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New project funded by .SE - The Swedish Internet Infrastructure Foundation

12 of June, 2010 By: Richard Guilfoyle

Together with AV-Media Kronoberg and the Gapminder foundation, CeLeKT has been granted a new project by The Swedish Internet Infrastructure Foundation. We want to provide teachers and students with web interactive tools and approaches to enhance the understanding of difficult social and economics phenomena using web visualizations related to very large statistical data. Interactive Web Visualizations for Better Understanding is the name of our project. We expect to develop several learning modules in order to explore new ways to use resources on the web. These modules will be implemented in close collaboration with stakeholders active in the educational sector in the Kronoberg region. The project will start in September 2010 and will end in 2011.

Video from the LETS GO trials in April

23 of May, 2010 By: Marcelo Milrad

During a period of 3 weeks in April, 54 students from Kronoberg skolan in Vaxjo have been actively involved in the LETS GO trials investigating different aspects of water quality. Activities consisted of mobile open inquiry-based tasks including; problem solving, exploration, field data collection, visualization and discussion in the classroom. The video clip below gives a good description of some of these activities and the tools the students used during these pilots.

Let's Go Water Quality trial from CeLeKT on Vimeo.

Best PhD Student Paper Award Given to Bahtijar Vogel at the 6th IEEE WMUTE Conference in Taiwan

17 of April, 2010 By: Marcelo Milrad

Bahtijar Vogel, PhD student at CeLeKT, has presented a long paper at the 6th IEEE International Conference WMUTE 2010 that took place on April 12th-16th in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Bato´s contribution (see reference below) has won the best PhD student paper award. Congratulations to Bato for this excellent achievement! Vogel, B., Spikol, D., Kurti, A, & Milrad, M. (2010). Integrating Mobile, Web and Sensory Technologies to Support Inquiry-Based Science Learning. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education WMUTE 2010 held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, April 12-16th, 2010.
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We at CeLeKT are very proud for getting for the 3rd time in less than one year the "best paper award" at an international conference. In July last year, PhD student Martin Svensson got the best paper award at the 9th IEEE ICALT 2009 Conference and Anna Wingkvist received the best PhD student paper award at mLearn 2009 that took place in Orlando, USA in October last year.

Broad CeLeKT presence at IEEE WMUTE 2010 in Taiwan

14 of April, 2010 By: Richard Guilfoyle

Gil, Pettersson, Svensson, Vogel, and Spikol are presenting five papers at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The team has two long papers and three short papers in the conference. The conference gives the chance for the team to share the research results from the Lets Go! and GeM project on an international level. Additionally, we are meeting up with colleagues from Lets GO! and discussing new research opportunities on a global scale. Keynote presentations from Sherry Tsi, Pierre Dillenborg, Gwo-Jen Hwang, and other renowned researchers. Additionally, the participation at WMUTE 2010 gives the team good insights about different research efforts happening around the globe.
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Marcelo Milrad visits the University of Tokuhsima in Japan

18 of March, 2010 By: Richard Guilfoyle

Professor Milrad is now visiting the University of Tokuhsima (Tok-U) in Japan as part of a fellowship award he recieved from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to conduct research in Japan. Professor Milrad is working together with Professors Yoneo Yano and Hiroaki Ogata at the Dept. of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering at Tok-U. One of the purposes of this visit is to strength the existing relations between CeLeKT and Professor Ogata´s research group, as well as to explore new venues of research collaboration between these two groups in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning.
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Användning av Mobilt lärande och spel i skolan idag

11 of March, 2010 By: Daniel Spikol

On March 10 together with Medioteket, Stockholm, Lennart Axelsson, Katrin Lindwall, and Daniel Spikol together with Åke Sjöberg from AVMedia Kronoberg organized a day long seminar about the future of mobile learning and games for school. Spikol provided an overview of CeLeKT's recent research effortsand hands on demos of mLearn2go and the Lets Go project. Fifty people from the different national organizations that provide educational material and AV equipment to the schools systems participated. In addition Karl-Petter Åkesson from SICS / Interactive Institute presented the Creator project from Mobile-Life. Plus special guests from TeliaSonera and KK-Foundation joined in for the day. !http://www.23hq.com/4937337/5434457_a402317079d52ef8e08feeb8364d705a_large.jpg!

Spikol at the London Knowledge Lab

18 of February, 2010 By: Marcelo Milrad

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 11:00am - 12:30pm Spikol presents: A Design Toolkit for Emerging Learning Landscapes Supported by Ubiquitous Computing in Large Seminar Room at the London Knowledge Lab. Sign up if you are nearby London and for more info "see":http://bit.ly/aUmo0m

Workshop Proposal Accepted for ICLS 2010 in Chicago, USA

02 of February, 2010 By: Richard Guilfoyle

Three perspectives on technology support in inquiry learning: Personal inquiry, mobile collaboratories and emerging learning objects is the name of the workshop proposal accepted for The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2010 that will take place in Chicago later this summer. The objective of the workshop is to discuss which kind of designs can be implemented to support inquiry learning using modeling tools, mobile devices and inquiry management tools that have been developed by the workshop organizers. The organizing team of this workshop brings together expertise related to the topics above from; Stanford University in the USA, the University of Nottingham in England, the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, the University of Twente in Holland and Linnaeus University in Sweden. More detailed information about the workshop can be found at the URL below:

http://www.isls.org/icls2010/conf_preconf.html#workshop2

The Science Center to GO: A New EU Funded Project Exploring the Use of Mobile Augmented Reality in Science Education

20 of January, 2010 By: Marcelo Milrad

Science Centers (SC) offer challenging exhibits that enable their visitors to experience hands-on science by actively manipulating the experiments, thus delivering natural ways of active playful learning. Advanced visualization technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) are often used to enrich the experience by displaying computer generated objects that can help to illustrate hidden phenomena. The Science Center to GO (SCeTGo) project brings together experts in science education, computer science and pedagogical evaluators in order to explore novel ways to use mobile AR to support science education. The consortium consists of partners from Germany, Finland, Greece, United Kingdom, Sweden and Romania. This two years project (with start in January 2010) is supported by the EU Life Long Learning program. The overall objectives of the SCeTGo are: a) develop a series of portable exhibits that will illustrate various physical phenomena enabling learners to visualize the invisible through mobile AR technology b) develop a pedagogical framework that attempts to blend informal and formal learning and to situate learning in real- world contexts c) develop advanced pedagogical scenarios that are shaped around a mission guided by a general scientific question d) to pilot, validate and demonstrate the SCeTGo approach in formal & informal educational environments e) facilitate lifelong learning and to improve quality of learning The SCeTGo approach aims at bringing comprehensive and meaningful learning experiences out of the SC into a school’s classroom and/or everyone’s home by. Its portable exhibits - by “fitting into a pocket” and operating with ordinary hardware – will enable learners to experiment whenever and wherever they please. By doing so, the consortium will make full use of the powerful capabilities offered by tailor-made exhibits combined with mobile AR.

Mulle: Math edUcation and pLayful LEarning

27 of November, 2009 By: Oskar Pettersson

As a part of our ongoing efforts in facilitating teaching and learning in mathematics, another activity has been conducted under the name of Mulle. This new initiative is carried out in collaboration with research colleagues from K2 Stockholm University who also where the hosts of this joint effort. The students participating in this project came from “Rösjöskolan”, a local middle-school in Stockholm.
The activity shared some common features and the technological platform used in previous efforts in the Geometry Mobile (GeM) project. However, there are some modifications that allow students to perform new measurements and calculations in the field. The students were encouraged to utilize both real world tools and digital mobile tools like GPS and a set of applications developed by CeLeKT to solve the different problems presented to them. The flow of the activity was also constructed to further involve all the participating students in the activity by further delegating responsibilities and sharing tasks between the members of the groups working in the field. The image below illustrates some of the activities carried out by children.