A short introduction to MELSIG, the special focus on Smart Devices for Learning, the book projects, Challenge and opportunity cards, and thanks to MMU.
This PowerPoint helps students to consider the concept of infinity.
Welcome to MELSIG at MMU
1. Manchester Metropolitan University
14 April 2014
#MELSIGMMU
@melsiguk
Smart Devices for
Learning #3
Andrew Middleton
Sheffield Hallam University
Chair of MELSIG http://melsig.shu.ac.uk/
2. Welcome to the 20th
event
Media-Enhanced Learning
Special Interest Group
• Digital and social media
• Together
• Sharing practice
• Generating ideas
• Asking questions
• Ideas and risky thinking
• Innovation and change
3. Smart Devices for Learning
•Connectivity – always on
•Personal - not institutional
•Authentic and ubiquitous –
ever-present like 'intelligent clothing'
•Changing the learning context and
the learning environment
•How?
•Today: diverse experience and
interests
•Online resource and book
(cc) ) by sa Saad Faruque
4. Digital Voices
• Representing the MELSIG ethos
• How the recorded voices of
teachers, students, employers,
professionals and many others
can change and enhance
learning
• Essays, case studies and 50
ideas
• 24 authors from UK post-
compulsory education
• Now free to download
5. Coming up…
•Social Media for Learning event –
Liverpool John Moores 3rd
June
•Creative Capture and Flipped
Classroom event
•Media Enhanced Feedback event #2
•#BYOD4L – take 2 (June 2014)
•Online resource
•New book call – “Smart Learning”
(cc) by nc Incessant Flux
6. About today
• Housekeeping
• Full house
• Challenges, opportunities, ideas
• Your stories and ideas
• Morning – sessions together
• Then decide which parallel
workshops
• Plenary – what we have learnt
SIG not conference i.e.
together we know stuff – good model to reveal the potential of new and emerging pedagogy
People – diverse perspectives, also different experience and knowledge of ped and tech and media