Going Mobile at UNL-ATE

Yesterday, we went to visit The UNL-ATE Hotel to attend Nicky Hockly's talk called "Going Mobile". It was a windy but beautiful evening, the perfect day to be absent from our regular Monday lessons at Brown School. 

We met at the conference room and Nicky started to examine how mobile devices and education can help bridge the gap between school and the outside world, bringing together the local and the global. Such a controversial and interesting topic!

As you can see above even our "eco-teacher" Letizia was very interested in the issue! For Nicky, "mobile learning refers to the use of a range of handheld devices across a range of contexts, both inside and outside the classroom". Along the workshop, she amused us with a number of classroom activities using mobile devices.

We found the workshop very useful, since students nowadays are using their mobile phones all the time. For us, integrating this kind of devices in the lessons helps to keep students in touch with learning as well as with up-to-date technology. In that way, students can bring knowledge and materials to the lesson that they can not only use outside school, but also inside the classroom. 

Finally, before going home, we took a group photograph with the "celebrity".
Thank you for sharing your brilliant ideas Nicky! And thank you for the invitation Leti!