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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.

New book chapter by Daniel Spikol

07 of November, 2009 By: Marcelo Milrad

Daniel Spikol has a new publication that has been published in a book called "Researching Mobile Learning Frameworks: Tools and Research Designs". Spikol´s book chapter "Exploring Novel Learning Practices through Co-Designing Mobile Games" describes methodological and design aspects of mobile games to support learning in informal and formal settings. The book has been edited by scholars from the UK and published by the Peter Lang Publishing group. More information about the book can be found at the URL below:
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=11832&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1

Best PhD Student Paper Award Given to Anna Wingkvist at mLearn 2009 Conference in the USA

07 of November, 2009 By: Marcelo Milrad

Anna Wingkvist presented a long paper at mLearn 2009 that took place in the last week of October. Anna´s contribution (see reference below) has won the best PhD student paper award. Wingkvist, A., & Ericsson, M. (2009). Current Research Practices in Mobile Learning: A Survey. Proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2009) held on October 26-30, 2009 in Orlando, USA. Moreover, this paper has been invited for publication at the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL). Congratulations to Anna for this excellent achievement. !http://w3.msi.vxu.se/~mmilrad/CeLeKT/Anna_09.jpg!

CeLeKT and seven other Nordic research groups receive a 3 years grant from Nordforsk

11 of September, 2009 By: Marcelo Milrad

The Learning Ecosystems and Activities of the Future (LEAF) application has been granted 3 years funding from Nordforsk, as part of their Researcher Networks 2009 program. LEAF is a research initiative that brings together eight research groups from four Nordic countries(Sweden Finland, Norway and Denmark). These different groups encompass an area of scientific research related to the interdisciplinary field of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) with special emphasis on two disciplines, namely Learning Sciences and Human Computer Interaction.
The overall aims of the LEAF initiative are to establish a solid scientific ground in order to consolidate research and training efforts in the field of TEL through the creation of a Nordic research network of senior scientists, young researchers and PhD students. The objective of LEAF is thus to develop and implement a common Nordic strategy for supporting new initiatives that can promote synergy in research, research training and development in the field of TEL across the Nordic countries. The LEAF initiative also aims at reinforcing Nordic research in the field of TEL in relation to the research objectives expressed by the European community in this specific domain area. NordForsk is a Nordic research board with responsibility for cooperation on research and researcher training in the Nordic region.

Marcelo Milrad receives the prestigious Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Senior Fellowship Award to visit Japan

03 of September, 2009 By: Richard Guilfoyle

Professor Milrad has been awarded a fellowship under the "FY2009 JSPS Invitation Fellowship Program for Research in Japan" to conduct research in Japan during the spring 2010 with Professors Yoneo Yano and Hiroaki Ogata from the University of Tokushima. Marcelo Milrad was earlier in the Spring nominated by Vinnova (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems) as one of the Swedish candidates for receiving this fellowship.

Skattjakt at O-Ringen 2009

23 of July, 2009 By: Daniel Spikol

On July 22 together with "Mapping Växjö":http://www.mappingvaxjo.se we created a mobile orienteering skattjakt with a qualification round in the forest and the final competition in the center of Eksjö. Over 75 youth participated in 23 teams and 8 teams made it to the final. Together with the Mapping people and VXU we exhibited at the conference hall and received strong interest in the "mLearn2go":http://blog.mlearn2go.com platform. !http://www.celekt.nu/galleries/news/oringen2009sm.jpg!