08:09:21 PM »

Nice, but where is the link? Wink


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Mark van 't Hooft
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Re: Handheld Learning Guardian Supplement

« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2007, 11:14:01 PM »

Sorry Mark but it's dead trees media - a newspaper

Will save you a copy for when you come to HHL 07!


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Re: Handheld Learning Guardian Supplement

« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2007, 10:06:19 AM »

Good to see a whole paper dedicated to mobile learning, rather than just the odd article - and of course a few plugs for us at WildKey in it too.


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Re: Handheld Learning Guardian Supplement

« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2007, 11:45:23 AM »

It is good to see Mobile Learning in the news! Here is the plug for RedHalo Grin


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Re: Handheld Learning Guardian Supplement

« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2007, 10:10:16 PM »

Guardian has woken up and made the link live I gave them a prod !! http://education.guardian.co.uk/link/story/0,,2170987,00.html

They've got me down as a dissenting voice graham will you ever forgive me will I be barred from the forum !!!!

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But of course there are one or two dissenting voices. Andy Black, mobile technologies adviser for the government ICT in education agency, Becta, warns: "We are seeing a divide between schools and further and higher education in the use of mobile technology. Schools follow the Stevens report for the Department of Health in 2005 - Mobile Phones and Health - that recommends use of mobiles for children should be minimised." But he says FE and HE take a more pragmatic view: "They realise the penetration of mobiles among young people is enormous. There is an emerging body of evidence that mobile learning technology is highly motivational."

regards Andy Black !!!!!


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Re: Handheld Learning Guardian Supplement

« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2007, 12:21:44 AM »

tut tut!

But I wonder if schools are really following the Stewart Report which were, after all, recommendations based on the lack of absolute proof that mobile phones were 100% safe rather than any discovery of possible health risk and presumeably the desire to conduct further research.

Certainly there are schools that are adopting a more progressive stance towards using the powerful devices that many children already own and use on a frequent basis as demonstrated on the recent Teachers TV

<a href="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1043898959196049305" target="_blank">http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1043898959196049305</a>.

Cheers!

Graham