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SUMMARY:Mobile Learning\, Creativity and Schools - a New Zealand  perspect
 ive - John Eyles. Research and Alliances Leader at Telecom New Zealand\, V
 isiting Fellow at AUT University and Chair of the EON Foundation.
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:Students walk into schools with mini computers in their pocket
 s more powerful than put a man on the moon. The mobile phone is their Swis
 s army communications device of life\, with phone\, camera\, video\, inter
 net and network. There is a mobile learning revolution underway. The learn
 er is mobile\, the learning device is mobile\, and networked. Mobile learn
 ing (mLearning) is novel in that it facilitates delivery of individualized
  learning to the right person\, at the right time\, in the right place\, t
 hrough the right learning style and pace using portable electronic two-way
  multimedia communication devices that are context and location aware. The
  seminar looks at some of the impacts and applications of emerging mobile 
 phone enabled technologies such as QR codes\, the Geoweb\, Sensor Based Ne
 tworks\, Virtual Worlds and cloud based social operating systems have on t
 he development of creativity in learning and play. This will be viewed thr
 ough the lens of the New Zealand experience in the compulsory education an
 d tertiary sectors. Discussion is encouraged.\n\nPRESENTER: John Eyles. Re
 search and Alliances Leader at Telecom New Zealand\, Visiting Fellow at AU
 T University and Chair of the EON Foundation. For the past two years John 
 has been working with the Research and Venturing group at Telecom New Zeal
 and looking three to five years into the future at opportunities and threa
 ts for the business. His areas of focus has been around mobile learning\, 
 social media\, virtual worlds\, open innovation and online collaboration. 
 With the support of the EON Foundation\, John recently launched Project Mo
 bilise - a collaborative endeavour to enable teachers to use and teach thr
 ough mobile communications devices. You can learn more about John at http:
 //www.johneyles.info\n\nCONTACT: Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are 
 planning to attend.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, room GS5
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