Principals Call for Mobile and Social Technologies in Schools

Interesting article on call by National Association of Secondary School Principals for use of mobile and social media in schools http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/05/23/principals-call-for-mobile-and-social-technologies-in-schools.aspx as always you decide ?

MobiMOOC

Really please to be invited by my fellow mobile learning protagonist Inge De Ward . To be one of the course team on Mobi Mooc Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about mobile learning   . Its a pretty impressive line up if you ignore my inclusion. The details are

Topics and facilitators?
Week 1: Saturday 2 April – 8 April 2011: Introduction to mLearning;
Facilitator: Inge ‘Ignatia’ de Waard

Week 2: Saturday 9 April – 15 April 2011: Planning an mLearning project;
Facilitator: Judy Brown

Week 3: Saturday 16 April – 22 April 2011: Mobile for development (m4D);
Facilitators: Niall Winters and Yishay Mor

Week 4: Saturday 23 – 29 April 2011: Leading edge innovations in mLearning;
Facilitator: David Metcalf

Week 5: Saturday 30 – 6 May 2011: Interaction between mobile learning and a mobile connected society;
Facilitator: John Traxler

Week 6: Saturday 7 – 13 May 2011: mLearning in k12;
Facilitator: Andy Black


What really cool is the MOOC concept Its a Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC.
I've got to say looking forward to it hugely . Great video from Dave Cormier ( his blogs worth a read to !) http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/12/20/moocs-knowledge-and-the-digital-economy-a-research-project/

a website has recently appeared as well http://www.mooc.ca/index.html

Following in the steps of some serious pioneers Stephen Downes, George Siemens, Dave Cornier   .

Dave Cormier has done a great video on success in MOOC 

The whole thing is really challenging the way I think about learning and sharing and putting the message across or more importantly listening to the evolving conversation .

Come and help me out and join the conversation at MobiMooc join the Wiki and the Google group details on the wiki at http://mobimooc.wikispaces.com

THE WORLD IN 2009: ICT FACTS AND FIGURES:A decade of ICT growth driven by mobile technologies

Report from international telecoms union if you had any doubts that the world is mobile read this report http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/material/Telecom09_flyer.pdf

lots of detailsbut high level stuff along with mobile subscriptions still growing at 15%

-Mobile cellular has been the most rapidly adopted technology in history.Today it is the most popular and widespread personal technology on the
planet, with an estimated 4.6 billion subscriptions globally by the end of 2009
-Mobile broadband subscriptions overtook fixed broadband subscribers in
2008, highlighting the huge potential for the mobile Internet
-In 2009, more than a quarter of the world’s population are using the Internet

worth a read a look at the tables .

Shift Happens 4.0 The digital media reconvergence remix

Karl Fisch
 shift happens video first produced in a few years ago.
This isnt hte original but is an early version

was one of the 1st ed tech related youtube video phenomena that went viral read the story at this wikki http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/History+of+the+Presentation the blog related post here

Karl recently was asked to allow a version of the video called did you know 4.0 The digtial convergence remix to be produced this is the result . Love the idea or hate it still worth a look !

The future is a foreign land or is it ?? Its definitely mobile now I wonder whose been banging on about that ! If you now get it welcome to the world the mobile world!

Mobile camps in Africa , lead to new generation of mobile developers

The bar camp so popular in Europe has taken a novel twist and appeared in Africa. Mobile camps may be building the next generation of mobile programmers by helping to develop a new field of study in African higher education. Recent camps have produced tools for social development and provided educators with new skills. interesting becuase the next billion users of the internet are likely to access it through mobiles devices .

http://mobileactive.org/mobile-camps-africa-bringing-next-generation-mobile-programmers

worth a look at the article.

Twitter,Facebook and SMS on TED

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

it makes me think how new media like twitter,facebook and not so new txt (AKA SMS) is a powerful tool . As I face my up and coming challenge http://momlejog.blogspot.com/ http://www.justgiving.com/andyblack1 and look at ways of keeping friends,supporters family informed while highly mobile on a bike . This is a flippant example but the parrallels between complex political situation and my own personal challenge are to me very marked .

Whays interesting even on election day which network was turned off interupted first the sms network interesting eh !!

Proffessional Teacher Magazine Mobiles in secondary

Article highlighting the work funded by becta grant on mobiles in Secondary carried out by Elizabeth Hartnell Young ex Nottingham University http://www.tda.gov.uk/upload/resources/pdf/p/professional_teacher_summer09.pdf

No comment but worth a read . I get a name check but actually others work.

Using mobile phones in field your views required

worth a look and please contribute see presentation below and comment at http://geodonn.blogspot.com

Over the Air 2009

The date for over the air 2009 appears to be emerging likely date is 25/26th September.

Its not on there blog yet http://overtheair.org/blog/ what is over the air simply its a

"Bringing together developers, designers, hackers and entrepreneurs to explore the exciting future of wireless and mobile devices/applications."

Want to learn/experience spoken French look at Madame Thomas youtube channel

For those of a MFL frame of mind or just interested in use of YouTube for education. This teacher has over 400 films made by herself or her students .

http://www.youtube.com/user/MadameThomas

Little Brother's iPhone is watching you

interesting take on things . institution owned devices but with a twist Japanese example from  Aoyama Gakuin University, located just outside Tokyo.

http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45018&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#

M-posium

Great synopsis of last weeks Learner Higher CETL M-posium at Manchester Metropolitain University  article by Bob Harrison on Merlin John Online . Great contributors if you ignore my efforts.

http://www.agent4change.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=319:mobile-learning-warning-for-schools-m-posium&catid=65:conferences&Itemid=194

Stanford University's iPhone development course free online

I thought this might be of interest to who are interested in learning to develop for the iPhone, particularly those non-corporate folks (e.g. students etc) who are on lower budgets.

Stanford University have just started a new taught iPhone development class
this semester and are putting it all up on iTunesU for free (at the same speed
as the course is taught), and some of the material is available on the
ordinary website.

More details here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

Hopefully this will prove to be a quality addition to Apple's developer
materials. An iPhone/iPod Touch is not essential for the course by the way.

Also, if you're looking at getting into iPhone development and don't have the
budget for the Mac hardware, this page has links to several tutorials enabling
OSX on PC hardware:
http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-ipod-touch-sdk-development-discussion/194881-official-iphone-sdk-windows-2.html
Obviously you'll need a legitimate copy of OSX too 

Slideshare goes mobile

Slideshare has gone mobile view presentation on your mobile device hurrah another good "M" tool . http://m.slideshare.com excellent News thanks to Thomas Cochrane in New Zealand for this.

following COSN conference in Austin Texas via twitter

Well I know Vanessa Pittard presented our web 2.00 work commissioned in UK schools by Becta at the Consortium fro School Networking Schools conference in the USA but other presentations are there as well .

http://www.k12schoolnetworking.org/2009/index.cfm they are also running a twitter feed http://twitter.com/CoSN

Worth following you can find conference programme here
Full conference programme can be downloaded here

some UK flavoured ones


Stephen Lucey of Becta presented on
TH501: UK Leadership: Home Connection and
Innovation Strategies


Another UK prsentation by
W306: Integrating SMS for education – the
European experience
MR412
Steve Sidaway, Sales & Marketing Director, txttools.co.uk,
Leeds, UK
Mobile phones are now universally available and accepted.
They are transforming how students interact and with each
other, with organizations and with ideas, and this is only the
beginning. The technology is there but each university, college
and school must explore and experiment with what it can do
for them and their students. This presentation will draw case
examples from one of the largest education message
communities in Europe.

Long way away but whats distance with technology anyhow.

Ahead by a red nose Gamesbased Learning 2009

Hi all

Due to change of circumstance I am now able to attend Gamesbased Learning 2009 with is the 19th-20th March at the Brewery in London .

The organisers have done great things for red Nose day (thats tomorrow) if you register tomorrow they will donate £50.00 to the red nose day charity youve got to use the code rednose when booking. Good on you Graham ;-)

The two day conference the first day having loads of good practice from real people in show ! The second day has some real industry heavyweights and the God Derek (DS) Robertson form learning and teaching scotland .

Download the programme here

Register here

View confirmed speakers here

what made my heart leap was this phrase encouraging young people (maybe the real experts). Please note we are also keen to include young people at the event and registered delegates are welcome to bring a student 16 years or younger with them. School parties are also welcome by arrangement. Please contact us here.

Looking forward to it Ive also added link to the conference website on my blogroll on the left.

Children’s Use of Mobile Phones – An International Comparison

worth a read

Children’s Use of Mobile Phones – An International Comparison
To gain a better understanding of how children use their mobile phones across the world, the GSMA has collaborated with NTT DoCoMo on research comparing children’s use of mobile phones. The report “Children’s Use of Mobile Phones – An International Comparison” was published in February 2009 with NTT DoCoMo’s Mobile Society Research Institute (MSRI), with support from KT Freetel (KTF). It compares mobile phone use by children in five countries - Japan, Korea, China, India and Mexico.
Over 6,000 children between the ages of 9 and 18 and their parents were surveyed on a range of questions on their use, attitudes and feelings towards mobile phones.

Whilst the main factor affecting children’s mobile phone ownership is their age (for each additional year in age, an additional 4% of children own a mobile phone), the network effect of friends starting to use mobile phones was also found to be a key trigger for take up of phones by children across all the countries surveyed.

Gender, parental age, parental income and ownership of video games and computers were also found to have an effect on ownership of phones across all the surveyed countries.
Gender - 4% more girls owned a mobile phone than boys, and 9% more girls who did not own a mobile phone wanted to.

• Parental age - the older the parents, the older the children are when they first start to own mobile phones.
• Computers and video games - children owning personal computers and video games are more likely to own mobile phones and start using them at an earlier age.
• Parental Income – the higher their parents’ income, the more likely children are to own a mobile phone.
• Contrary to theories that mobile phones can be an unwelcome distraction for children, the study found no effective correlation between children’s ownership and usage of mobile phones and the time they spent on other activities.

The study also examined children’s attitudes to mobile phones and the ways in which mobiles may influence them. It found that girls, more than boys, view their phones as essential tools in their lives and that children who use mobile e-mail/SMS more frequently tend to show higher levels of trust in new media such as the Internet and slightly reduced trust in traditional media including TV and newspapers.

The full report can be downloaded from the GSMA website at http://www.gsmworld.com/documents/Final_report.pdf

Learning Lab free TXT in education event

other technologies products are available ;-) Now I myself am on jury service but a chance to see Mike Short of O2 do a keynotes got to be worth a shot and its free.

Learning Lab and Edutxt are pleased to announce its one day conference at Priorslee Hall, Telford at the Shropshire Campus of the University of Wolverhampton.

Every student and 98% of parents have a mobile phone capable of sending and receiving SMS text messages. It is undeniably socially and digitally inclusive. Desktop SMS is now being used in hundreds of Universities, Colleges and Schools. This is your opportunity to find out from peers why.

This one day FREE* event is designed to give you an insight into how colleges and universities are utilising this simple technology to dramatically improve the way they communicate with their students and peers.

Learn from people who have been using this technology every day for years Experience practical case examples delivered by users
Understand how you will improve your service to students

Keynote by Mike Short, Vice President of Research and Development O2 register for your FREE* place now at:

Web: http://www.learninglab.org.uk

alternatve link and details here

Students appropriation of technology and new media

Had the pleasure of attending Professor John Cooks inaugural lecture a week or so ago the slides are on slideshare worth a look .

The digitally literate learner and the appropriation of new technologies and media for education

View more presentations from John Cook. (tags: personalised mobile)

http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook/the-digitally-literate-learner-and-the-appropriation-of-new-technologies-and-media-for-education

Becta Emerging Techology New web area

excuse the work related post but this might be of interest to regular readers


Becta are pleased to announce the launch of a new Emerging technology area on the Becta website.

At http://www.becta.org.uk/emergingtechnologies
you will find:

• articles from the Emerging Technologies for Learning series (with a new article published each month)
• TechNews – with new content each week
• key technology trends
• technology research from Becta and elsewhere
• discussion forums
• information on events related to emerging technologies.
  

The area offers new ways of accessing TechNews including RSS feeds and the ability to compile a PDF* document from selectedarticles.

Initial content for the new area is taken
from January 2009 and previous TechNews issues but, from now on content will
appear on the Emerging technology area ahead of the pdf download version being
available.


You can propose research and events for
possible inclusion on the area, and we’re also keen to hear from you if
you have other suggestions or feedback. Via the website.


Please can you distribute this to your own networks