Over the last ten years, smartphones and tablets and pervasive Internet connectivity have taken over our lives, and more importantly the lives of our children. In this talk for Loughborough University's 2018 Learning and Teaching conference I reflect on how higher education could respond to this trend. I invite the audience to consider what children who have always had access to the sum total of human knowledge will will expect and need from universities in the future, and how we might best support learners from disadvantaged backgrounds to thrive

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Martin Hamilton
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2. Keep taking the tablets?
1. The very hungry smartphone
2. Ambient knowledge
3. Future present
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3. About Jisc
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https://www.jisc.ac.uk/
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/student-
digital-experience-tracker

4. About Jisc
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https://www.jisc.ac.uk/training/digital-leaders-
programme
http://www.thestickycampus.com/

5. 1.The very hungry smartphone
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6. The iPad generation ?
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7. The phone that ate everything
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https://www.ft.com/content/1efb95ba-d852-
11e6-944b-e7eb37a6aa8e

8. Tool builders or tool users ?
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9. Tool builders or tool users ?
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10. Tool builders or tool users ?
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11. 2. Ambient knowledge
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12. Ambient knowledge
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13. Ambient knowledge
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14. Fact from fiction ?
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15. Fact from fiction ?
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16. Data vandalism
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17. Data vandalism
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18. 3. Future present
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19. Artificial Intelligence
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20. Artificial Intelligence
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21. Augmented &Virtual Reality
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Follow JiscAR/VR work at:
http://innovativetechnology.jiscinvolve.org/

22. Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with
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23. Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with
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24. Brain computer interfaces
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25. UK spaceports are go for launch!
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26. Wrapping up
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Closing memes:
» We’re all tool users, but we won’t all be tool builders
» Helping our learners (and staff!) to tell fact from fiction
online is increasingly important
» Our institutions have an important role to play in
embedding and defending progressive values
» New technologies will make it possible to cheat in new
ways, but that doesn’t mean we should ban them
» Novel technologies likeAI, AR/VR and brain computer
interfaces will give us teaching and learning
superpowers…
» …complementing rather than competing with world
class facilities like STEMLab
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27. Continue the conversation…
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