Sorry to talk shop in the holiday but i'm looking into the possibility of using devices such as i pod touch, PSP's, DS Lites, phones etc (as oppose to net books and laptops) in the classroom but need some curriculum applications to give me some ideas of uses?

Anyone use them already?

ta very much

The Royal Navy use PSP for some of their new recruits. Asking for trouble with kids surely!

Not in a classroom as such but have used these with school groups in the outdoors.

http://www.wildknowledge.co.uk/

Well this has gone from the initial idea of giving them laptops to giving them a device of some sort but then i thought most of them have got something already now i just need to work out how to make the best use of them.

Any idea what the Navy use the PSP's for?

ta

thanks Dave they look interesting, were they user friendly?

A colleague of mine users clickers in lectures – is this related to the technology you're talking about? He'll stop the lecture and put up 3 or 4 multiple choice questions on the content and the students respond via the clickers – the results can show how they're understanding the content (I think that's the idea). Quite popular AFAIK.

http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/11/28/royal-navy-buys-230-sony-psp-consoles-learning-purposes/

There was a newspaper article the other day about an entire school being issued with Ipod Touches.

Think it was the Guardian.

EDIT – here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/school_league_tables/article6906665.ece

Another article on a different school here http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/jul/20/news.elearning

Any idea what the Navy use the PSP's for?

'Serious Games', not what MoD officially call them, are used across the services from training surgeons to cut in the right place to developing tactics. If you're interested, I know someone who you could speak to at Cranfield University.

thanks folks some good stuff there

thanks Dave they look interesting, were they user friendly?

Kids took a couple of minutes to get used to the functions then started creating their own trails with their own video/audio and text content

A school I worked at last year had a classes work of DS's. Mental maths software. Supposedly to address a identified weak point. Great at start but the kids got fed up after a few weeks. Real pain keeping them charged and and each one needed several users but the kids would stick their own on and override others. Dubious value I reckon, along with peers massage, etc

Try:

http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

Some good stuff going on up in Scotland, DS, Guitar hero, Myst etc.:
Games Based Learning

Go to the sharing practice section.

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training on the DS

Some great ICT blogs here:

[*]Ewan McIntosh[/*]

[*]Doug Belshaw[/*]

[*]Tom Barrett[/*]

[*]Tim Rylands[/*]

I've been using Promethean activexpression

http://www.prometheanworld.com/server.php?show=nav.15997

I only teach A-level but my students still love them after 4 outings

I think they have a great potential, with the usual rider, if used well

Basically each kid has a wireless hand held device a bit bigger than a mobile. They can do multiple choice question or free text response or all the other usual suspects like a number or rate on a scale

the software is fine now but we got lost in a maze of old versions of software and compatibility issues

The softwaregives the teacher good feed back. Who answered what and when, all the data can be exported to excel