Computer tablets have become increasingly popular devices in both home and business. But statistics show that the most common uses for these devices are watching movies, playing games, browsing the internet and as a companion device when watching television. Richard has been fascinated with portable computing since he started developing location-based games using the GPS functionality of mobile phones. Since then, he has become a huge fan of tablets and see them as a game-changer in everything from education to care for the elderly. In this talk Richard will discuss some of the work being done at LocoMatrix: Invisible Buildings - virtual archaeology / Postcardie - a social network for the elderly, and the Badgelaureate - education for the 21st century. Finally, despite his huge fondness for tablets, Richard will also predict their early demise!

1. Keep taking the
tablets, Kids!
or, a view from both ends of the
sausage factory

2. The sausage factory
● Input: Report from Sussex Uni
Students MSc Informatics
● Output: Fuse Report and
implications for education
● Tablets cf Type Setting
● Wapping dispute 1984
● Flexible working, a no-strike
clause, the adoption of new
technology and the end of the
closed shop

3. Fused - What is it?

4. What do we want as an output?
Locomatrix - location-based games using GPS
Lean Startup
● Entrepreneurs are Everywhere
● Entrepreneurship is Management
● Validated Learning
● Innovation Accounting
● Build-Measure-Learn
What else we do
● theatre
● elderly
● things with tablets

5. My Music
The pre-turtle generation
BBC B (1981) Yamaha DX7
CRC/MRC/BIB
Alarms for the elderly
6803/code/assembler
Robots for ESA - I invented the Arduino!
Accordion experiments

6. Digital Education Brighton DEB
Not Digital / Not Education / Not Brighton
How it came about
Not a talking shop
What it does
● Projects
● TeachMeets
● Links

7. Sausage Input: A tale of 2 studies
Informatics Sussex Uni
SMLC / Blatch / Network / DigiCrafters
SMLC / West Hove / Robots
why SMLC?
Un-schooling / educational hacking

8. Computing Curriculum - 2014

9. Your mission is ...

10. Invisible Buildings
What you learn (cross-curricular) :
● Archaeology / History / Using a tablet / Using
instruments / Finding stuff out, maps
What is:
● GPS / Haversine / trigonometry / gaming

11. BadgeLaureate

12. 5 Stages of Learning

13. Tablets rush in ...
It’s about recording your work - video, audio,
powerpoint, photos, blogging, social media
Features of tablet - video / web / audio / gps /
apps
Creating personal portfolios
The tablet is dead, long live the …?

14. Thank you and ...
… questions?
Richard Vahrman
LocoMatrix
info@locomatrix.com
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