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Digital Learning-What comes next with Channel 4

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

What Comes Next?
The Channel 4 Education Summer conference gathered together an eclectic mix of digital media and education professionals to consider how the UK Education system “struggles to respond to ever increasing demands, new policy initiatives, new demands from parents and students, and all the innovations in pedagogy, technology and neuroscience.”
This was a timely [...]

Mobile? at Manchester College

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Mobile? Learning at Manchester College.
The LSC will allocate a further £2.5m to continue to support the mobile learning in Further Education and Skills project ,MoLeNet for another year to add to the £12m spent in 2007/8.
Despite the crisis in the LSC capital funding the MoLeNet project goes from strength to strength industry and education members [...]

Mobile Learning BLOOM’s in House of Commons

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Bloom in the House of Commons
Whilst most of the gossip in the bars and tea rooms was about who would be the new speaker, mobile learning was getting some exposure in dining room B as Roberta Blackman-Woods MP hosted a launch of the “bite sized learning opportunities on mobile devices” (BLOOM geddit?) project.
The partners in [...]

Don’t ban it…use it!

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Most of our schools and colleges ban Youtube but is there another way? Edutopia think so…..
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-youtube-teaching-video