Wireless and mobile computing: pedagogy and liberal education NITLE workshop April 2007 College of Wooster

Plan of the session Hardware Infrastructure Case studies Pedagogies emergent http://www.phonebashing.com/ , 2003 (previous image: “Telezonia”)

Plan of the session

Hardware

Infrastructure

Case studies

Pedagogies emergent

One way of looking at it All of Web 2.0, just more so Ambient Accelerating Annotating Funeral of John Paul, AP

All of Web 2.0, just more so

Ambient

Accelerating

Annotating

I. Hardware Wireless computing uses the radio spectrum, rather than telephone or ethernet cables, to send digital information. The name hearkens back to the earliest days of radio, and appropriately, since wireless computing is very much a young field.

Wireless computing uses the radio spectrum, rather than telephone or ethernet cables, to send digital information. The name hearkens back to the earliest days of radio, and appropriately, since wireless computing is very much a young field.

I. Hardware (Mandatory mobile device slide)

(Mandatory mobile device slide)

I. Hardware (Yet another mandatory mobile device slide) Long., MPH, ksmichel

(Yet another mandatory mobile device slide)

I. Hardware (Still another mandatory mobile device slide) Tnkgrl

(Still another mandatory mobile device slide)

I. Hardware (How many mandatory mobile device slides can there be?) Carl Berger, Wei Su

(How many mandatory mobile device slides can there be?)

II. Infrastructure 802.11x and Wi-Fi (IEEE) Proprietary Cellular-Wireless Networks WiMax

802.11x and Wi-Fi (IEEE)

Proprietary Cellular-Wireless Networks

WiMax

II. Infrastructure PAN: Personal Area Networks Bluetooth: short-range wireless specification Infrared (IR) ports for beaming

PAN: Personal Area Networks

Bluetooth: short-range wireless specification

Infrared (IR) ports for beaming

(Found on BBC site, June 2005) American unilateralism

(Found on BBC site, June 2005)

III. Case studies Pedagogies: new forms John Schott, Carleton College, 2006

Pedagogies: new forms

III. Cases Handhelds in class: Stanford Medical classes, East Carolina University's Center for Wireless and Mobile Computing, medical school, OWLS, UM Duluth's handheld pilot, Western Carolina University - Wireless Palm (TLT report), Pittsburgh Pebbles Project; University of South Dakota.

Handhelds in class: Stanford Medical classes, East Carolina University's Center for Wireless and Mobile Computing, medical school, OWLS, UM Duluth's handheld pilot, Western Carolina University - Wireless Palm (TLT report), Pittsburgh Pebbles Project; University of South Dakota.

III. Cases Handhelds out of class Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam Real Time: SPINlab's GIPSY project St. Olaf's Japanese language Clie pilot ( http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/asian-studies/japanese/handheldarticle.html ) Jokkmokk 2004 (HUMlab)

Handhelds out of class

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam Real Time: SPINlab's GIPSY project

St. Olaf's Japanese language Clie pilot ( http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/asian-studies/japanese/handheldarticle.html )

Jokkmokk 2004 (HUMlab)

III. Cases Handhelds and libraries: University of Connecticut Medical Library, Virginia Commonwealth Libraries, British libraries.

Handhelds and libraries: University of Connecticut Medical Library, Virginia Commonwealth Libraries, British libraries.

III. Cases Campus clouds: American University's wireless campus, Carnegie Mellon's Wireless Andrew, Dartmouth's wireless campus, Seton Hall University ( http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/dartmouth.html , http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2002/05/52234 , http://www.cmu.edu/computing/wireless/ )

Campus clouds: American University's wireless campus, Carnegie Mellon's Wireless Andrew, Dartmouth's wireless campus, Seton Hall University

( http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/dartmouth.html , http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2002/05/52234 , http://www.cmu.edu/computing/wireless/ )

III. Cases Students researching SUNY Cortland's nature research. Tremont Consolidated's clam research with Palms ( http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2002/11/56102 ) Experience has shown that portable and wireless computing facilitates data collection, which has certain pedagogical implications. Students have greater facilities for gathering information from the field, thereby. Field researchers can be better integrated with classes (with each other, instructors, experts) through wireless communication:

Students researching

SUNY Cortland's nature research.

Tremont Consolidated's clam research with Palms ( http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2002/11/56102 )

Experience has shown that portable and wireless computing facilitates data collection, which has certain pedagogical implications. Students have greater facilities for gathering information from the field, thereby. Field researchers can be better integrated with classes (with each other, instructors, experts) through wireless communication:

III. Cases Cell phones: bioinformatics on the run (BioWAP and WiGiD); Russian Bible class ( Pravda 2004-12, http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/11765_phone.html )

Cell phones: bioinformatics on the run (BioWAP and WiGiD); Russian Bible class ( Pravda 2004-12, http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/11765_phone.html )

III. Cases iPaqs, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2002 uses in class: notetaking, .ppt slides, exercises, polling, reference uses outside of class: browsing, email, software ( http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/computing/ipaq/ )

iPaqs, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2002

uses in class: notetaking, .ppt slides, exercises, polling, reference

uses outside of class: browsing, email, software

( http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/computing/ipaq/ )

IV. Pedagogies Emergent pedagogies Information on demand Time usage changes Class/world barrier reduction Personal intimacy with units Spatial mapping Mobile, multimedia, social research

Emergent pedagogies

Information on demand

Time usage changes

Class/world barrier reduction

Personal intimacy with units

Spatial mapping

Mobile, multimedia, social research

IV. Pedagogies Students researching Googling on demand Local digital resources Queries to colleagues, experts, dbs, faculty, librarians Spatial mapping

Students researching

Googling on demand

Local digital resources

Queries to colleagues, experts, dbs, faculty, librarians

Spatial mapping

IV. Pedagogies Pedagogy: learning spaces classroom one leading pilot space for wireless arrangements mode: lecture/lab campus other sites: library, residence hall new learning spaces chunks of campus

Pedagogy: learning spaces

classroom

one leading pilot space for wireless

arrangements

mode: lecture/lab

campus

other sites: library, residence hall

new learning spaces

chunks of campus

IV. Pedagogies Pedagogy: learning spaces external world increasingly reachable, present world as syllabus, research field annotated space writing to removed units writing to space, augmenting reality (classic: Spohrer's "Information in Places") spatial information: (34 North 118 West /, )

Pedagogy: learning spaces

external world

increasingly reachable, present

world as syllabus, research field

annotated space

writing to removed units

writing to space, augmenting reality (classic: Spohrer's "Information in Places")

spatial information: (34 North 118 West /, )

Pedagogy: learning spaces, example Volokh Conspiracy, April 2007

Pedagogy: learning spaces, example

IV. Pedagogies emergent Publishing Synching MP3 player, Palm, PocketPC, etc. user to copy materials from a desktop or laptop to their handhelds (AvantGo, Mazingo, PalmReader, Acrobat for Palm, Fictionwise (free ebooks), Microtitles, Peanut Press, SciFi.com, Writing on Your Palm) USB drives allow easy, person-to-person file trading. Their low price and good size makes them a publishing option.

Publishing

Synching MP3 player, Palm, PocketPC, etc. user to copy materials from a desktop or laptop to their handhelds (AvantGo, Mazingo, PalmReader, Acrobat for Palm, Fictionwise (free ebooks), Microtitles, Peanut Press, SciFi.com, Writing on Your Palm)

USB drives allow easy, person-to-person file trading. Their low price and good size makes them a publishing option.

IV. Pedagogies emergent Publishing applications Palm Education offers more than one hundred educational applications. Nearspace has released several campus life applications. ( http:// www.nearspace.com / ) One can roll one's own, as well. For example, UMDuluth wrote applications for its Pocket PC pilot. K-12 applications: Cooties, Geney

Publishing applications

Palm Education offers more than one hundred educational applications. Nearspace has released several campus life applications. ( http:// www.nearspace.com / )

One can roll one's own, as well. For example, UMDuluth wrote applications for its Pocket PC pilot.

K-12 applications: Cooties, Geney

IV. Pedagogies emergent Multitasking threats: distraction, wandering (NYT article abstract) index/stimulus (ECAR study, Slashdot discussion) generational issue practice: shells down, machines open

Multitasking

threats: distraction, wandering (NYT article abstract)

index/stimulus (ECAR study, Slashdot discussion)

generational issue

practice: shells down, machines open

IV. Pedagogies emergent Structural pressures IT: support, pedagogy Faculty: pedagogy, development, reward Students: class participation Library: information literacy, db access Administration: planning

Structural pressures

IT: support, pedagogy

Faculty: pedagogy, development, reward

Students: class participation

Library: information literacy, db access

Administration: planning

IV. Pedagogies Social changes Swarming: John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (2001) Smartmobs (Howard Rheingold, 2001)

Social changes

Swarming: John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (2001)

Smartmobs (Howard Rheingold, 2001)