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Sheffield Hallam University8 February 2013
#MELSIG
Smart Devices for Learning
Andrew Middleton SFHEA
MELSIG site
Welcome to
The Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group
•People
•Innovation and change
•New digital media
•Ideas and risky thinking
•Together - generating ideas, sharing practice, asking questions, taking risks…
Smart Devices for Learning
•Connectivity – always on
•Personal (not institutional)
•Authentic and ubiquitous – ever-present like 'intelligent clothing'
•Changing the learning context and the learning environment
•How?
•Today: diverse experience and interests
Arrangements
•Interest and capacity
•Morning - together here
•'Challenging' walk!
•Lunch and Afternoon - Aspect Court
•Recording ideas and discussions
•(Housekeeping)
Launch of
Digital Voices
•Representing the MELSIG ethos
•How the recorded voices of teachers, students, employers, professionals and many others can change and enhance learning
•Essays, case studies and 50 ideas
•24 authors from UK post-compulsory education
•Please pass information to your library's acquisition team