Handheld Learning 2009

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