Digital Futures: Innovations in Mobile Learning

Digital Futures//Innovations in Mobile Learning Steve Wheeler @timbuckteeth Plymouth University Sheffield Hallam University, May 28 2012

• social media and informal learning • integrating the use of smart devices • augmented reality/wearable computing • mobile learning research issueshttp://learningputty.com

Can we predict the Future...? “One day every town in America will have a telephone!” ~ U.S. Mayor, (c 1880) www.abebooks.com

“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” - Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.http://thebitchywaiter.blogspot.com/

The Future...? Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University, 2012• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’• 2009: ‘The future is smart mobile’hof.povray.org

The first mobile phone

The ‘brick’http://www.xianet.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/first-mobile-phone.jpg

Multimedia brought the world into the classroom... Smart technologies will take the classroom into the world.www.canada.com

“We are becoming distributed beings.Mobile makes the trend more explicit.”- Mark Curtis (2005)

Source: Kelly Hodgkins http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet

So Me use >260 Million >90 Million >4 Billion views/day >60 hours/minute Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com

Worldwide ownership of mobile phones5.9 Billion mobile accounts = 87% of population http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med_mob_pho-media-mobile-phones

Mobile game based learning http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-mobile-gaming-statistics-stats-2011/

Connectedhttp://i.imwx.com cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010

Personaldevices andmobilelearning http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/3778408_ecdaec0dae.jpg

Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are acknowledged

We are familyhttp://pro.corbis.com

Wii are family! http://wiifitnessdepot.com

BYOD - Personal technologies http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg

Is the future of learning non-touch? http://www.csmonitor.com

images.businessweek.com1: The phone app2: The ‘wearable’

Coloured caps Camera Projector Coloured caps MirrorPhone blogs.fayobserver.com MIT’s “Sixth Sense” Wearable...

Web meets World Camera Mobile phone Haptic GPS Mash-upProjector QR codes Personalised 3-D Geotagging Communication Geomapping Navigation Video Bar codes Browser Ambient http://www.hearty-india.com/2011/06/pranav-mistry-real-sixth-sense-genius.html

Natural user interfaces Non touch systems Gestural interaction Speech to textFacial feature recognition http://xenophilius.files.wordpress.com

Intuitive handheld devicesNatural gesture interface Connection to my learning network Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/

Social issueshttp://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/may05/slope_photos.html

Digital cultural capital “Where digital communication has fractured the tyranny of distance and computers have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation has become the new cultural capital”. -Wheeler (2009)http://www.coreideas.com.au/

Public performance “The mobile phone ... Is a new kind of stage where the mobile information society is acted out.” - Puro (2002)http://www.mopocket.com/

Moblogging Blogging on the move to capture images, sounds, experiences http://www.lifehack.org

The social distance between people on the mobile stage is small, but the emotional bond may be weak. [The] mobile phone ... may increase contact, but also increase loneliness. (Puro, 2002)http://blog.jammer-store.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cell-phone-movie.jpg

“Defending the space within which onewould like to isolate one’s voice.”- Leopoldina Fortunati http://atomictoasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/cell-phone-booth.jpg

Literacy issuesIs language being dumbed down?

Competition to write the Lord’s Prayer in <160 charactersr pa in evan, respect 2 u, may urain ear as in evan. giv us rneeds, 4giv r sin as we 4giv rnmes. resq us from the evil 1. 4ur always the most xlent dude.yo

Evolution of Language “The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong....There’s a new kind of ethos now.” http://www.utsa.edu David Crystal

Squeeze txt and literacy“Mobile phones are forcing children to become more literate. Without the ability to txt, theycannot fully participate in their own culture of communication” Peter Yeomans (2010)

Managing identity reputationlanguage images name interaction personal data identityreputation images privacy privacy legacy netiquetteavatar images interaction reputation name

Technology issues• Screen size of most devices makes it difficult for users to go through a lot of content• Connectivity and bandwidth issues• Concern for content security• Difficulty in integrating devices to LMSs• High costs of designing programs compatible with different devices. Source: http://edudemic.com/2012/05/how-to-develop-your-own-mobile-learning-tools/

Neutral technologies? http://www.oldukphotos.com

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

Pedagogy issues 1.Design for the device 2.Keep it simple, keep it smart 3.Immediate and revisitableSource: http://www.saffroninteractive.com

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

Learning is changinghttp://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

Community as curriculum

“How cantechnology make http://www.global-images.neta person better?Only in this way:by providing eachperson with http://www.global-images.netchances.”- Kevin Kelly

Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk Plymouth University, United Kingdom This work is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: International Licence.

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