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