Nintendo and Apple support the Handheld Learning Conference headlined by Sex Pistols founder and 70s-80s style guru.

First we see John ‘Johnny Rotten’ Lydon advertising English butter, now Malcolm McLaren is promoting 21st Century learning and teaching methods for our children. It’s a far cry from Anarchy in the UK, but we’re desperate for leaders right now.

Malcolm McLaren is the headline speaker at the global education forum taking place from 5-7 October in London. He’ll be addressing more than 1,500 delegates at the annual Handheld Learning Conference, hoping to shed light on the use of mobile computing and other technologies among young people.

"Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict”, says McLaren. “We are, in effect, living through a form of chaos and this must surely affect the way in which we teach a generation unlike any before. A generation for whom music, film and television aren't the staples of their media experience, where immediate access to information, communication and entertainment is expected and where our schooling systems with their league tables, curriculums and outmoded assessments fail to nurture the creative innovators upon which our future depends."

More details on the conference can be found here: http://www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com