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Welcome observations from Geoff at CTAD about learning content for the PSP.
I am just back from the handheld learning conference in London, where I showcased our content authoring, and in particular the PSP materials. It seems we have tapped into a latent, and unfulfilled need. We know that there are a lot of [...]

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Ok, this is a brilliant idea from Gigabyte out of Taiwan—on two fronts. Firstly, their new g-re line of devices are being marketed as a mobile learning phone.
The g-re is a slider phone with a neat look and rich content. Besides ten novel motion-sensing JAVA games, g-re is equipped with an unprecedented GEPT [...]

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Some good commentary this week from Russell in The PDA is Dead, Long Live the Smartphone.
Latest from Gartner is that Smartphone sales are soaring, eagle-like, into the ether, with an increase in sales of 75%. During the same period, PDA sales barely rose 5%, with Palm not even bothering to launch a [...]

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“Nokia and international children’s organisation, Plan (formerly Foster Parents’ Plan), have joined forces to use modern communications technologies in Africa to raise children’s awareness of their rights and opportunities. Nokia has provided an initial donation of 1 million Euros for 2006. The first stage of this new joint effort will see Nokia focus on supporting [...]

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After a far too long hiatus i’m back (from Bangkok!—more on that very soon.) So for starters, a bunch of new mobile learning material
Mobile Learning on the Cheap
Lots of good ideas here that range from how to use PDAs in the classroom to SMS based activities.

An exploration of various currently available devices by [...]

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I’ve been trying to formulate a reasonably plausible handset literacy checklist to inform some upcoming projects. Since a handset is the closest many people will come to owning a personal computer and may be used to accomplish similar tasks, I thought i’d start with a list for computer literacy and see how they compare.
Computer Literacy
My [...]

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A collection of projects and resources i’ve found over the past few weeks. Most—but not all—are directly related to mobile. A few cover general uses of ICTs in learning. Enjoy!
MLearn
A collection of papers from the 2003, 2004 and 2005 MLearn conferences. Of particular interest are the “Book of Papers from MLearn 2003″ (3.5MB PDF) and [...]

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I ran into a lady from Motorola in Boston who told me her friend’s 4 year old has been playing our Mobile Bubble Pop game. Obsessively.
I first found this neat. Then somewhat disturbing (especially the obsessive part.) We never expected someone so young to play the game. Not that it’s a bad game for a [...]

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