This document outlines an agenda for a session discussing smart cities and personal learning environments. The session will include short presentations and discussions on using mobile technology for creativity. Participants will use a Google Doc to crowdsource ideas about future learning environments in cities and create 15-second videos to share visions using Instagram with a conference hashtag. The document promotes views of smart cities empowering citizens and seeing the entire city as a learning environment through connection, creation, collaboration and crowdsourcing using mobile devices.

1. Smart Cities and Personal
Learning Environments
Learning and Diversity in Cities of
the Future

2. Collaborative ‘unkeynote’
Helen Keegan @heloukee
Max Schleser @MaxMobile
Dan Wagner @e_merging
and YOU!

3. This session
• 09:30-09:35 – Chat with Ilona Buchem
• 09:35-09:45 – Helen intro/show vids (slide 5)
• 09:45-09:50 – Max (24F24H)
• 09:50-09:55 – Max Q’s/discussion
• 09:55-10:00 – Dan (ELVSS)
• 10:00-10:05 – Dan Q’s/discussion
• 10:10-10:20 – Mobile Creativity
• 10:20-10:30 – reconvene, view outputs, finish

4. What do you think our
learning environments will
look like in the cities of the
future? What will we use
them for?
Google Doc here http://bit.ly/11B92HM let’s share/crowdsource our thoughts!

5. Building Smarter Cities for a Smarter Planet
“IBM can help build a
sustainable and
smarter city by using
smart grids to improve
healthcare systems,
education systems,
energy and utilities,
transportation, public
safety and economic
development”
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Vx0wEUA6bLM

6. 20 Smart City Technologies for 2013 and Beyond
h#p://freshome.com/2013/05/01/20-­‐smart-­‐city-­‐technologies-­‐for-­‐2013-­‐and-­‐beyond/

7. “The trouble with paternalists is that
they want to make impossibly
profound changes, and they choose
impossibly superficial means for
doing so.” (Jacobs, 2000)

8. Grassroots/citizen-led initiatives
DAVE MEE of Manchester Madlab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn8avhm9e9o

9. UK Riots 2011

10. Smart Cities?
Smart CITIZENS

11. “If you search on a combination of ‘Smart’,
‘Cities’ and ‘Community’ there are plenty of
examples of the term ‘Smart City’ being used
to promote different cities but far less of it
being used to acknowledge proactive
activities by or with real people.”
Dave Carter – Head of MDDA
http://www.manchesterdda.com/2011/03/09/smart-cities-the-new-original-
modern-or-the-techno-empire-strikes-back/

12. Dan Hill - Manifesto
“The city is its people. We don’t make cities in
order to make buildings and infrastructure. We
make cities in order to come together, to create
wealth, culture, more people… Enter the smart
citizens. … Despite the heavy, infrastructure-led
visions of the systems integrators and IT
corporations, the most interesting and
productive use of contemporary technology in
the city is here, literally in the hands of citizens.”
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/02/on-the-smart-city-a-call-for-smart-citizens-
instead.html#more

13. The whole city as a
learning environment

14. • Connecting
• Creating
• Collaborating
• Crowdsourcing
MOBILE

15. Max Schleser
24 Frames 24 Hours

16. Dan Wagner
Entertainment Labs for the Very Small Screen

17. Let’s Create!
What do you think our learning environments
will look like in the cities of the future? What
will we use them for?
Create a 15 second video using Instagram
(could be a talking head, could be something
more abstract) – upload with the following
hashtag: #PLEconf13film

18. Please email your videos to:
helerama@googlemail.com
LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN PEOPLE!
#pleconf = Active Citizens