James Huggins, Made in Me, LWF Talk, London 2011

Digital storytelling for young learners

James Huggins is the Managing Director of Made in Me, a multimedia publishing company that creates interactive games, books and toys to inspire young children to learn. The company has launched The Land of Me, an interactive picture book world where young children and adults can engage in a variety of creative activities including music composition and storytelling.



Abdul Chohan, Essa Academy, LWF Talk, London 2011

1:1 mobile device deployment in a school

Abdul Chohan, Director, Essa Academy discusses the impact and results of school wide 1:1 deployment of iPod touch and iPad devices to every student and staff member.

Essa Academy is the first school in the UK to give out iPod touches to all students and staff. The Academy believes in allowing students to access information and deepen learning beyond the classroom.

The creativity that that has been inspired by the use of this technology has been amazing. Staff and students are able to have seamless communication that allows learning conversations to develop and feedback to be of a higher quality as well as being personalised.

The technology has been an enabler of transformation and has also contributed to our vision of the new build that has recently commenced.

William Rankin, ACU, LWF Talk, London 2011

1:1 mobile device deployment in a university

William Rankin, Director of Educational Innovation and Associate Professor of English, Abilene Christian University presents at the LWF Festival of Learning & Technology discussing the campus wide deployment of iPads and mobile devices within the university.

Jason DaPonte, The Swarm, LWF Talk, London

Mobile & mobile futures

Trends coming up that will be important in the next few years.

Jason DaPonte, Founder, The Swarm and former head of mobile content at the BBC presents his vision of the future for mobile technology and the impact on learning and society.

Evan Roth, Artist, LWF Talk, London 2011

Disruption in art, open-source technology and learning

Evan Roth, Artist, presents at the Learning Without Frontiers Festival of Learning & Technology. Evan demonstrates and explores disruption in art and open source technology.