“The safe search facility means that young learners are protected from access to inappropriate material. However, the challenge here is to ensure that searches are not too restrictive and that learners have access to sites such as major news groups and popular social networks particularly as the education sector is still determining how to utilise these sites in an educational context.”

“The education market has long been lagging behind in the use of mobile technology and the Internet. This is an opportunity to incorporate the kind of online interaction learners enjoy socially into their educational lives. There is huge scope for this project which has truly kick-started the College and it’s project partners into exploring the pedagogic use of mobile devices.

This funding we have received from LSN has opened the floodgates to mobile technologies and we are really excited about the possibility of using applications such as geo-blogging, bluetoothing and m-assessment.”

“The Lifewise project has extended and developed previous mobile programmes that have been trialled in Wandsworth. We have engaged more students, more teachers and initiated a real fever for learning by utilising the preferred media of young people to manage and deliver content!”