Is the future mobile?
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Presenter
Graham Brown-Martin
Graham Brown-Martin is the founder of Learning Without Frontiers (LWF), a disruptive think tank focused on new ideas for learning and teaching practice leading to improvements of a transformational nature. LWF hosts online communities, international conferences and publishes content for international thought leaders, innovators and practitioners in the education, technology and entertainment sectors. LWF also operates a number of programmes to identify and celebrate innovative talent.
Prior to LWF Graham has enjoyed a career spanning the educational technology and entertainment software industries, having built a number of creatively and technologically innovative enterprises that were sold to larger corporations including Philips Electronics and Virgin Interactive. Graham has also worked in several developing nations.
Aside from his work and entrepreneurship in technology, Graham has also directed music videos for The Fall, Malcolm McLaren, Salt Tank and Future Sound of London amongst others and with artist, Buggy G Riphead, he designed the ship’s computer for the feature film, “Lost in Space”.
Graham has also appeared in numerous publications and media including The Times Educational Supplement, Libération, The Assignment, Trace, Transculturalism, the BBC Money Programme, The Guardian, Management Today and The Times.
Graham has 4 children and lives in a leafy enclave between Peckham and Deptford in South-East London, UK.
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Facilitator
Diane Brewster
Diane has recently finished her role as the Learning Facilitator in the Creativity Zone at the University of Sussex, part of InQbate; the CETL in Creativity, and is involved in the ongoing dissemination of outputs from that project. She is currently working as an Associate lecturer for the OU, teaching a second level Systems course, and as an Education Consultant. Diane has been a member of the JISC Teaching and Learning Practice Experts group for the past 5 years.
Diane started her teaching career in the late 70's teaching humanities at secondary level, followed by 4yrs cross curriculum teaching in a unit for children not in school and 8 yrs teaching for Birkbeck College (London). She was an early adopter of new technologies, a growing interest in which culminated in being asked to help 'kit out' and support the technology for a start up company in the City. During the 6 yrs working for this company she did a "career change" BSc with the OU. This was followed by an MSc in Human Centred Computer Systems at Sussex and a DPhil. Her doctoral research looked at the issues of disruption and failure in Technology Enhanced Learning in the light of Diana Laurillard's Conversational Framework. A major part of the empirical work for this was done within the context of mobile technologies.