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Much excitement in our Cambridge office as we pack our bags for ? Grabouw (?where?, you ask?). Come on ? Grabouw! Major fruit growing region a few hours out of Cape Town, South Africa!
For almost a year we have been sponsoring a few South African schools with online coaching, and access to all our software via the US based charity learningacademyworldwide, but thus far it was all virtual.
Together with Theophilus van Rensburg Lindzter and Lucy Haagen (Duke University) we are working on m-uBuntu (m-ubuntu.org) ? trying to use mobile learning to deliver more project-based, reflexive learning into hard to reach schools.
Well ? as luck would have it, the US team were unable to do one of their trips, and have asked us to help out!
Hooray!
We are travelling out there tomorrow to De Rust Futura Academy, with a oversize bag stuffed with mobile devices, cables, cameras and assorted bits & pieces in what Theo enthusiastically calls a mobile classroom, and will be spending much of the next two weeks working with the students and getting a crash-course in the South African school curriculum.
All the usual flurry of device-rollout has been going on:
- badging them all up / cataloguing so we can tell them apart
- upgrading all the e-book readers / media players / browsers
- download of our top software picks for learning
- e-books and audio files versions of the poems and stories they are studying
- custom built content (using our MyLearning Author)
And they are now all safely tucked away, and ready to travel
Jess hopes to post snapshots of her visit on her very first blog - http://m-learningtravels.blogspot.com so please stop by and drop her a comment or two.
wish us luck!
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- Mobile Learning At Tedxlondon
Geoff Stead presents mobile learning as a tool for empowerment at TEDxLondon ? a TED event dedicated to shaking up education Original slides available on slideshare Presentations by the other (amazing!) co-presenters on the TEDxLondon site Transcript:...
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We are back in South Africa again this week, this time working with Spectrum Primary school, and Lucy Haagen (of Duke University) to continue the very successful m-Ubuntu project Spectrum have been part of the m-Ubuntu project, and working with mobiles...
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I am part of the team creating several different mobile learning tools. We make: mobile contenttools to help teachers make their own mobile contentplatforms to help people use SMS and MMS as educational resourcesas well as spending much of our time exploring...
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Much excitement in our Cambridge office as we pack our bags for ? Grabouw (?where?, you ask?). Come on ? Grabouw! Major fruit growing region a few hours out of Cape Town, South Africa!
For almost a year we have been sponsoring a few South African schools with online coaching, and access to all our software via the US based charity learningacademyworldwide, but thus far it was all virtual.
Together with Theophilus van Rensburg Lindzter and Lucy Haagen (Duke University) we are working on m-uBuntu (m-ubuntu.org) ? trying to use mobile learning to deliver more project-based, reflexive learning into hard to reach schools.
Well ? as luck would have it, the US team were unable to do one of their trips, and have asked us to help out!
Hooray!
We are travelling out there tomorrow to De Rust Futura Academy, with a oversize bag stuffed with mobile devices, cables, cameras and assorted bits & pieces in what Theo enthusiastically calls a mobile classroom, and will be spending much of the next two weeks working with the students and getting a crash-course in the South African school curriculum.
All the usual flurry of device-rollout has been going on:
- badging them all up / cataloguing so we can tell them apart
- upgrading all the e-book readers / media players / browsers
- download of our top software picks for learning
- e-books and audio files versions of the poems and stories they are studying
- custom built content (using our MyLearning Author)
And they are now all safely tucked away, and ready to travel
Jess hopes to post snapshots of her visit on her very first blog - http://m-learningtravels.blogspot.com so please stop by and drop her a comment or two.
wish us luck!
- Unesco Mobile Learning Week 2013 - Free Resources
The joy of momentum! UNESCO has come out firmly in favour of mobile learning, and published a series of very well researched guidelines on how to make use of it. See below to links to all the resources.To quote them:The Symposium allowed UNESCO to launch...
- Mobile Learning At Tedxlondon
Geoff Stead presents mobile learning as a tool for empowerment at TEDxLondon ? a TED event dedicated to shaking up education Original slides available on slideshare Presentations by the other (amazing!) co-presenters on the TEDxLondon site Transcript:...
- M-learning At The White House!
Our work with m-uBuntu has suddenly gone global - two weeks ago we were sitting in a rural school in South Africa, and this week we are in Washington, DC with four of the students presenting our work! We were picked as one of 3 projects to showcase Mobile...
- M-learning In South Africa
We are back in South Africa again this week, this time working with Spectrum Primary school, and Lucy Haagen (of Duke University) to continue the very successful m-Ubuntu project Spectrum have been part of the m-Ubuntu project, and working with mobiles...
- Put Those Podcasts To Work On Your Pda!
I am part of the team creating several different mobile learning tools. We make: mobile contenttools to help teachers make their own mobile contentplatforms to help people use SMS and MMS as educational resourcesas well as spending much of our time exploring...