Archive for October 7th, 2009
IBM – Nabeel Hamed
I thought I would pop along and take in the presentation by Nabeel Ahmed a Learning Technologist from IBM. Mainly it was out of curiosity to observe the differences between the education sector Learning Technologists and the corporate versions. Terminology was the first thing I noticed the presentation was peperred with the language of the [...]
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James Paul Gee – Handheld learning 2009
After reading his book ‘What Video games have to teach us about language and literacy’ it was fair to say that I was looking forward to this one. Of course not just because of my love of video games…. well maybe that was a big part of it. I must admit it did feel like [...]
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Handheld learning 2009 – At the Brewery
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. Particularly enjoyed Malcolm McLaren’s rant about society in general. Excellent anecodote about his days as a wine [...]
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