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It was indeed a beautiful day in Derbyshire with plenty of enthusiasm from the teachers about getting out their mobile technologies and having a go. The use of mobiles phones is always something to talk about and different schools have different approaches to mobile phones in school but they are useful tools and won't go away. As well as the Spinvox phone to blog entries below we also did some simple data handling on the spot. My mobile phone was connected to the laptop, wired in this case and everyone sent me a text message giving their favourite colour. as they popped up we could see the trends there.. bit worrying about all the black :-) We looked briefly at Teachers TV mobile phones, mobile minds which is incidentally broadcast live on Friday this week 28th March. Lots about the PDA including the applications from Wildkey that are really worth looking into to support an outdoor curriculum. As ever I've extended the event by providing on line reminders of links...

As the discussions developed one teacher commented " ICT it's fantastic way of putting the world at your finger tips. As long as you've got knack (and the kit)." :-) spoken through SpinVox

one delegate alredy has soem experience of using PDA with more able children.. "Hi. The children find the PDA is very interesting. They learn quicker than adults, at what they achieve." spoken through SpinVox

"It's a beautiful day here in Derbyshire at the Hayes Conference Centre, where I'm about to meet a group of teachers, here for a teacher day. They are really very interested in PDA's and how they can support learning and raise attainment. I'm waiting very excitedly for them to come through the door any minute now." spoken through SpinVox

It's the final SLICT conference in Birmingham, Celebrating Success In his keynote Chris Poole BSF Business Manager at Microsoft is stressing to us that it's not about the technology but the experience. He is also wondering out loud about ICT transforming learning. His initial hypotheses is that true transformation is not happening in schools and this partly about the fear of schools loosing control and letting children take control of their own learning. He's using one of the videos A vision of students today illustrating that young people are in another digital world and dumbing down when they go to school. Why is this new to people...why haven't the people here noticed the changes..? This presentation is following the usual path in challenging people to change in the 21st century and is certainly engaging people around me. But will there be a capacity to change..There are lots of us who are working very hard to help it happen. But I have some childre...