The diminishing relevance of space
The value of place?
What does place give?
(Cannatella)
Defining mobile learning
Educational implications of continual connectivity
Information overlays
Three Levels
Efficiency
Enhancement
Transformation
HEFCE
The potential and the actual
iPod/mp3
PDA
Notebook
Netbook
ebook
Smart phone
http://bit.ly/mobsymp 
Learning will move more and more outside
of the classroom and into the learner’s
environments, both real and virtual, thus
becoming more situated, personal,
collaborative and lifelong. The challenge
will be to discover how to use mobile
technologies to transform learning into
a seamless part of daily life to the point
where it is not recognised as learning at all.
http://bit.ly/mobFL
Affordances=changed pedagogy?
"Connectivity...continual information exchange"
Future directions
Lattitude
Integration with search and profile
Mobiles as a draw to deeper digital involvement 
Pew Internet
3.3 billion mobile phones
Informa
Gartner
Changing/becoming
Social impact of connectivity?
"Different social cohesion"
Stats Canada
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/56f0004m/2008016/tbl-eng.htm
forrester research
http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,53618,00.html
"Mobile learning through the use of wireless mobile technology allows anyone
to access information and learning materials from anywhere and at anytime.
As a result, learners have control of when they want to learn and from which
location they want to learn."
http://www.aupress.ca/books/120155/ebook/99Z_Mohamed_Ally_2009-MobileLearning.pdf
Mobile Learning Symposium
University of Manitoba
May 1, 2009
George Siemens
Newsletter: www.elearnspace.org

gsiemens@elearnspace.org


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Oq-9enE-k
Extending ourselves
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/02/ted-digital-six/