Hands up -- do we have any UK-based teachers in the audience today? If so, you may wish to turn your head towards the Handheld Learning Conference, due to take place in London between October 13th and 15th. Apparently, organizers of the event will be dishing out free DS Lites and a copy of Brain Training to every attendee.
The point of this? According to conference founder Graham Brown-Martin, it's not a gimmick, but a chance for delegates to "experience an environment that would typically not be allowed in a classroom," while the conference itself is all about "exploring the convergence between consumer electronics, entertainment software, educational technology and learning" and HAY GUISE TOTALLY FREE DSES.
On a serious note, it's actually really satisfying to see any gaming device viewed as potentially helpful to the chil'n. Maybe in a few years Dr. Kawashima will teach all of the world's kids. His blunt manner would be a winner at parent teacher conferences, and he'd never do what we now know as a "Mr. Brown" and run off with Mrs. Carruthers.
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6-03-2008 @ 4:09PM
jhammar007 said...
Is that a screencap from "All Quiet on the Western Front"?
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6-03-2008 @ 7:04PM
ibrahim said...
I can't see anything on that site about free attendance. Registration costs £275 (about $550 approx).
So unfortunatley, no free DSes for registrants, unless if your employee pays for you.
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6-03-2008 @ 8:35PM
velocitySTRIKE said...
Conferences...aren't supposed to be free. Have you ever actually been to one?
6-04-2008 @ 11:47AM
ibrahim said...
yes velocitySTRIKE; i've been to some that have had free registration and two that had a small charge to attend. I'm used to freebies at this sort of thing (My gf received a delightful DVD on the abuse of women in hardcore porn when she attended a feminist one recently).
By saying "HAY GUISE TOTALLY FREE DSES" I assumed that Chris was implying that if you were a teacher, you could turn up, sit around, listen to a few people give presentations and then grab a free ds. This isn't a big deal, I don't reckon many readers here would have got their hopes up for nothing.
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