Never let it be said that we here at Emerge Learning can't laugh at ourselves. To aid the launch of our Emerge X products, we have created a parody style video styled on the recent launch video that Apple released for the iPad. Emerge X offers online based courses that can be used anywhere, anytime. Emerge X also offers classroom based courses for individuals or intact teams. Our courses range from safety training to leadership performance to training for specialized industries and much, much, more.…

How jolly nice of Steve Jobs to select the first day of the Learning Technologies Conference in London, UK as the day to launch the iPad, the latest learning piece of technology. The first day of #LT10UK, as it is tweeted, saw the opening address from Lord Puttnam of movie making fame (Chariots of Fire, The Killing Fields) now turned government tsar of all things learning. He gave a polished and informed delivery which set the tone of the conference. His key message to my ears was a stark warning to educators to educate differently or else. Our rapidly changing world is demanding that young people need to be digitally literate, adaptable, resilient and creative like no other generation before them. And one way that he explains we will do this is by encouraging more education through gaming.