Posted At : September 4, 2009 2:33 AM
I will be speaking at the Handheld Learning 2009 on Monday October 5th 2009. My presentation is part of the "Best Practice in Action" strand from 11am to 5pm in the Upper Sugar Room. The seminars will be chaired by all-around-good-guy Andy Black from Becta.
The good news is that Monday is a public open day with free entry to Handheld Learning. It is free of charge and open to the general public, Teachers, school governors, parents, employers, accompanied minors and anybody who is interested in the positive impact that mobile, always-on computing is having on the quality of learning and teaching experience.
The following is an overview of the session from the conference website:
In 2007, in an attempt to promote the use of oral Irish language, the Irish Minister for Education and Science announced a significant change to the proportion of marks awarded for spoken Irish language in the State examinations. Further to this, Learnosity worked as technology partner in an exciting mobile learning project initiated by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). This project was very successful, and continued in the 2008/2009 academic year.
With oral language fluency of the utmost importance to secondary language acquisition, this project focused on verbal abilities, allowing students to use any phone to dial into a voice application, and answer a series of voice-based questions. It also enables students to communicate one-to-one in real time (using voice or text), allowing them to use the target language in role-plays based on real life scenarios.
This mobile language learning platform has since been deployed in a large scale pilot project conducted by the Australian government, in the teaching and learning of the Indonesian language across three Australian states. Students involved in this project showed significant improvements in spoken language abilities. The results of this project will be outlined in the presentation, as well as preliminary findings from various additional deployments in Ireland, Saudi Arabia, the US, and the Open University (UK).
Time permitting, I'll be giving a demo of the iPhone Application we built for the Open University.
If you're going to to be there, please drop me a line. I'll be on +353 857 111 222 (Call or SMS). You can also get me on Twitter (@gcooney) or email gavin [at] learnosity [dot] com.
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