Devices and Affordances

What do we know ?

  • Device as Swiss army knife: MP3, email, voice, image and video capture and review, animation, GPS, note taking, internet
  • Privacy of learning
  • What can't the device do in school, home and community?
  • Consult the E-learning foundation  website

What more do we need?

  • Tech: Capable ICT infrastructure, Additional battery power, Thin client software
  • Training: Better training for secondary sector, more advisors
  • Research: Benefits of different teaching and learning styles, Identify teachers? idea of what teaching is

What do we need to do/we can do about it?

  • Mobile Learning in all BSF (what's BSF?)
  • Revise curriculum
  • Government pooled/co-ordinated research (Becta)
  • Research content
  • Set up a Road Map for Research into mobile learning