We are conducting several projects with teachers using technologies such as laptop computers, PDAs and mobile phones.

The purpose of the research is to investigate and disseminate

• the creative uses of these devices
• emerging teaching and learning methods
• professional development needs
• assessment for learning in new ways
• teachers’ and students’ roles

Mobiles in secondary schools (funded by Becta)

Personal and collaborative blogging using mobile devices (funded by Nokia Global Universities Foundation)

Peggy Shao and Elizabeth Hartnell-Young are using set of Nokia N80 mobile phones with university and school students to explore individual and group blogs and narratives created using mobile phones.

elizabeth.hartnell-young@nottingham.ac.uk

Related Papers

Hartnell-Young, E. & Simner, J.  (2007). Beyond school control: Year 6 students appropriate mobile technologies as curriculum tools. ALT-C. Nottingham, September.

Hartnell-Young, E., & Vetere, F. (2006). My grandfather is dead: narratives of culture and curriculum. mLearn conference, Banff, Canada. October.

Hartnell-Young, E. (2006). Teachers’ Roles and Professional Learning in Communities of Practice supported by Technology in Schools. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. 14, 3. pp. 461-480. http://go.editlib.org/j/JTATE/v/14/n/3

Hartnell-Young, E., & Vetere, F. (2005). Lifeblog: a new concept in mobile learning? IEEE Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education. Tokushima, Japan, November.

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