Presentation at Mobile learning: Crossing boundaries in convergent environments Conference in Bremen in March 2011

1. Near and Far Contemplating (NFC) the future trends in Mobile and what’s happening right here right now

2. STATE OF FLUX IS THE NEW NORMAL GET OVER IT

3. Mobile Learning or Learner Mobility 1 :1 computing doesn't mean Solo learning Adults & children learn better in groups where as OLPC project premised on solo learning Content is important but collaboration is King Location and context are trends to watch The role of formal informal (learning)

6. We live in extraordinary times cue work by Nicholas Hughes using robosapiens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0OGa1SFTUQ&feature=player_embedded Nics blog on the project its nearly five years ago http://robosapienrules.blogspot.com

7. Mobile handset growth worldwide

8. International Telecommunications Union (ITU) of 385 million users in 2000. ITU estimates two billion people online by end 2010 We've gone from state when a high percentage of sub Saharan Africa population would die never having made a phone call to the reverse

9. International Telecommunications Union (ITU) of 385 million users in 2000. ITU estimates two billion people online by end 2010 We've gone from state when a high percentage of sub Saharan Africa population would die never having made a phone call to the reverse We live in extraordinary times

11. Digital Cameras just Cameras Phone Cameras just *********

13. Augmented reality = enhanced learning layar.com wikitude.org

14. http:// wwwbhfo.org/news/press-releases/contact-lens-display-system-2.html

15. And enhanced campus navigation Tilburg University http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/internet/ar.html

16. Exeter University UK

17. E books and E book reader format wars

18. Ipad is just the start !

19. The book will re invent itself or at least the content will Reinventing the book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISxgVmRnFq8

20. I tunes U first of many mobile platforms adapted for education Platform wars

23. Near Field communication Near Field Communications is a wireless technology that passes data between NFC enabled devices, typically within a few centimetres of each other. It is present in some mobile phones, used on the London transport system

25. NFC explained Youtube clip explaining NFC commercial uses http://youtu.be/Bp82H3koH3Q

26. PICO projection Think the smallest mobile phone able to project a image Don't believe me ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKCWBC88shM video shot in London cafe two years ago

27. The technology connectivity inverted pyramid Actually multiple pyramids

28. http://www.nowandnext.com/PDF/trends_and_technology_timeline_2010.pdf