I wondered how long it would be before the stars and stripes began to wake up to the potential of mobile learning. Below is a story demonstrating the potential of the motivational dimension of sport, the opportunity for learning outside formal education and the critical role of mobile technologies.

This maybe of interest to Flux readers the third publication of emerging technologies for learning from Becta.
The ‘Emerging technologies for learning’ series aims to help readers consider how emerging technologies may impact on education and learners in the medium term. The publications are not intended to be a comprehensive review of educational technologies, but offer [...]

“Computers are no substitute for the real thing” says Phil Beadle in an article in education Guardian today. http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2269745,00.html
He goes on to rubbish BETT, the “nerds” at BECTA and presumably Futurelab and seems to suggest that the solution to all this “techie” stuff is to give everyone an HB pencil!
Such uninformed invective I usually associate [...]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/phones/2007-11-28-cellphone-college-japan_N.htm
Another example of the direction of travel?