Leon Cych of http://www.L4L.co.uk interviews Dan Sutch of Futurelab in the UK.

Fizzees - Physical Electronic Energisers) is a prototype project that enables young people to care for a ‘digital pet’ through their own physical actions. In order to nurture their digital pet, keep it healthy and grow, young people must themselves act in physically healthy ways.

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Createascape - Dan talks about the concept of Mediascapes which are a collection of location-sensitive sounds and images that are placed in local landscapes that can then be experienced via a PDA hand-held computer and headphones.

Both projects highlight the real to virtual and vice versa - the augmentation of reality and the extensibility of real life by use of mobile devices. As Dan points out when talking about the Futurelab publication What if in the context of BSF - these devices can be used to extend and augment the built environment already there or enable the learner to move among the landscape in different imaginative scenarios freeing them up from traditional learning spaces. Less