Interesting morning listening to a fairly diverse set of speakers at the Tuesday session of handheld learning. None of the keynotes actually addressed handheld learning as such instead they addressed more general issues around education and cultural systems.
Dodgey iphone photo of the porter tun room
Particularly enjoyed Malcolm McLaren’s rant about society in general. Excellent anecodote about his days as a wine taster. Who would have guessed. Not sure I completely agree that we are culturaly restricted as he made about but perhaps he had a point. He did mention that ‘Holywood consider stupid cool’ personally I think it is going the other way these days. One example that springs to mind is Juno where the protaganist is anything but stupid. Anyway, to cut a long story short the first three keynotes set a nice tone for the conference with a mixture of entertainment and optimisim.
Lots of resources available on the handheld learning website, including footage of last years confernce proceedings. Worth a look if you have the time.
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