Garry’s Rambles

I am attending the annual Kaleidoscope review in Granada, Spain, as a reviewer.

This year there are some very interesting activities that have been reported. The Mobile Learning initiative took my attention because it asked the question, when we talk about mobile learning, what does ‘mobile’ refer to? The technology or the learner?? In the report on ‘Big Issues in Mobile Learning’, one of the outcomes of the workshop was that ‘they preferred the broader concept of learning taking place in the ‘mobile age’, rather than the narrower term mobile learning.

I like this, and believe it is an important shift in thinking, as it means the focus is on the learner and a recognition that the learning doesn’t always happen in the classroom and the need to consider a variety of locations for where, when and how the learner may interact with the learning process.

There is lots of other resources at the Kaleidoscope site, which I recommend you explore.