In all parts of education and training, handheld devices such as games consoles, smart-phones, and net-books, connected to the Internet, are altering the experience of learners and the practices of teachers and trainers.
Successful deployment of such devices can have powerful beneficial effects on learning, and there are many examples of excellent practice; but education and training is organised in sector-based silos so rarely do practitioners get together to share approaches, to learn from each other, and to tackle challenges that they have in common. Meanwhile, the learners are moving between the silos.
The three main aims of this workshop are to:
- Share know-how in the use of handheld devices in learning and teaching;
- Identify common and contrasting themes, challenges, and solutions;
- Capture excellent practices for subsequent dissemination, and identify issues to raise with policy-makers, device and service vendors, and software developers.
A subsidiary aim of the workshop is to assess the value to practitioners of examining technology in learning issues on a cross-sectoral basis.
This workshop is for schools, colleges, universities, work-based learning, and community education.
The workshop will be facilitated by Professor Gilly Salmon, head of Leicester University’s Beyond Distance Research Alliance, and it will take place between 16.30 on Thursday 12 November to 15.30 on Friday 13 November at the National College for Leadership for Schools and Children’s Services in Nottingham.
Full details at: http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=339
If you wish to attend this event please express an interest using the form at http://tinyurl.com/y9t6an2 by no later than 12 noon on Friday 23 October.
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