OOKL – explore the world around you

Do you want your teachers to say ‘Fantastic’, ‘It made everyone feel really special‘, ‘It helped the boys show what they could do without being limited by language’, ‘They felt trusted‘?

These are a few of the quotes that Sue Johnson, from the Institute of Education at London University, recorded in her interviews with teachers and students who used OOKL to study botany at Kew.

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Check out the exotic plants i found on my visit to Kew

Kew Gardens will be using OOKL to explore the science and art of Henry Moore at Kew. They will also be using OOKL to support the teaching of ecology and botany, both at Kew and at the National Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place.

This partnership follows a number of successful trials of OOKL with Kew’s education department and the Institute of Education. The trials showed that OOKL helped children to engage in learning constructively, giving them self-motivation and the ability to share their enthusiasm. They worked like scientists because they were investigating and collecting evidence.

T-mobile, headline sponsors at the handheld learning conference, will be promoting OOKL on their stand as one of their preferred education partners. Find out more about the handheld learning conference.

Campion CLC offers inspirational learning through technology. We are pleased to announce that Campion has joined us and we look forward to hearing how students in Liverpool are using OOKL to learn from the world around them.

OOKL is being used by Firstsite in Colchester to help students to explore both the construction of their new art gallery and the city urban environment itself. Use OOKL to help your students see their city through new eyes.

“We recently borrowed some OOKL’s for our super learning day from Abraham Moss City Learning Centre. The children thought they were fantastic. Nursery children to year six were taking photos and recording sounds and they are now being used by our news team at school. OOKL even got a mention when Channel M and the Manchester News channel covered our super learning day.” ICT coordinator at Victoria Avenue Primary School.

OOKL is now available for the 26 schools that use the Abraham Moss City Learning Centre in North Manchester. 

An interesting paper on mobile learning, published as part of a workshop from the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence Mobile Learning Initiative.

OOKL is described in the context of european research in technology-enhanced learning. Kevin Walker talks about the concept of learning trails, mobile learning topography and learning indoors.

Students from the Girls Day School Trust used OOKL to turn their garden into a shared nature trail. They explain how it works at Stephen Heppel’s Be Very Afraid conference in London