This document summarizes an event hosted by the Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (MELSIG) at Sheffield Hallam University. The event will discuss how smart devices can enhance learning by making connectivity ubiquitous and personal. It will include a morning session together, an afternoon session at Aspect Court, and a launch of a new book called "Digital Voices" that discusses how recorded voices can change learning.

1. #MELSIG
MELSIG site
Smart Devices for
Learning
Sheffield Hallam University
Andrew Middleton SFHEA 8 February 2013

2. Welcome to
The Media-Enhanced
Learning Special Interest
Group
• People
• Innovation and change
• New digital media
• Ideas and risky thinking
• Together - generating
ideas, sharing practice,
asking questions, taking
risks…

3. Smart Devices for
Learning
• Connectivity – always on
• Personal (not institutional)
• Authentic and ubiquitous –
ever-present like 'intelligent clothing'
• Changing the learning context and
the learning environment
• How?
• Today: diverse experience and
interests

4. Arrangements
• Interest and capacity
• Morning - together here
• 'Challenging' walk!
• Lunch and Afternoon -
Aspect Court
• Recording ideas and
discussions
• (Housekeeping)

5. Launch of
Digital Voices
• Representing the MELSIG ethos
• How the recorded voices of
teachers, students, employers,
professionals and many others
can change and enhance
learning
• Essays, case studies and 50
ideas
• 24 authors from UK post-
compulsory education
• Please pass information to your
library's acquisition team

6. Launch of
Digital Voices
• Representing the MELSIG ethos
• How the recorded voices of
teachers, students, employers,
professionals and many others
can change and enhance
learning
• Essays, case studies and 50
ideas
• 24 authors from UK post-
compulsory education
• Please pass information to your
library's acquisition team