The New Smart Devices for Learning
Pranoy Luis
The Future...?
One day every town in America will have a telephone!
~ U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)
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The Future...?
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1989: The future is multi-media 1999: The future is the Web 2009: The future is smart mobile
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Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...
Smart technologies will take the classroom into the world.
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Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...
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We are family
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Wii are family!
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Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
http://arts.anu.edu.au
~ Paulo Friere
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~ Dave Cormier
www.aaceconnect.org
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The present speed of information based on new technologies has undermined traditional expert driven processes of knowledge development and dissemination.
Formal and Informal learning
Formal Learning Informal Learning
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Self organised learning
Formal Learning Informal Learning
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Self Organised Learning
In SOL students take responsibility for their own learning and put this into successful action.
Source: http://www.equal-works.com
~ George Siemens
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Source: www.connectivism.ca/
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We simply have too much information and we cant make sense of it all. It changes too quickly.
Personal Web Tools
Generating Content
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Sharing Content
Organising Content
Personal Web Tools
Generating Content
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Communication
Sharing Content
Organising Content
E-Learning 3.0
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1. Distributed (Cloud) Computing 2. Extended Smart Mobile Technology 3. Collaborative Intelligent Filtering 4. 3D Visualisation and Interaction
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~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee
www.topnews.in
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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
Virtuality Continuum
Adapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005) cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010
Continuous spectrum from the completely real (Reality) to the completely virtual (Virtual Reality).
Real World
Virtual World
Web meets World
Web meets World
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Camera
Mobile phone
GPS Mash-up Projector Personalised
Haptic
QR codes
Communication
3-D
Geotagging Geomapping Navigation
Video
Bar codes
Browser
Ambient
Virtuality Continuum
Adapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005) cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010
Real World
Augmented Reality
Augmented Virtuality
Virtual World
Mixed Reality
Virtuality Continuum
Adapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005) cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010
the virtual augments the real
the real augments the virtual
Real World
Augmented Reality
Augmented Virtuality
Virtual World
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1: The phone app 2: The wearable
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Augmented reality is when technology recognises what you are doing and then enhances it. AR apps add information to the world around us.
Source: www.geeks.co.uk
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Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.
www.winandmac.com
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As you move your mobile phone camera, so the overlays change to represent information relevant to the scene before you.
truliablog.com
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Find the nearest tube station...
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www.guardian.co.uk
Natural Born Cyborgs?
www.guardian.co.uk paradox2101.fw.hu
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Augmented Virtuality is when you interact with your computer using objects in the physical world.
Find the nearest Tube Station...
Coloured caps Camera
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Projector Coloured caps Mirror
Phone
blogs.fayobserver.com
MITs 6th Sense Wearable...
ambient.media.mit.edu
...enables you to take pictures using the framing gesture
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ambient.media.mit.edu
...enables you to take pictures using the framing gesture and manipulate documents with natural gestures...
chi2009.org
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...will project onto any surface...
www.labnol.org
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...including your hand.
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...or your students!
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Virtuality Continuum
Where they fit in to the continuum...
Layar, Pathfinder
6th Sense
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Real World
Augmented Reality
Augmented Virtuality
Virtual World
Some possible smart tech uses
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Informal, self organised learning Problem based learning Group based activities Outdoor learning Independent study Distance learning Blended learning
Some issues with Smart Devices
Personalised learning? Connectivity Choosing a device Learning how to use it Learning what it can be used for Bandwidth availability
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Thank you
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