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Follow Handheld Learning 2007

Ewan McIntoshOctober 10th, 2007

The blogosphere is beginning to become alight with excitement on the Handheld Learning conference taking place in London.

LTS’s own Derek Robertson will be leading a seminar today alongside Marc Prensky on the potential of handheld games consoles. I’d have loved to take up the invitation to join in via Skype, but the time differences with New Zealand mean a very early rise.I, along with others, will be relying on Leon Cych’s live and archived video streaming to see what’s going on. Also worthwhile, is taking a look at the blog posts on Prensky’s opening talk, where the statistics on the numbers of mobile phones in the world compared to PCs make me wonder why more schools are not encouraging their students to use their own devices to share, create and publish on the web:

  • PCs 200 million
  • PlayStations 100 million
  • GameBoys 150 million
  • DS 50 million
  • Mobile phones 1.5 billion

Can we say there really is a digital divide in terms of available equipment these days? This all reminds me of why Stephen Heppell keeps emphasising the importance of mobile phones in our classrooms.

Categories: Gaming, Mobile, Technology

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  1. Tony Vincent October 10th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
    There are so many mobile phones out there–with way more computing power than the computers in my school when I was in primary school. Marc said in his session today that once there’s a killer application for mobile phones and learning, things will begin to change. I wonder what that app will be?

    Anyone who would like to follow Handheld Learning 2007’s “microblogging” over the next couple of days via Twitter go to http://twitter.com/hhl/with_friends. Wish you were here Ewan!