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Think about all the ways technology is changing our lives; e.g. mobile phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, digital TV, Sky Plus and near universal internet access. How are we in education making use of these technologies to enhance or even transform learning and teaching? How are we engaging today’s students with the technology that they carry in their pockets and use at home? Schools have already invested significantly in technology and innovators have found ways to use that technology to make learning more personalised, exciting, rewarding, enjoyable - and it shows in their results! As leading educators, we need to make sure that every-one understands the positive impact that these new technologies can have on education and how it can help learners fulfill their potential.

The bMobLe “Next Generation Learning” Conference 2010 aims to address these issues by sharing best practice and suggesting ways that these technologies can appropriately be integrated into the classroom. The second annual bMobLe Conference will take place on Thursday 20th May 2010 and is being held at the Abundant Life Centre in Bradford. This regional mobile learning conference is aimed at teachers, SMTs and consultants - both LA and independent.

We are delighted to announce that Tim Rylands will be delivering our keynote presentation. Tim, a Primary school teacher for over 20 years has always maintained that in order to gain experience you need to do it. In order to do it you need to want to do it!

“Children need to be inspired if they are going to pick
ideas up and start to juggle with them.”

Tim has been described as an “extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of technology, who has an excellent rapport with his pupils. The approaches he uses are innovative and imaginative, in particular his use of games software.” (Becta) Tim has received a vast amount of press coverage from around the world for his original use of ICT and has gained most notable recognition for using the games in the Myst series to inspire children’s creative confidence in many areas of the curriculum including creative writing, speaking and listening, music and art.

Carl Faulkner (headteacher) and some inspirational pupils from Normanby Primary School, Middlesborough (winners of the Primary Innovation award at Handheld Learning 2009) will be presenting after lunch. They will be demonstrating how they teach and learn using mobile technologies across the curriculum. Conference delegates will also have the opportunity to ask pupils back at school in Middlesborough live questions throughout the presentation.

The other breakout sessions are listed here

The day will conclude with a prize draw and the opportunity to bag yourself a Nintendo Wii, a Nintendo DSi or an iPod Touch.

If you are an EB 5 Star Curriculum ICT support subscriber school, access to the conference is free for 2 delegates. The cost for the conference is £150.