UK teachers getting free DSes, bloggers rethink career paths
Hands up -- do we have any UK-based teachers in the audience today? If so, you may wish to turn your head towards the Handheld Learning Conference, due to take place in London between October 13th and 15th. Apparently, organizers of the event will be dishing out free DS Lites and a copy of Brain Training to every attendee.
The point of this? According to conference founder Graham Brown-Martin, it's not a gimmick, but a chance for delegates to "experience an environment that would typically not be allowed in a classroom," while the conference itself is all about "exploring the convergence between consumer electronics, entertainment software, educational technology and learning" and HAY GUISE TOTALLY FREE DSES.
On a serious note, it's actually really satisfying to see any gaming device viewed as potentially helpful to the chil'n. Maybe in a few years Dr. Kawashima will teach all of the world's kids. His blunt manner would be a winner at parent teacher conferences, and he'd never do what we now know as a "Mr. Brown" and run off with Mrs. Carruthers.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jhammar007 @ Jun 3rd 2008 4:09PM
Is that a screencap from "All Quiet on the Western Front"?
ibrahim @ Jun 3rd 2008 7:04PM
I can't see anything on that site about free attendance. Registration costs 275 (about $550 approx).
So unfortunatley, no free DSes for registrants, unless if your employee pays for you.
velocitySTRIKE @ Jun 3rd 2008 8:35PM
Conferences...aren't supposed to be free. Have you ever actually been to one?
ibrahim @ Jun 4th 2008 11:47AM
yes velocitySTRIKE; i've been to some that have had free registration and two that had a small charge to attend. I'm used to freebies at this sort of thing (My gf received a delightful DVD on the abuse of women in hardcore porn when she attended a feminist one recently).
By saying "HAY GUISE TOTALLY FREE DSES" I assumed that Chris was implying that if you were a teacher, you could turn up, sit around, listen to a few people give presentations and then grab a free ds. This isn't a big deal, I don't reckon many readers here would have got their hopes up for nothing.