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the iPhone & handheld learning
handheldlearning2008

Dr i Kyle Dickson
Scholar in Residence · Adams Center
for Teaching & Learning
Associate Professor of English
Dri Bill Rankin
Scholar in Residence · Adams Center
for Teaching & Learning
Associate Professor of English

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on the other hand…
“ What a crock. It’s nothing more than an advertising
ploy […]. An iPod isn’t a tool and neither, frankly, is
an iPhone […]. They are toys. Gadgets. Goodies. And
nothing more. ACU is wasting resources for the sake
of novelty. That, dear parents, is what your hard
earned money is going for when you pack your kids
up and send them off to Abilene. Makes you feel all
warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it, to know your kids will be
listening to their new iPod and chatting it up on their
new iPhone instead of hitting the books.
”

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identity
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technology

handheld
learning

a beneficial technology…
high portability & accessibility
disperses information quickly
allows for synchronous & asynchronous access
welcomes new participants
promotes & enhances dialogue
promotes community formation

a detrimental technology…
promotes distraction
reflects a loss of control over information
reflects a loss of control over distribution
challenges traditional systems & ideals
requires new systems of organisation, access,
& distribution and obsolesces old ones
provides access to a quantity of information
that is quickly overwhelming

the printed book

seeing
culture

student learning trends…
grassroots video
collaboration webs
mobile broadband
data mashups
collective intelligence
social operating systems
The Horizon Report. 2008. ISBN 0-9765087-6-1. <www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EDU07296.pdf>.

student technology trends…
80
mobility 68.9
Laptops 70 62.8 75.8
Desktops 68.3 58.1
60
50
52.8
40
14.8
connectedness 15.00
12.1
Smartphones 10.4
11.25
PDAs
7.50 10.1
7.8
3.75
0
1.2
media richness 80.0
Media Devices 74.7
55.0
60.1
30.0
37.0 2005 2006 2007
“The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2007” (vol. 6). <www.educause.edu/ecar>.

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learning goals…
social & communal interdependencies
student-centric content & activities
classrooms “lose their walls”
anytime / anyplace learning
participatory learning

learning paradigms…
Collaborative
Engaged Distributed
Connected
Evaluative Integrated

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“...[I]f a new technology
extends one or more of
our senses outside us
into the social world
[….] then what had
appeared lucid before
may suddenly become
opaque, and what had
been vague or opaque
will become
translucent.”
M. McLuhan, e Gutenberg Galaxy: e Making of Typographic Man,1962

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Q&A
Kyle Dickson · dicksonk@acu.edu
James Langford · langford@acu.edu
Bill Rankin · rankinw@acu.edu
George Saltsman · saltsman@acu.edu