Connecting learning: formal and informal

A recent post on Slideshare (a site for sharing your presentations), by Mike Sharples University of Nottingham, Disruptive mobile learning, can certainly spark your imagination when considering questions such as:

• How can we enable effective 1:1 digital learning in the classroom?
• What can we do to connect learning about the world with learning in the world?
• How can we extend the classroom into everyday learning?

The point is made that ballpoint pens, calculators and more recently mobile phones have been banned from classrooms because of their disruptive nature. However, if the educational potential of handheld technologies can be realised, then this may be a way forward (probably via laptops??).