Handheld Learning 2008

We're pleased to announce that Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate (bio) is joining a stellar roster of speakers including:

- David Yarnton, General Manager, Nintendo UK
- Chris Deering, Chairman, Codemasters
- Ray Maguire, MD, Sony Computer Entertainment
- Sean Kane, Global Head of Mobile, Bebo
- Cindy Rose, Senior Vice-President, Disney Interactive Media Group
- Tim Chaney, President, Virgin Play SA
- Stephen Johnson, author (Everything Bad is Good For You)

with global thought leaders from the education sector to discuss how the worlds consumer electronics, entertainment software and education are rapidly coming together.

Emerging publishing force will also be speaking at the popular event

Epsom, 29th September 2008

Slitherine is proud to announce it will be joining the Handheld Conference 2008 as a sponsor of the Handheld Learning Awards for Innovation. The Awards celebrate the work of innovators and innovations in the field of education that have used mobile and ubiquitous technologies to enable transformational improvements in learning. These innovators recognize the world in which young people now inhabit and the technology such as game consoles, mobile phones and web technologies that are embedded within their everyday life. Rather than being regarded as a distraction to learning they are now being embraced for rich, deep learning experiences in an out of the classroom.

Etech Group
STAND QC7

The Brewery, Barbican, London, EC1Y 4SD
13-15 October 2008

New Diploma Students Connected to Learning: Studywiz 14-19 Launched Exclusively at Handheld Learning Conference 2008

For the first time ever, students aged 14-19 can experience true accessibility to learning with Etech’s Studywiz 14-19 distinctive online learning space. To be launched exclusively at the Handheld Learning Conference in London (13-15 October), Studywiz 14-19 is a specifically tailored online learning environment that enables effective management and delivery of the new Diploma courses in 14-19 partnerships. It uniquely combines a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Mobile Interface, ePortfolio and Attendance Module. Taking 14-19 learning to new levels of accessibility, students on the move between buildings can now always stay connected to class work, school news and collaborate with their peers via chat and discussion forums on their personal mobile devices.

London 3rd June 2008. The organisers of this years Handheld Learning Conference in October will give Teachers that attend free Nintendo DS systems with a copy of Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training.

The conference, now in its fourth year, explores how technologies that are becoming common place in the lives of young people are also being used for powerful learning experiences both in and out of the school.

Key dates for this years Handheld Learning Conference are as follows:

Call for Papers

Final date for submissions: May 30th 2008
Final date for poster session submissions: June 20th 2008

For the second year running Nintendo are backing the Handheld Learning Conference where an astonishing programme, featuring some of the world’s finest thought leaders in the fields of learning, media and consumer electronics will meet in London, Oct 13th-15th, to discuss the way’s in which learning and teaching are being transformed.