Handheld Learning 2009

Adam Blackwood is the e-Learning Adviser (Teaching & Learning) for the JISC RSC South East. He is responsible for helping to promote and develop all aspects of Information Learning Technology and Staff Development for over 80 educational institutions across the South East region. He has worked with computing technology from before his first degrees in Biological Sciences, and later through further post-graduate studies at Staffordshire Polytechnic and the University College London.

Since then, Adam has held various lecturing and management posts in Further Education and, prior to joining the JISC, was concerned with promoting and developing e-learning provision for local small-to-medium businesses. Adam is a familiar face amongst providers in the South East region and is renowned for his keen passion for the effective use of technology within education and the support he provides through advice and training. Adam has become one of the leading advisers in the South East on the uses and applications of Mobile Internet Access Devices to support and widen participation for learning.
http://www.rsc-southeast.ac.uk/

Aidan was instrumental in driving Steljes pioneering work in mobile learning leading to the development of \' tibboh\', a new mobile internet service for children and families. Working with the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), tibboh has developed its own an age related internet classification scheme to filter internet content. A member of the Becta funded \'expert\' group for e-safety and Web 2.0 projects, Aidan works with parliamentarians, policy advisors, academics and educational experts to inform debate on the most appropriate ways to realise the full potential of technology in education.

Alexandra was born in Montreal, Canada, but grew up mostly in Europe and the Middle East. After completing a Bachelor's in Industrial Design at the Universite de Montreal, she moved to Italy to complete a Master's degree in Interaction Design at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.

She worked in Europe and was involved in projects for clients such as Nokia, Motorola, Droog design, Thinglink, Jaiku, Blast Radius, fo.am and Blyk bringing creative and strategic leadership to multi-disciplinary teams before relocating to London to set up the design consultancy Tinker.it! with the co-founder of the Arduino platform Massimo Banzi. Tinker.it! has built interactive products and spaces for the likes of Artemide, Whirlpool, National Geographic Store, Arup and Accenture.

In the past years she has been an active speaker on issues surrounding interaction design and how design will evolve out of it's current top down state into a de-centralised model of empowerment and DIY problem-solving with the help of new technologies.

http://www.tinker.it/
http://tinker.it/now/

Andrew Rhodes is an ICT Consultant working at Central Enfield City Learning Centre (CLC). He is passionate about the role ICT can play in transforming learning opportunities for students and is a keen advocate of the creative and purposeful use of technology in the classroom. Prior to working at the CLC, Andrew was a science teacher in a variety of comprehensive schools in London and Hertfordshire for over ten years. As an Apple Distinguished Educator, Andrew has worked with teachers and students from a whole variety of schools and learning establishments across the country, showing them how to make best use of creative technologies and mobile learning devices in the curriculum. A self confessed lover of technologies, but subscriber to the view that in education it’s not about the technology but about how it is used in the classroom, Andrew has a broad interest base from music technology, video and digital image, to games based learning, games development and pretty much everything inbetween! (but always with a focus on how technology can be used in the classroom/curriculum)
Andrew is also currently studying for an MA in Education at Middlesex University with a particular focus on the role games can play in learning.

Andy is expert on mobile technology its use and application in the classroom.He regularly delivers hands on demos and workshops on advances in mobile technology including mobile phones, SONY PSP, i-Pod and Nintendo DS. His sessions also cover how to maxmise the use of this emerging technology and how to find and create compelling content.

Andy Pulman currently works for the School of Health and Social Care (HSC) at Bournemouth University in the UK, where he is involved in the management and creation of web resources and e-learning developments and initiatives. His research interests concern exploring educational solutions around web 2.0, gaming experiences, personal narratives, and simulation.

Anna is a Primary Depute Head Teacher who has been seconded to lead the implementation of Glow, the Scottish Schools Digital Intranet in Aberdeenshire Council, Scotland. In her current role she develops and supports the creative and innovative use of technologies, and in particular games based learning and teaching approaches. She has spoken of her experience in leading games based learning projects such as Nintendogs in the early years, at National and International events.

Dr. Arturo Serrano-Santoyo earned his Doctor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City in 1980. In 1981 he received the ALCATEL Annual Telecommunications Award for his contributions to rural satellite communications in Mexico, and in 1986 was honored with the ERICSSON Telecommunications Award. Dr. Serrano-Santoyo is a member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering and author of the books Telecommunications in Latin America and The Digital Divide: Myths and Realities. He is currently a researcher at the Institute for Research and Development in Education (IIDE) at the Autonomous University of Baja California in Ensenada, Mexico.

Brian McLaren was recently appointed by LTS as a Consolarium Development Officer with the remit to explore the place of computer games as learning tools in the classroom. His teaching career in the Primary school began after graduation in 1993 from Northern College of Education (Dundee) . He has worked in a number of schools and has taught in early years, middle and upper stages. For the last 10 years he has worked as the Depute Head of Clackmannan PS.

Catherine Geeroms is researcher and consultant in Media Literacy. She is interesting about the social appropriation of new media by young people. After a degree in Information and Communication at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL - Belgium), she collaborated as assistant researcher to the coordination of the European Project Mediappro (www.mediappro.org). She was also the coordinator of a Belgian non-profit association which works with young people to media literacy projects (ACMJ). Since September 2007, she coordinates “Games and Education” projects at the ISFE.

Chris Nash has been involved in education for over 20 years as a classroom practitioner, local authority advisor, senior education consultant for Steljes Ltd and currently works as a freelance consultant and lectures in ICT and Teaching and Learning at Roehampton University.

Chris has been involved in pioneering teaching and learning through handheld devices since 2002 and has a passion for innovating with new technologies along with a deep pedagogical understanding of how these technologies can have a profound impact on the way we teach and learn.

Having worked as an English Language teacher in France, Malaysia and the Middle East, I was involved in the introduction of VLEs in my institution and became fascinated by the communicative potential of new technologies. On my return to the UK in 2003 I worked on a range of widening participation projects using technology and, in particular, social networking tools. In January 2009, I joined the Open University as a lecturer on the English in Action project, incorporating mobile technologies as part of a blended approach to teacher training in secondary and primary schools in Bangladesh.

Dan’s main research interests are in mobile learning; the role of the teacher in technology-rich learning environments; values-driven assessment, and processes of educational change and transformation. He is currently leading ‘Public and Stakeholder Engagement’ within the Beyond Current Horizons programme that aims to engage with leading stakeholders (Government agencies and departments, industry etc) as well educational communities and the wider public. He is part of the team that organises and runs the Innovations Workshops that bring together stakeholders from various backgrounds to investigate future learning possibilities with digital technologies. Prior to joining Futurelab, Dan taught at a primary school in Bristol, where he used a variety of ICT tools to develop pupils' interest in language.

Dave Green is a journalist with 20 years' experience of covering computer and video games, for publications as varied as Wired magazine, Amiga Power and The Guardian Guide. Until recently he edited Channel 4's casual gaming website www.channel4.com/games, and was a regular technology correspondent for BBC Radio 1, 6Music and Radio 5 Live. He has organised several grassroots technology conferences in London (from 2002's Extreme Computing to Open Tech 2005) and is always on the lookout for more events to add to the London Games Fringe's year-round diary at www.londongamesfringe.com.

David Peth is a Multimedia Producer at WGBH in Boston, PBS' single largest producer of content for television and the Web. At WGBH David has managed the design and development of interactive content for children's productions including Between the Lions, Martha Speaks, Curious George, and Design Squad, and is currently leading the production of new games for handheld devices. David holds a B.A. in Developmental Psychology and Interactive Media, and a B.F.A in Photography, both from Cornell University, as well as a M.Ed. in Technology in Education from Harvard University.

Raised by a junkie in the jazz world, expelled from school, gang member for 7 years, mentored by Bob Marley and Dizzy Gillespie, returned to education achieving DPhil in educational applications and media of mythology. Ex teacher, ex lecturer and No.1 reggae artist. I work with schools and young offenders as a freelance consultant and storyteller helping them manage and explore issues of learning culture and youth culture. Using traditional models and principles I construct new mythological frameworks suited to modern urban and global contexts and digital technologies. Web: abracadia.com

Award-winning David Braben and his Cambridge based studio, Frontier Developments Ltd. is recognised worldwide as one of the leading innovators in videogame development technology and design. Frontier's most recent title 'LostWinds' released exclusively on Nintendo® WiiWare scooped many awards and received worldwide critical acclaim. The studio's rollercoaster based 'Thrillville', published by LucasArts in North America, was the best-selling original children's/family title in North America in 2006. Frontier's work on The Outsider promises to deliver yet another ground-breaking title and a number of gameplay firsts. David is directing the development of several titles which all utilise the studio's sophisticated in-house toolchain. David is particularly well-known for co-writing the seminal game Elite, the first true 3D game which celebrates it's 25th anniversary in September 2009.
www.frontier.co.uk

Dr. David Cavallo is the Chief Learning Architect at One Laptop per Child (OLPC). He also was OLPC’s coordinator for the Latin American and Caribbean region. As Chief Learning Architect Cavallo is responsible for helping countries develop a vision, local teams, and an operational framework to create a large-scale, high-impact change in the learning environment of their countries; for the development of materials to support learning projects; for coordinating efforts to instantiate initial sites of 1-to-1 learning with connected laptops; for coordination of a new international network of 1-to-1 educators; for conception and development of all electronic support materials; and creating and writing the philosophical basis for the learning effort.

Prior to taking a leave from MIT to join OLPC, Cavallo was a Research Scientist, Principal Investigator and co-director of the Future of Learning Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. His work focuses on human learning, designing technology to facilitate learning, and large-scale reform of educational systems. He designs, implements and helps deploy new technologies for learning through design, expression, and construction. Through his work on “models of growth,” he has focused on comprehensive approaches to large-scale change, including content development, educational methodology, teacher development and organizational change. His recent project work has focused on educational reform in urban areas in the United States, as well as in Brasil, Costa Rica, and other Latin American countries.

Prior to MIT, Cavallo led the design and implementation of medical informatics as part of a reform of health care delivery and management at the Harvard University Health Services. He was also the founder of the Advanced Technology group for Digital's Latin American and Caribbean Region. Dr. Cavallo holds a Ph.D and Master of Science degree from the MIT Media Laboratory where Prof. Seymour Papert was his advisor, and did his undergraduate work in Computer Science at Rutgers University. He has published widely on these issues, and has served as an advisor to governments and international agencies national efforts of educational change catalyzed by technology.

Dr David Davies is Reader in Medical Education at Warwick and a pioneer of elearning in medical education. Warwick is ranked in the top 10 of UK universities.

David Wray taught in primary schools for 10 years and is currently Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Warwick. He has published over 30 books on aspects of literacy teaching and is best known for his work on developing teaching strategies to help pupils access the curriculum through literacy. This has resulted in such innovations as the Extending Interactions with Texts (EXIT) model to guide the teaching of reading to learn, and writing frames to help with the writing of factual text types. His work has been made an integral part of the National Literacy Strategy at both primary and secondary levels. He has acted as consultant to a number of electronic learning projects for groups such as Dorling Kindersley and the Guardian Newspaper. He also jointly wrote the Easiteach Literacy content pack for Research Machines.

I am the Senior Teacher/ICT Co-ordinator at Oakdale Junior School in the London Borough of Redbridge. I have been using the Nintendo DS in the school for the last 18 months and incorporate the use of them acroos the Junior school (350 pupils) and across the curriculum. We have used Brain Training, Professor Layton and Pictochat to enable and enhance the curriculum for all.From September the borough are also setting up a small games network where we will be exploring the use of the Wii with relation to Literacy. I will be showing examples of how we have used this hand held technology and other web based games to inspire and motivate learners and teachers.

Debbie Forster joined e-skills UK in February 2009 to advise on educational strategy and outreach across their range of programmes with schools, colleges and universities, ensuring their work meets both the needs of employers and educationalists. She is leading on e-skills UK’s partnership with the Open University on the DCSF ICT CPD programme.

Prior to joining e-skills UK Debbie was a headteacher and she has twenty years of experience from working in a range of single sex, co-educational, selective and comprehensive schools in the UK and the US. As a teacher, Debbie worked with e-skills UK, Microsoft, HTI and Toshiba on a range of projects including on steering groups for the IT Diploma and the award winning Computer Clubs for Girls (CC4G); bringing an educational perspective to SEEDA’s Women in IT conference and SSDA’s “Standards and Vocational Qualifications” conference; and providing feedback to Microsoft employees on their work in schools to promote the internet.

Her role on the CPD project team involves leading external liaison with employers and stakeholders to ensure the programme brings the best of industry together with cutting edge practice in education.

Artist - "Derrick is one of the most important artists of the century" - Guy Hilton, Art Dealer
Broadcasting - "Derrick's role was really minister without portfolio, if there was a problem or particularly tricky project" - James Jegede, Chairman definition broadcast

2007 - Began research into Drawing messaging, sending drawings between phones instead of txt messages.
2008 - Invited to become a Champion on Forum Nokia
2009 - Focusing on education. I will be putting some hand held touch screen devices into Prudhoe Community High Schools library [LRC] for children to loan out just like they would have traditionally loaned a book. The drawings that they produce on the devices will be displayed on a tv monitor, in the library. Initially the students will be asked to draw images about their favorite books, Internet sites or anything within the Library. In another school the kids will hopefully be drawing and mms'ing the drawings to another country, then translating the accompanying txt online.

Dirk is responsible for the communications and marketing activities around PEGI (Pan European Game Information), the age rating system that helps parents make informed decisions about the type of games their children play. He leads various projects aimed at raising awareness about PEGI and games among different audiences (government, consumer, education, business).

One of the current communication projects concerns Games In Schools, a recently completed research project about game-based learning in cooperation with European Schoolnet. By disseminating the results of this analytic study, ISFE hopes to share best practices on a wide scale and to increase the understanding of the way games can support or facilitate the learning process.

Dirk earned his degree in Germanic languages (Dutch-English) at the Catholic University of Brussel and the University of Antwerp. He has ten years working experience as a senior communications consultant for Porter Novelli, as an editor for The Associated Press in Amsterdam and as a copywriter for The Reader’s Digest.

Divya Viswanathan holds a professional Diploma in Communication Design (2000-2005). He has worked for the Future Group India (2006-2007) and is currently employed at Nokia India Pvt. Ltd. (2007 – current).

Domizio Baldini was born in Rosignano, Tuscany, Italy in 1948. He has been a teacher of Italian History and Geography in middle school (K12), a teacher of Italian in England for 6 years at St. Mary's girls school in Upminster, an ICT Tutor and coordinator for a school network in Tuscany, an ICT Tutor for INDIRE/ANSAS, the official teacher training agency in Italy, and an ICT Tutor for Digital Creativity, Apple Distinguished Educator, Coordinator Italy and Europe.

Donald was CEO (and one of the original founders) of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market. He is now a board member of Ufi (learndirect), Brighton Festival and Caspian Learning, and a school governor. Donald has produced over 40 papers, dozens of book reviews and many articles on e-learning, and has been involved in games, simulations, mobile learning and informal learning. He has also won many awards for the design and implementation of e-learning, including the "Outstanding Achievement in e-learning Award" at the World Open Learning Conference. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and a regular blogger: donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com.

Dr Naomi Norman is Director of Learning for Epic, one of the UK’s market leading e-learning companies, and an Honorary visiting lecturer at the University of Sussex.

With a focus on learning-led technology rather than technology-led learning, she works with colleagues to achieve the highest quality learning solutions for Epic’s multitude of clients across the private and public sectors. This includes breaking the boundaries for e-learning to provide innovative solutions such as that of training for the Army using the Nintendo DS gaming console.

Naomi has a D.Phil (PhD) from Oxford University in the use of visual media for teaching and learning mathematics. Prior to that, she received an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College, London and a BSc in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Kent. She has extensive consultancy and research experience in learning technologies, and over the years has successfully undertaken contracts in the field for the likes of Nationwide Building Society, Granada Media, Sesame Street, the BBC and the UK Government’s Department for Children, Schools and Families. She also spent two years as Director of Education for the UK’s largest science-specialist education software company.

Dr. John B. Stav is an Associate Prof. at Sør-Trøndelag University College, and received a PhD in physics (1994) from The Norwegian University for Sciences and Technology. He has coordinated many European R&D projects. They have targeted pedagogical use and development of new ICT and video solutions within continuing education, in-company based training, e-learning, and distance training solutions. He has published more than 80 papers, and he is currently leading 3 EU-funded R&D projects. This includes the pedagogical development of new student response services for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Phyllis oversees the entire operation of Words & Numbers, one of the most respected content services companies in the educational publishing space creating content for variety of discipline areas. She has been an invited speaker for numerous conferences including EdNet, SIIA, AEP, Connexions (Rice University), and published many articles about creating content for the new virtual environments. Her company has pioneered developing content for commercial virtual school programs, and lead initiatives in integrating mobile learning to support core instruction.

Gavin Cooney is founder and CEO of Learnosity, an award winning specialist e-learning solutions provider working with major public and private sector clients in Europe, Middle East, Australasia and the US.  Gavin worked closely with the Irish and Australian federal governments, to develop an innovative phone based platform used in the learning and assessment of spoken language skills, as well as a number of vocational applications. Prior to founding Learnosity, Gavin lectured Information Systems in University College Dublin.

George Saltsman is the Executive Director of the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning at Abilene Christian University, which follows almost a decade of service as ACU's Director of Educational Technology. As one of the leaders of ACU’s Connected Mobile learning initiative, George works closely with faculty and administrators who are deploying and researching mobile learning within higher education. Saltsman's education includes a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Organizational and Human Resource Development. With Kaye Shelton, he is co-author of An Administrators Guide to Online Education, which systematically identifies and discusses seven key issues that affect the practice of online education today: leadership and strategic planning, policy and operation, faculty, online student services, online student success, technology and the courseware management system, and marketing. Saltsman has presented widely on the integration of technology in higher education. He is a university instructor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication and an electronic publishing consultant

Gordon is the Director of IT and Learning technologies group for Apple Worldwide Education markets. His team works globally with education institutions, government agencies and International schools as they define new learning environments. Gordon brings more then 20 years experience in the technology industry to his position with prior position as the Executive VP of Application services for Clearforest - a provider of text based business intelligence solution that bridged the structured and unstructured data world, Chief Technology Officer for MichTel a 23 State internet service provider/telephone service provide (CLEC) and was the Sr. Manager of J. Walter Thompson Detroit's internet group which launched Ford Motor, Goodyear Tire and Rubber company plus many other intitial web presences on the internet. Gordon has a BBA from Eastern Michigan University.

A full member of the British Computer Society for 5 years, Graham Philips has pursued a career in web application development, focusing on collaborative open source software projects.

Graham joined the non-profit NGO Powerwatch as Technical Manager in 2004 to enhance IT business practice and develop bespoke scientific database management software. The role meshes closely with his mathematical background and expertise in data mining and analysis. It requires keeping on top of the hundreds of research papers into the potential biological and health endpoints associated with use of wireless technology and exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields.

Graham is a Trustee of the Radiation Research Trust and a member of the Department of Health's Stakeholder Advisory Group on ELF electromagnetic fields and health (SAGE).

Graham offers a different viewpoint into the possible implications of wireless technology, supported by a thorough understanding of many of the peer-reviewed papers in the published literature.

Helen is the Managing Director of UK online centres, responsible for ensuring the success and development of the UK online centres network. Helen has more than 20 years experience of working in the e-learning industry starting in 1985 in the private sector with The Times Network Systems, developing online education services for schools.

She has been at Ufi, the organisation behind learndirect and UK online centres, since 1999. The majority of this time was spent leading the operation of the learndirect learning network andlearndirect advice services. She also led the ippr and University of Sunderland 'University for Industry' pilot, following the publication of the ippr report which first suggested the concept and which was implemented following the Labour victory in May 1997.

Henk van Zeijts is Director of the Creative Learning Lab, the education department of the Dutch media lab Waag Society. Together with his team, he works on various themes that focus on the creative use of technology for education, like collaborative creation, location based gaming, playful learning, personal fabrication and media literacy.

The Creative Learning Lab does research on new, creative ways of technology enhanced learning, developes protoypes, gives trainings and workshops and is the initiator of the Platform for Education and the Creative Industry.

Henk has a background in Science, music and theatre. Over the last 12 years, he worked on new media and education. Since 2002 he works with Waag Society. He transformed the education program into the Creative Learning Lab, that started in January 2008.

www.creativelearninglab.org
www.waag.org

Henry is a multi-award winning social entrepreneur (Young Leader of the Year 2004, Enterprising Young Brit 2005 and HRH's Pioneer to the life of the nation 2005, Education Resource Award 2009). He is currently CEO of Gemin-i.org, a charity specialising in using innovation and IT to solve problems in the education in international development sectors. Gemin-i runs three successful social enterprises: Rafi.ki, the leading online schools community, which connects classrooms in 106 countries. Reflections a software based toolkit for teacher training, developed with the TDA and MMU-IoE and Webtools, a consultancy and software design business that builds high-end websites for government, the BBC, British Council and a series of charities. In 2006 Henry Launched The Sucata Run a fund-raising rally race for charities that races cars worth less than £250 from London to Lisbon in fancy dress. Last year it raised over £100,000 for good causes. The sister events Sumo Run and Sucata Split are launching in 2009.
Henry is also chair of MyBnk the award winning financial literacy and enterprise charity for young people.
In his spare time Henry works as a consultant to a number of other businesses, charities  and grant making trusts predominantly around business development and entrepreneurship.

As founding partner of Cimex in 1994, Ian has been involved with interactive media for over 15 years. Ian often speaks at industry events about engaging learning experiences and has worked on innovative projects delivered across a range of platforms for adult & young audiences: including VR training for Marks and Spencer’s, BAFTA award winning Homework High for Channel 4 and projects such as BBC Jam and Computer Clubs for Girls. Recently Ian has been involved in renewing a contract to deliver DirectGov Mobile and a project to investigate e-learning via mobile to practising social workers.

James Clay has been with Gloucestershire College since November 2006.

James is responsible for the VLE, the use of learning technologies, e-learning, the libraries, digital and online resources and the strategic direction of the college in relation to the use of learning technologies.

James’ current interests include researching learning on the handheld devices that learners have. How can we create learning activities which work on personal mobile devices. He also likes to experiment on how we use Web 2.0 to support learning.

James Clay previously was Director of the Western Colleges Consortium he was responsible for the management, strategic direction and development of e-learning using a shared MLE across the four partner FE Colleges of the WCC.

Before the WCC he worked for at-Bristol, a Millennium project within the Harbourside of Bristol - a job which involved delivering hands-on science education and designing educational websites on subjects as diverse as handheld learning experiences, Antiguan racer snakes, space science and the mummification process of the ancient Egyptians.

Prior to the above, James spent ten years in Further Education as a lecturer in Business & Economics, employing a variety of learning technologies.

http://elearningstuff.wordpress.com

I have many years’ experience using communication technologies to support student learning at the Open University (OU). I am a lead instructional designer and researcher working within a team responsible for providing online student and tutor support resources, for example study skills and careers advice. I am a graduate of the OU, have been an OU tutor for three technology courses, and spent ten years teaching IT skills to adult beginners. I bring this experience and understanding to my work in providing timely student support through the best medium. I have an MA in Online and Distance Education, a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Systems and Diploma in Management Studies, and am currently completing a Doctorate in Education. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Jason Bradbury is a TV presenter and children's author. His TV credits include literally hundreds of shows spanning a wide range of genre from light entertainment, to science and technology formats. The Big Breakfast, Top Gear GTI, ITV’s The Web Review Show and Five’s The Gadget Show are just a handful of successful series that Jason has fronted.
Jason is currently writing a trilogy of techno-thrillers published by Puffin (the first, Dot Robot was published in February 2009).

Stand Up Comic
Jason's roots lie in the stand-up comedy circuit where he started out in a double-act with David Walliams of Little Britain fame. Before they explored London’s stand-up clubs, Jason and David’s formed their own comedy club with fellow performers Myfanwy Moore (Producer of Little Britain) and a Simon Pegg.
Jason's  first ever TV show was a cable show called Tellywest where he worked alongside a young Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G/Borat)
In his fifteen year TV career Jason has chalked up a number of light-entertainment credits: Trouble TV (T Spot, Trouble @ Breakfast, Jason On Your Doorstop, Trouble Radio), Bravo TV (FHM Top 100 Girls, World's Most Amazing Videos, Mercenaries), Sky 1 (The Hit Mix co-presented with Gail Porter ), Channel 4 (Under The Moon), LWT (Live at The Capital Café alongside Dani Bahr), The Big Breakfast and many more.

Science & Technology
Jason is a gadget and technology maestro. His is well known as an ardent techno DIY’er. His most famous on-screen inventions include a working hoverboard and ‘The World’s First Phone Glove'.
Jason has also written extensively for technology publications including .Net Magazine, PC Format and The Guardian. He has judged the British Blog Awards and writes a very popular blog of his own at: www.jasonbradbury.com.
He has racked up a number of ‘soft science’ credits including the RTS award winning Gross! for Discovery Kids.

The Gadget King
Jason is best known as host of Five’s The Gadget Show. Jason has flown to the four corners of the globe to visit universities, laboratories and research and development departments to see the science and technology of the future. His crazy antics are legendary, as he is flung off bridges, thrown down mountains and sent underwater to test cutting edge technology in the most extreme conditions.

Corporate Events
Jason works regularly in the corporate sector, launching products and services for some of the world’s best-known companies, including Honda, B.T,Tescos and Vodafone.

Jennifer Groff is from Limerick, Pennsylvania, USA, where she received a bachelor's degree in Education from Millersville University while competing in varsity field hockey. Upon graduation, Jennifer taught elementary Instructional Support and gifted learners at the middle school level. In 2005, Jennifer completed her master's degree in Educational Technology from the University of Delaware, where she was named the Outstanding Master's Student in the School of Education. Subsequently she moved into educational research, serving as a research manager at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform

Jill Attewell leads the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Research Centre at the Learning and Skills Network (LSN). TEL centre research focuses on the use of ICTs to facilitate, enhance, support or improve access to teaching and learning, especially post-compulsory learning. Jill is also Programme Manager of the Mobile Learning Network (MoLeNET).

Jill’s experience includes 13 years in education, mostly with LSN and predecessor agencies, and 10 years in the IT industry in the UK and the Far East.

A particular focus of the TEL centre’s work for seven years has been new and emerging technologies for learning including mobile phones, PDAs, computer games and interactive digital television.

Jill led m-learning (2001-2004) the first large mobile learning project funded by the EU. She co-chaired the MLEARN2003 and MLEARN2004 international conferences and is Vice President of the International Association for Mobile Learning.

John Davitt is a writer, broadcaster and a digital toolmaker. He has worked in the education sector for the last twenty-five years as an English teacher, senior manager and regional adviser with the EU Flexible Learning Project. As a journalist he wrote for the UK Guardian, The Times and The Observer, with a regular feature in the Education Guardian. John has worked extensively with teachers in schools in UK, USA, China and Africa and he is committed to levelling the playing field regarding access to new learning opportunities. He is the author of the book “New Tools for Learning” (2006) a practical guide as to how to make the technology fit the learning need, and the WordRoot CD an interactive guides to words and their etymology. He has recently developed The Learning Score a visual tool that lets teachers map out and share learning intentions as a graphical event - rather like a music score. His latest project is the open source Learning Event Generator and the Rag - an interactive learning tool for the iPhone where you can literally shake up a learning challenge. His new book 'Setting Learning Free - The Difference Engine runs again' will be published in spring 2009.

John Traxler is Reader in Mobile Technology for e-Learning and Director of the Learning Lab at the University of Wolverhampton and of the UK Co-Lab of the American ADL network. He is a Director of the International Association for Mobile Learning, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and was Conference Chair of mLearn2008, the world’s biggest and oldest mobile learning research conference. John has co-written a guide to mobile learning in developing countries and is co-editor of the definitive book on mobile learning: Kukulska-Hulme, A. and Traxler, J. (2005) Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers, Routledge. John has written over 10 book chapters on mobile learning.

Joyce spent 14 years as a senior lecturer in Further Education. She moved to JISC as an e-learning advisor for the Yorkshire and Humber Regional support centre before joining RM Education to work on the South Yorkshire E-Learning Programme. She is now part of the RM team working in strategic partnership with Leeds City Council and Education Leeds. As a senior educational consultant, Joyce works with schools in the Leeds BSF programme to provide a bespoke Continuing Professional Development programme for all staff to support them through the BSF process. Joyce leads on new technology projects.

Judith Seipold is an associate at the WLE Centre, IoE London, member of the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG), and a PhD student at the University of Kassel. Her current research is on mobile learning as agentive and meaningful activity in school and everyday life. Judith focuses on the transformation of informal contexts and their structures in terms of formal learning, by means of m-learning projects in school and the use of mobile phones and their applications in everyday life. Since autumn 2008, Judith holds the post of the European Affairs Adviser to the European Affairs Commissioner of the Directors' Conference of the State Media Authorities in Germany.

Karl Royle works at the Centre for Development and Applied Research in Education (CDaRE), University of Wolverhampton. Karl has considerable experience in learning design for both screen and print-based media and has a background in teacher education, professional development, and education research project management. A former teacher in inner city schooling and manager in post-16 education, Karl specialises in integrating literacy development into video games and digital spaces. His interests are the development of thinking skills in game-based learning. His latest publication: Game-based learning: An alternative approach.
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Katie Barrowman is a Development Officer with Glow, Scotland's national schools intranet. She is a secondary English teacher, but quickly realised she had a passion for the use of ICT to support and enhance learning and teaching. As part of her role, she supports national events being run through Glow, and works with partner organisations from all fields to bring opportunities to schools that they might not otherwise be able to access. She sees her role as connecting classrooms across Scotland and beyond, encouraging collaboration and sharing between practitioners across all levels of Scottish Education. You can find her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/katiebarrowman.

I am Head of ICT in a school that was graded as outstanding in a 2009 Ofsted inspection. We were invitied to become a Leading Edge specialist school to research inovative, outstanding practice and share best practice locally and natiionally. As a result of our Leading Edge status I was recently asked by SSAT to present at the Achievement Show 09, Emirates Stadium in London. My active research project is \'MP3/MP4 devices as effective tools for teaching and learning.

In addition to Strategic Research into Mobile Learner Support, Keren is primarily responsible for running the Digilab, which is a staff development resource in the library for Open University staff, giving them the opportunity to get hands-on with a range of educational technologies. Keren also undertakes horizon scanning around technologies that could be used to improve library services, such as mobile technologies, social networking software, and gaming.

Laurie Wiseman is the Founder & Publishing Director of Primal Pictures. He has spearheaded the company's growth and development for 15 years, and has maintained its reputation for innovation. Primal has built the world's first complete 3D model of human anatomy online, now used in 500 top healthcare institutions around the world.

Linda Hahner is considered a pioneer in the design and development of interactive education material. She is a usability expert responsible for a number of first-of-kind innovations including: the first real-time Web3D advertisements for Silicon Graphics, the first commercial Java3D application for Sun Microsystems and an MPEG4 hand-held wireless computer game for France Telecom R&D. Hahner was the Primary Investigator on a U.S. Department of Education Small Business Innovation Research contract and a NASA seed grant. She was also a member of the NSF Center for Innovative Learning Technologies visualization group. Hahner served on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Web3D Consortium.

Prior to her work in the digital domain, Linda Hahner was an educator. She is passionate about using technology to support emergent readers and to teach English as a second or other language. She holds a B.A. (honors) from Principia College, an M.F.A. from Washington University and a T.E.S.O.L. certificate from the University of Surrey. She received a full scholarship to study at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Finland.

For more information: OutoftheBlue.com  LiteracyLady.com, LiteracyCenter.net  twitter.com/readtoday

Lisa is Principal Teacher of English at Perth High School. Born in Wishaw, she completed a BA in English and Education at the University of Stirling. She began her teaching career in Dundee in 1995 in Linlathen High School. At this stage, Lisa¹s experience of ICT in Education went little beyond basic word processing skills, but she began to explore the use of simple learning games and the use of desktop publishing in English. She led a school pilot in the use of a package aimed at improving basic literacy skills of reluctant learners. Lisa moved to Perth High School in 1998, and it was here her interest in ICT in Education really took off. Inspired by the far greater ICT proficiency of her then PT, Lisa has embraced new technologies and means of digital communication, using computer simulation packages in the English classroom as a context for literacy activities, Digital Video and Television broadcast software, using the school website and study forum to communicate with pupils and parents ­ even using iChat to teach multiple classes in the absence of suitable supply staff. Lisa sees ICT not as an added extra in the English class, but as an essential tool for communication in the 21st century classroom.

Louise Duncan is the eLearning co-ordinator at Shepparton High School 
in Victoria, Australia. She is recognised as an eLearning powerhouse 
having transformed learning at Shepparton High School with the iPod 
Touch.



Louise has been on a journey over the last five years to establish a 
Personalising Learning program to proactively know students and enable 
their learning. She successfully designed a new ICT rich, flexible 
learning centre, which has been operational for the past two years, 
exemplifying this innovative teaching practice.



Louise believes personal, mobile technology has a myriad of uses to 
connect students with their learning anywhere, anytime. Improvements 
in student outcomes in literacy, numeracy, attendance and engagement 
has been targeted and measured. 



Her determination and unstoppable enthusiasm to embed technology with 
learning has inspired schools across the nation and impressed other 
project participants from Singapore, USA and the UK in a world-first 
global mobile learning research project.



In 2009, Louise won the Lindsay Thompson Fellowship, the top teaching accolade in the State of Victoria to further international research in 
mobile learning.



Her blog documenting "Personalising Learning with the iPod Touch" 
can be accessed at http://louiseduncan.globalteacher.org.au

Lucianne Brown, an Educational Technology Consultant, joined Governors State University (GSU) in Illinois as a University Lecturer in the College of Education and the Assistant Director/Digital Preservationist for Teaching with Primary Sources Grant with the Library of Congress at GSU.  She loves preparing in-service and pre-service K-12 classroom teachers and higher education faculty to access and produce curriculum utilizing primary sources from the American Memory Web site created by the Library of Congress.  She received a Faculty Excellence Award and several mini-grants to serve as seed money to conduct “Mobile Learning Research”, which is considered a branch of online learning.

Previously, Luci was Director of one of the Illinois Learning Technology Centers/Professional Development Alliance obtaining a 2.8 millions dollar NCLB Technology Grant focused on Professional Development for teaching reading strategies in the content areas using Wireless handheld devices for every student in the 49 classrooms. In 2004, she received the Distinguished Presenter Award for outstanding online instruction at the Illinois Online Conference.  She received the 2003 Technologist of the Year Award for her leadership with online learning efforts and her work in the State of Illinois contributing to the advancement of technology in schools.

She completed her Ph.D. with Capella University in Instructional Design for Online Learning focused in Mobile Devices. She has taught for over 25 years in science and educational technology from 6th grade through graduate school supporting a constructivist pedagogy of technology integration.  Her most recent publications include, Mobile Learning for K-12, K-12 Virtual Schools, Facilitators in Virtual Spaces, Is Your Web Site Accessible for All Users?, and Technology Integration, Teachers That Impact Technology Part I, Teachers That Impact Technology Part II. She continues to present at national, state, and local conferences.

Lyn Pemberton is a teacher and researcher at the University of Brighton. Key interests are learner-centred design, mobile learning, and interactive TV.

Malcolm McLaren has proven to be a visionary of pop culture and a pop cultural icon for over thirty years.  An artist in the most post-modern sense of the word, time and time again, he has been at the forefront.  He is probably best recognized for his work in melding fashion with music: “the look of music and the sound of fashion”.

He started in the early 1970s when he opened his legendary shop on the King’s Road in London with his then partner, Vivienne Westwood, creating fashion that would dress the Punk Generation and inspire legions of fashion designers.  Alongside the fashion, McLaren founded, managed and art directed the iconic band, the Sex Pistols and went on to work with such artists as Boy George, Adam Ant and Bow Wow Wow, before becoming a recording artist in his own right.  His film of the Sex Pistols, THE GREAT ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SWINDLE is a Punk classic today.  McLaren’s solo albums DUCK ROCK (1981), FANS (1984), WALTZ DARLING (1989) and PARIS (1993) were major breakthroughs of musical genres: Hip Hop, Opera & R&B, lounge music, etc.  In 2004, Quentin Tarantino chose McLaren’s track, “About Her” for his film, KILL BILL2.

In 1985 McLaren went to Hollywood where he worked as a development executive for Columbia Pictures and Steven Spielberg.  In 1999, he ran for Mayor of London, gaining 10% of the popular vote. 

In 2003, McLaren discovered yet another new musical genre, the first of the 21st century: Micromusic, or Chip Music.  This music will be featured in McLaren’s next album.

In 2006, FAST FOOD NATION, a film which McLaren conceived and co-produced débuted at the Cannes Film festival main competition.  Based on the best-selling book by Eric Schlosser, and directed by Richard Linklater it was released in fall 2006.  

Presently, McLaren is developing a stage musical about fashion for Broadway which he has conceived.  McLaren’s “radio films” which he scripted and presented for the BBC have garnered critical acclaim and 2 Sony Gold (“Radio Oscars”) awards: “Malcolm McLaren’s Musical Map of London” (Best Music Special) in 2007 and “Malcolm McLaren’s Musical Map of Los Angeles” (Best Feature) in 2008.  Meanwhile, for the first time in his life, he has started to give live performances: a unique mixture of autobiographical storytelling, music and video projections in clubs all over Europe.  He featured in a 3-hour reality-documentary program called The Baron on ITV-1 this Spring to much acclaim and has also played Big Brother in the revamped version of Celebrity Big Brother in the UK: Celebrity Hijack.  Currently, McLaren is repackaging his first two solo albums, DUCK ROCK and FANS which will be re-issued in a new DVD/CD format.  Finally, returning to his roots as an artist, McLaren premiered SHALLOW 1-21, a series of twenty-one “Musical Paintings”—short films set around music that he composed.  SHALLOW 1-21 was unveiled on 2 June 2008 in a special exhibition as part of Art Basel Projects, a new section curated by the Art Basel committee at the Art Basel 39 fair in Basel, Switzerland.  Thereafter, SHALLOW had its North American premiere the last week of June in Times Square, New York City on the MTV 44 ½ screen.  The works were on display for the entire summer as part of Creative Time’s (New York’s leading public arts organization) re-launch of their artist video program formerly called “The 59th Minute”.  This December, the workmade its UK premiere as part of the GSK Contemporary “Collision Course” exhibition curated by David Thorp at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.  Further shows in museums and galleries are in the works for 2009.  He is currently based between Paris and New York.

Since October 1991, Marco Arrigo has worked at the Italian National Research Council-Institute for Educational Technologies of Palermo. He works on application of multimedia technology in educational hypermedia systems, networking technologies, and methods to present information on the Internet. Marco researches new technologies in distance education, cooperative learning systems, and intelligent agents. He is coordinator of the European project MOTILL: Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning: Best practices. Moreover, he is scientific and technical coordinator of national projects on mobile learning and information technologies for blind people. In 1996 Marco worked on image processing at the University of Surrey, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Guilford, United Kingdom.

Mark Hardwick, CEO of Ymogen, will speak about create.tv, a social networking tool built around collaborative film making. Create.tv brings creativity into the classroom by giving teachers and pupils a shared space where they can make films around any subject. What sets create.tv apart from other film making programmes is that it is web-based and enables real time collaboration - which means that team work needn’t stop when pupils leave the classroom. It brings the creative processes of writing, visualising, planning and editing films together with educational resources in one easy-to-use space. Teachers have active assessment mechanisms built into the collaboration tools. Public institutions and companies with audio-visual resources have a space to build creative projects around their material. Science, history and English teachers have used the platform to great effect , finding that it gives engaged pupils the space to work creatively and independently and less engaged pupils an entry point into coursework that does not interest them. According to one teacher who has used it “this is real independent learning, and the most effective use of social networking I have come across”.

Michael Acton Smith is CEO and founder of Multi-player game developers, Mind Candy. The company recently launched Moshi Monsters, a new virtual world aimed at children (7-12 year-olds). Kids adopt a unique, animated Monster from the world of Monstro City, and then nurture it by interacting with other Monsters and solving the daily puzzle games it sends them. Moshi Monsters is profitable and adding over 1m new registered users every month. Mind Candy's first project was Perplex City, an Alternate Reality Game played by thousands of people around the world across many different types of media including mobile phones, email, billboard advertising, actors at live events and skywriting. Prior to Mind Candy, Michael co-founded Firebox.com (online retailer of gadgets, games and gifts), Games Gone Wild, (Social Gaming Networking Event), Berwickstock (Boutique Music Fesitval in Soho) and Second Chance Tuesday (events to connect technology investors with entrepreneurs).

Mike has worked in English Language teaching for the past 24 years as a teacher, trainer, materials developer and project manager. He has taught and run English Language projects in a number of countries and regions around the world, including Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and, most recently, South Asia. For many of these years Mike worked with the British Council and had an increasing involvement in technologies used to deliver teaching and learning, and most particularly in virtual communities of teachers and learners. Since 2006 Mike has been teaching in and producing materials for English language learners in “Second Life”, and in January 2009 he joined the academic team at the Open University working on a large-scale government sponsored English language improvement project centred on Bangladesh (English in Action). This is using a combination of traditional and state of the art handheld technologies to reach up to 25 million Bangladeshis.

Mike’s professional interests include the role of languages in development, and the future direction and role of English.

Nabeel Ahmad is the mobile learning thought leader for IBM Learning. He is leading a shift in IBM's mobile learning strategy, focusing on how mobile devices can be used in the workplace for learning and performance improvement. He has worked with Bank of America, Columbia University, the New York City Department of Education and the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute on various learning projects.

Nabeel holds a Doctorate in Educational Technology from Columbia University, a Master of Science from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and a Business degree from the University of Oklahoma. He teaches a mobile learning graduate level course at Columbia University. He has published on mobile learning topics and has a keen interest in educational technology for growth markets.

More information: http://www.columbia.edu/~na2189/

Neil Milliken heads up Mobile Developments for Iansyst Ltd (a leading provider of technology & services for people with disabilities). He is currently running CapturaTalk joint venture for Iansyst.

Neil has over 7 years experience providing solutions for people with disabilities and working with technology. His areas of expertise include speech recognition, computer hardware and gadgets. Neil is a passionate believer that mobile phones are key to improving inclusion.

Neil has an MBA from the Open University and a Joint Honours Degree from Oxford. He is dyslexic and a user of the technology that Iansyst provide.

Nick Short is a qualified veterinary surgeon who teaches at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in London. He has worked extensively in the developing world as both a practising vet and a consultant. He currently is responsible for all e-learning development at the RVC including developing podcasts, “potcasts” and video casts for mobile devices.

In 1988 he established a veterinary charity called VETAID which seeks to support small scale livestock farmers in Africa by providing basic animal health care. Nick subsequently went on to establish the Internet Learning Trust which was responsible for a range of innovative projects including creating online links between schools inBirmingham and Johannesburg in 1996.

Nick has recently become involved in developing mobile solutions for use in Africa through his association with the London International Development Centre. Recently he has been working with an undergraduate research team in Zanzibar, led by Andrew Hagner, to trial a number of Android applications in the field.

Nicola Beddall-Hill is currently in her 1st year of an Economic and Social Research Council funded PhD studentship under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Raper at City University, London, and attached to the Teaching and Learning Research Programme’s Technology Enhanced Learning Ensemble project (http://www.ensemble.ac.uk/). Prior to this Nicola spent several years teaching in schools and further education; her interests in TEL led her to leave teaching and pursue research, beginning with a JISC-funded project at Heythrop College in 2008, which quickly led to the PhD later that year. Nicola holds a BA (Hons) in Social Sciences from Nottingham Trent University, MSc in Sport & Exercise (Psychology) & a PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education & Training from Sheffield Hallam University.

After 15 years in teaching, LEA advisory work and consultancy work for a number of curriculum and assessment projects, Niel joined the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority for the 'Dearing review' of the National curriculum in England. He led on assessment work in IT and D&T, being responsible for all areas of examinations and qualifications in those areas, continuing to be responsible for ICT at QCA.

Niel joined Becta in 1998 as Director for Schools where he led on its curriculum, LEA support and inclusion work. He also established Becta's Evidence and Practice directorate as a focus for educational research on ICT and good practice. Niel is Executive Director of Institutional and Workforce Development.

Ollie has had a successful and varied career working in Scottish education. He has been a teacher, head of department and school leader. He is currently seconded to Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) as National Adviser on Learning and Technology Futures. LTS is the education agency responsible for curriculum development in Scotland.

Over the years Ollie has won numerous awards for innovative classroom practice & project development including recognition from the Royal Geographical Society and the Scottish Qualifications Authority. Recently, at the Microsoft European Innovative Teachers Forum in Vienna, he was awarded first place in the category for Innovation in the use of ICT for the work that he has done on the use of computer games to enhance learning.

Ollie is one of Scotland’s leading experts on Internet safety and responsible use for schools and was one of the first CEOP (Child Exploitation Online Protection Agency) Ambassadors in the UK. He has run workshops for over 1000 adults across Scotland and developed sustainable community driven models to promote the responsible use of the Internet.

As well as technology, Ollie is passionate about outdoor learning and getting children out of the classroom. He remains a full member of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors and regularly advises schools and other organizations on outdoor learning policy and practice.

Outside of his day job he has consulted for a wide range of stakeholders including BBC, Oxford Education, Hodder Gibson, Boardworks and Young Scot. His current interests include social media in schools, computer games in education, mobile technologies, school design and 21st century school leadership.

He is an Apple Distinguished Educator, member of the SCSSA Advisory Group on School Leadership, member of the Media Literacy Scotland National Steering Group and Chair of Trustees for Volunteer Development East Lothian. In his spare time he leads global youth wilderness adventures for Leading Edge Expeditions.

Further information can be found at his learning log: www.olliebray.com he also tweets at: www.twitter.com/olliebray

Paul Hodgkinson is an Advisory Teacherwith Durham LA. After working for G.E.C. in electronic research and graduating from Durham in Physics and Electronics he decided to enter the classroom and use his experience of technology to transform learning. He has fifteen years of teaching experience and nine years of advisory experience. In his current role he supports all phases of schools helping them develop their vision and successfully implement change to transform learning. He was heavily involved in the Durham 24/7 project using PDA\'s and is now using UMPC\'s with schools.

Peter van Ooijen, MSc, PhD, graduated as a Master in Technical Informatics from the Technical University Delft, The Netherlands in 1996 in the group of Computer Graphics. He started to work in the field of radiology on advanced visualization that same year at the Erasmus University Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2000 he continued his work at the University Medical Center Groningen. In 2004 he got his PhD of the medical faculty of the University of Groningen with his thesis entitled Technical and clinical evaluation of non-invasive coronary imaging using advanced three- and four-dimensional visualization techniques. Since 2008 he is heading a group on Medical Informatics and Imaging within the radiology department. He is (co)author of over 45 PubMed listed research papers, over 170 conference abstracts and over 20 book chapters in the field of medical informatics and imaging.

A learning technologist for the past 9 years and currently based in the Centre for Learning & Teaching at the University of Aberdeen, Phil is involved in implementing, supporting and developing technologies to help improve learning. He has a long standing interest in game-based learning, simulations, and mobile devices - not necessarily all at the same time. He is currently working on a number of projects in these areas.

Philip Griffin is a Y6 teacher at Radstock Primary School where he is ICT and Assessment for Learning Coordinator. He is a Leading Teacher for Primary ICT with Wokingham LA. For the last five years he has been using mobile technology in the classroom with mobile phones and Nokia Internet Tablets, linked to the Learning Platform. Awards include a Uniservity Award for Excellence and the Becta and GTC Teaching Awards (Southern Region). His ex pupils won the Handheld Learning Y Factor Award. Philip writes for ICTopus’ Sharing Good Practice magazine and is on the National Council of NAPE.

Elisabeth (Betty) Hayes is a professor in the Division of Learning, Technology and Psychology in Education at ASU’s Graduate School of Education. Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 2007, she was a professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a founding member of the Games, Learning, & Society research collective. She brings to gaming research a background in adult literacy education, adult learning and gender equity. She has been on the faculties at Syracuse and Rutgers University, and was an adult literacy teacher and teacher trainer.

Dr. Hayes’s current research interests focus on gender, digital technologies and learning, particularly the development of IT fluency. She is the author and editor of numerous articles, chapters, and books, including Women as Learners (2000). Dr. Hayes was a lead investigator on two MacArthur-funded projects: GameDesigner, a collaborative project with the NYC company gameLab to create innovative game design software helps young people acquire technical, artistic, and cognitive skills, and the TechSavvy Girls project, which investigated how gaming can be a starting point for the development of IT fluency, particularly for girls and women.  Currently she is investigating how simulation games like The Sims can support young people’s (particularly girls’) acquisition of model-based reasoning skills.

James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University.  He is a member of the National Academy of Education.  His book Sociolinguistics and Literacies (1990, Third Edition 2007) was one of the founding documents in the formation of the “New Literacy Studies”, an interdisciplinary field devoted to studying language, learning, and literacy in an integrated way in the full range of their cognitive, social, and cultural contexts.  His book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (1999, Second Edition 2005) brings together his work on a methodology for studying communication in its cultural settings, an approach that has been widely influential over the last two decades.  His most recent books both deal with video games, language, and learning.  What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003, Second Edition 2007) argues that good video games are designed to enhance learning through effective learning principles supported by research in the Learning Sciences.  Situated Language and Learning (2004) places video games within an overall theory of learning and literacy and shows how they can help us in thinking about the reform of schools.  His most recent book is Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays (2007).  Prof. Gee has published widely in journals in linguistics, psychology, the social sciences, and education.

Ray Kurzweil has been described as "the restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal, and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison," and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries.

As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray’s web site Kurzweil AI.net has over one million readers.

Among Ray’s many honors, he is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world's largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame , established by the US Patent Office.

He has received nineteen honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents.

Ray has written six books, four of which have been national best sellers.  The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science.  Ray’s latest book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy.

Rhodri Thomas is the Senior Project Manager in The Open University’s Learning Innovation Office. His primary responsibility is for the ‘Mobile VLE’ as part of a wider scope of work in Mobile Learner Support. He also has an interest in collaboration and blended/hybrid online staff development sessions as part of his role in championing the Elluminate real-time environment at the OU, and also in ongoing work in the Digilab. Rhodri’s past work was in the preceding VLE programme, to encourage adoption of more flexible approaches suitable for mobile learners. Particular emphasis was placed on audiovisual media through podcasting and building on previous development of mobile educational resources as part of the Digital Education Enhancement Project for rural teacher development in Africa.

Richard founded MobileEd.org, a group exploring how mobile phones complement and shape learning. MobileEd has won an entrepreneur’s scholarship from the Mass High Tech Leadership Council, serves on several review boards in the mobile learning and mobile web for development spaces, and has presented to notable groups such as MobileMondayBoston, Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick and his administration, and the US Department of Education. Richard has over ten years experience teaching in the classroom, and over a decade’s experience in the venture capital and start-up company spaces.

Robin Deegan is currently a postgraduate research student at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT). His current area of research is usability with a specific focus on usability of mobile applications for m-learning. He is also part of the EU wide Atlantis project, an interdisciplinary project involving 10 universities and companies from England, Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Germany and the USA, collaborating in order to research and implement new pedagogical concepts. His involvement in this project is to create usable m-learning applications. Robin has a BSc Open (Hons) which was obtained from the Open University in 2007 with a focus on interaction design and computing. He has previously worked as a web designer and web application developer.

Ronah Harris is an independent educational consultant for television and digital media. She specializes in instructional design and development for emerging digital platforms. She has written, advised, and conducted evaluation research for educational television, interactive games, online learning and e-toys. Ronah received her MSEd at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently completing her EdD at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her consulting company Play Pattern LLC is located in New York.

Rowena is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Curriculum Research and Development at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. She lectures in Design & Technology Education and is currently involved in researching the use of new mobile and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning.

Sal came to the Director’s post at the JISC TechDis Service from a very wide background in Technology Enhanced Learning including the embedding of ICT, ILT and e-learning. Having worked in industry and returning to teach in Schools and Colleges of Further Education and the University Sector, Sal was seconded in the early 1980s to work as the Curriculum Development Officer responsible for the integration of IT in post-16 education in Yorkshire and the Humber. From this post Sal was further seconded to various national agencies such as Ferl, Becta, JISC and the then Department for Education and Skills, working on the e-learning programmes and the Harnessing Technology Strategy.

Sal’s vision for the Service which is shared passionately by her team, is to ensure that the focus and direction of JISC TechDis remains being the pragmatic voice of inclusion, accessibility in the innovative use of technologies to support learning and teaching across the Education Sectors in all countries and regions across the UK This has evolved into a wide variety of audiences for the work of JISC TechDis including the many facets of the Further Education and Wider Skills sectors, Higher Education and Sal is personally particularly involved with e-learning programmes of the Independent Specialist Colleges sector. Recently Sal has been delighted to steer the Service to becoming central to many of the large national initiatives to raise the standards of teaching in both FE and Skills and the HE sectors, (e-guides and e-CPD within FE with Professional Recognition in HE). Sal has also taken the lead in ensuring the JISC TechDis is thought integral to the world of work, employability and Business and Community Engagement programmes, work Based learning, recently lead by JISC.

Scott Perkins is a long-time professor in the Department of Psychology at Abilene Christian University and holds joint appointments as the University’s Director of Research and the Coordinator of Mobile Learning Research. He hold the doctorate in Experimental Psychopathology from The Pennsylvania State University and completed a residency in Clinical Psychology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Perkins has been at ACU for 22 years and throughout this time has conducted research and published/presented findings with numerous student co-authors, many of whom have gone on to pursue teaching and research careers of their own. Recently, the majority of his research efforts have focused on assessing the impact and success of ACU’s Mobile Learning Initiative; addressing topics such as the relationship of mobile device utilization to student academic performance and engagement, faculty acceptance of educational transformation and innovation, strategies to facilitate development of faculty research expertise on mobile learning topics within their discipline, and on coordinating multi-site investigations of the various aspects of mobile learning device deployment and utilization in higher educational settings.

Mr. Gross designed, developed, and implemented the first US mobile learning initiative in grades K-12, Project K-Nect. Supporting this development, Mr. Gross assembled a team of experts comprising software developers, curriculum specialist, curriculum developers, professional development staff, and education researchers. The goal of this effort was to demonstrate the efficacy of utilizing mobile devices to increase student achievement. In addition to the development, implementation, and management of Project K-Nect, Mr. Gross was responsible for launching the 1st US Mobile Learning Conf.

Simon Densley has been a software engineer in London for over 10 years. A chance discussion with a scientist at the Royal Institution 10 years ago made him realise that mobile phones used microwaves that were potentially harmful. Deciding that merely not owning one would keep him safe from any harm, he became like most people, taking little more interest in the mobile phone health issue after that. This all changed five years ago when a mobile phone operator erected a 12 meter phone mast right opposite his front door. He decided to use his background understanding of physics to investigate the issue properly and the research papers he discovered demonstrated that there was a significant body of evidence suggesting the technology does cause biological damage. He has been campaigning with Mast Sanity ever since to raise awareness and press the government to acknowledge and take action on the huge amount of evidence that exists.

Born in Leicestershire (1940) and was brought up there and in East Anglia. Tim attended state schools and gained a degree in modern history from Oxford. He trained to be a teacher, taught in Grammar (Derbyshire) and Secondary Modern(South Wales) schools before embarking on a career in educational administration. Tim was Deputy Education Officer (I.L.E.A), Chief Education Officer (Oxfordshire 1978-1989 and Birmingham 1993-2002) and also Professor of Education (Keele 1989-2003), Commissioner for London Schools/Chief Adviser for London Schools (2002-2007)..Visiting Professor Institute of Education London 2002- ). Tim has written books on education, broadcast, spoken at local, national and international conferences. He holds honorary degrees from a number of British Universities and is married with children and grandchildren. Tim supports Oxford United, enjoys reading and plays golf badly.

Tim received a knighthood in the 2009 New Years Honours for his services to education.

As an educational consultant in Northumberland, supporting schools using ICT, Steve has a passion for using games in learning and can see the obvious enthusiasm from pupils. He has heard more than once, ‘Are we really using Nintendos in lessons?’ As part of a Becta-sponsored Harnessing Technology project, he has been using Nintendo DSes to develop the use of enquiry. A main focus has been using the Pictochat feature of the DS as a collaborative tool. Steve began his career teaching upper primary pupils and has developed expertise in the secondary range as a National Strategies consultant over the past seven years. Using games in schools has enabled new exciting opportunities to be developed in the curriculum. He works closely with schools and local games companies to develop enterprise.

As a primary teacher he worked across the key stages, first as Music Coordinator and then as Coordinator for ICT.
Starting with an ambition to make ICT an integral part of children’s learning and half a dozen computers, his love of technology and belief in how it could shape the curriculum helped in developing a new scheme of work and the schools’ capacity to successfully deliver the core ICT curriculum and enhance other subject areas through the use of technology.

Since 2002, Stuart has worked for Greenwich Children’s Services, as a primary advisor for ICT and is currently the CLC Scheme Manager, overseeing the three buildings in Greenwich.

New and emerging technologies continue to fascinate Stuart, and he is constantly looking for ways in which technology can he harnessed in core subjects and across the curriculum to raise standards. Recently this has included partnerships with LEGO Education, the Apple RTC Programme and Nintendo UK.

He has implemented a number of Handheld Learning initiatives within Greenwich schools, including pilot projects using Nintendo DS, and the use of Sony PSPs as an Assessment for Learning tool in primary dance, art and literacy.

Thomas Black is the Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs and University Registrar at Stanford University. He has worked in higher education for over 30 years in various administrative positions including the registrar offices of the University of Chicago, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He's an honorary member of the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers and the Carolinas Association of Collegiate Registrars, and he frequently presents at the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers national conferences. Tom recently completed his term as a member of the National Student Clearinghouse Advisory Board. Perfecting the electronic transcript and its safe delivery via the Internet is Tom's ongoing work. He's also interested in increasing the exchange of student data using national standards while ensuring only authorized access to that information. Tom received his B.A. and M. Ed. degrees from Penn State University.

Tim Rylands has been described as “an extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of technology and an excellent rapport with his pupils”.

Tim has received a vast amount of press coverage around the world for his innovative use of ICT. Observers have commented on his imaginative and encouraging style of teaching, which allows children to express their creativity and make significant gains in attainment.
Tim is now much in demand for seminars and conferences around the country, presenting the results of his work in an inspiring, practical and often humorous way.

Tim has over 20 years of experience in schools as far afield as the West Country and West Africa. He has gained notable recognition for using the games in the Myst series to inspire children’s creative confidence in many areas of the curriculum e.g. creative writing, speaking and listening, music and art.

Tim is also well known for his musicals, written for children and performed to great acclaim around the country.

Tim is a firm believer that ICT is about communication more than technology … and that it should be FUN!

In 2005 Tim won the 2005 Becta ICT in Practice Award.

As featured on Teachers TV, BBC, CNN, The Times,
The Guardian, The Independent, and many others

For more information visit: www.timrylands.com

Tim Tarrant is Head of the ICT Team at the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA). The Agency is the Government organisation with responsibility for the training of people in England to become teachers and the professional development of people working in schools.

Prior to his appointment at the TDA he led a team in the DfES ICT in Schools Division responsible for teacher training and staff development in ICT and laptop schemes for teachers. He was one of the three people in the UK to lead on the design and introduction of the CAD-CAM initiative to schools which led to a change in the National Curriculum.

His background is in education, adult training and ICT. He originally worked in ICT as a computer programmer and systems analyst, led on several projects and ran training programmes to train others to introduce computer-based systems. In 2006 he received an award from the Design and Technology Association for his "outstanding contribution to D&T".

Vicky Fobel is a solicitor and a parent of two young children. Two years ago when researching the health risks of wireless products in the home, she was surprised to discover uncertainty surrounding their safety and the extent of evidence of harm.

She co-founded WiredChild to raise awareness of the extent of evidence that wireless products may have harmful health effects for children. She feels passionately that a better balance between technical benefits and safety is urgently needed.

Vicki Owen is a Project Officer for Learner and Student Support Services at Liverpool John Moores University. She is currently researching mobile technologies in teaching, learning and student support; throughout her research, Vicki has maintained a project blog. Vicki has presented at the MmIT seminar on ‘Mobile Learning in Libraries’ and at the m-Libraries Conference 2009 in Canada. Vicki is awaiting publication in CILIP Gazette also. Vicki’s main interests are mobile learning, technology-enhanced learning, ‘Net Gen’ learners and social media.

After a 20 year career in HM Inspectorate of Education in Scotland, Walter Patterson is now an educational consultant specialising in the use of technology to enhance learning. A pioneer of ICT use in his own teaching, Walter used his influence as an HMI to encourage and support the spread of ICT across all stages of education in Scotland. This included work with key national agencies to ensure that government policies kept pace with emerging technology trends. He was also the architect of HMI frameworks for evaluating the quality of ICT provision and use in centres. His recent consulting work includes clients such as the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Government and HMIE. His presentation arises from his work with Microsoft/SQA joint Partners in Learning (PIL) projects to support grassroots innovation and develop communities of learning, involving schools in over ten local authorities in Scotland. To evaluate these projects, Walter made effective use of a ‘mobile diary room’ to acquire the views of learners about the impact of ICT use on their own learning experiences. The portable device was the outcome of collaboration between the PIL team, Walter and the design consultancy 55degrees.

Yvonne Roberts is an award winning journalist who has worked for all the major national newspapers specialising in investigations, interviews, features and comment. She was an associate Features Editor of Robert Maxwell’s now defunct London Daily News and a section editor on The Observer. She has also worked in current affairs television in the Middle East, the USA and Europe, working for both the BBC and ITV and continues to broadcast from time to time. She is the author of four novels and four works of non-fiction whose subjects include gender issues, feminism, social policy and education. At present, she is a senior associate at The Young Foundation, a social innovation think tank that is involved, locally, nationally and internationally, in research, consultancy and funding and supporting social enterprises. Yvonne’s remit at the Young Foundation is health, education, wellbeing, parenting support and local regeneration. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian and The Guardian’s Comment is Free and she is working on a novel based around The Battle of Waterloo.

She is the author of Grit, published by the Young Foundation, that attempts to make the case for radical change in education in the UK, advocating an end to the ‘one size fits all’ approach – and encouraging more diversity, a greater value placed on practical and vocational learning and the importance of emotional and social literacy, resilience, self-discipline and persistence – or Grit.

Zenna Atkins is an acclaimed Social Entrepreneur. She is an executive consultant for Social Solutions, a social sector consultancy company, dedicated to building capacity and maximising opportunities for the third sector, specialising in social Enterprise development and sustainability. She is Chairman of Ofsted, the children and learners inspection and regulation body, chairman of the NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust in Portsmouth and the Group Chairman of Places for People, a national property development and management company dedicated to creating neighbourhoods of choice for all, managing 58 thousand properties, building 1700 homes a year. She is the Non Executive Director on the Royal Navy Fleet executive board and Audit Committee chair. She is also a trustee of Legacy Trust UK and voluntary Chair of an innovative young persons organisation dreamwall, offering risk based experiences designed to develop personal responsibility. She has a national reputation, is a sought after conference speaker and is an advisor on governmental panels and committees, exploring a range of issues including health, social engagement and social entrepreneurship. Zenna is a regular columnist for the guardian and has extensive publications in the health and housing press.

In 2000 she won Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year South Region and in 2003 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Portsmouth University. Zenna is married and has two fantastic children living with her, a boy aged 12 and a girl aged 8 as well two nearly fully grown and flown step daughters.

Zoe Goodwin has been working in education for 19 years and is currently seconded to the Academies Enterprise Trust as Director of Professional Training and Development across the federation of schools, responsible for leading on staff development at all levels. Prior to this position she had been Vice Principal at Greensward College in Hockley Essex, responsible for Training & Development.

With her roots firmly placed in initial teacher training and early professional development (she currently works as both an external assessor for a local GTP provider and as an OU Associate Lecturer and Subject Tutor for the now flexible PGCE distance learning course), Zoe has a keen awareness of the need for training to continue throughout a teacher’s career and has worked hard over the past few years to merge ITT with NQT induction and continuing professional development. In 2008, Zoe was part of a Masters writing team, working with Essex University and she is currently co-delivering a module on Mentoring and Coaching across the AET. She is also working with ARU on the delivery of a module for Early Professional Development and is a trained TLA leader and verifier for the GTCE.

Zoe also has a keen interest in all aspects of Leadership and she has recently developed a ‘Developing Leaders’ programme for the AET which forms the basis of a talent management initiative embracing both the pedagogical and organisational aspects of leadership.

Believing in the need for innovation and creativity in meeting the professional needs of those working in education Zoe has conducted a considerable amount of research into the use of observatories and filmed lesson observations in the development of teachers and has produced a document on good practice. She has also recently developed an e-portfolio for the monitoring and assessment of the Q standards required for the award of QTS – this tool is currently part of a TDA research commitment - she has already expanded this to incorporate the C, P, E and A standards.

Zoe’s interest in education, however, stretches outside of the school and the classroom. She has been involved in a considerable amount of research into learning how to learn, including the work of Gardner, de Bono and Buzan but most importantly into the concept of how we learn more effectively if we understand how the brain works. Part of this research included visits to Harvard University as well as to a number of Melbourne schools and colleges which explained much about the work of Dr Julia Atkin and how meta cognition permeates what the Australian’s consider to be a truly 'thinking curriculum'. As a result of this research and interest in the brain, Zoe has produced a number of resources for use in schools and has presented at both local and national level.