Abstract :
Over the past five years 1:1 learning with personal technologies has moved from a series of research projects to adoption in classrooms throughout the world. The One Laptop Per Child initiative, despite its many setbacks, has been successful in raising awareness of the potential for learning with personal computers and has led to a market for low cost ultra-mobile computers. New methods of classroom orchestration and media production with personal devices are offering personalised and creative learning in the classroom. These are now being fully integrated into schools, such as Djanogly Academy in Nottingham, a new school building designed to support 1:1 learning for every student. I shall suggest that 1:1 learning in the classroom is just the start of a process of technology-enabled lifelong learning. The next step is to enable personalised learning technologies across many contexts, including schools, colleges, homes, museums, workplaces and cities. In my talk I shall give some examples of such 1:1@many learning. The MyArtSpace project has connected learning between schools and museums. The PI project is developing a new approach to 'scripted inquiry learning' in which children engage in science learning across classrooms, school grounds, homes, science centres and cities, supported by software on a personal computer to guide their investigations. The PaSAT project is exploring context-based game learning. The future generation of contextual technologies, using location detection plus new methods of social awareness, offers opportunities for new forms of learning that connects people across contexts and between real and virtual worlds.