The looking forward bit !!

I unusually have been thinking a lot this week before blogging Staring down the barrel of BETT next week. My busiest week of the year.

Then along came a comment from IslayIan to my previous post

"Here's to excitement and the future.
Now how do we get the majority of teachers to 'get it?"

Few thoughts

1. learners are changing kids aren't at heart but they way they learn and consume information I think is .
   
2. Parents/carers whatever the age are becoming more comfortable with technology be that with
   
   1. Internet shopping
      
   2. Gaming the Wii Nintendo effect
      
   3. Digital photography
      
   4. The ipod MP3 phenomena
      
   5. The whole phone phenomena, SMS,camera phones
      

How to get teachers to get it.

The kit bit (wake up guys and girls its here or arriving soon.

Robust networks and kit well I reckon if your not obsessed with the latest shiniest we are there and the like ASUSEeePc numerous media rich laptops,umpc's are getting us closer

The blogging learners as creators of content as well consumers it's a mixed economy stupid !!

The whole MP3 podcasting thing thanks to £6.00 MP3 players and the Ipods be it nano's touches or Iphones of this world

Plus those other so called gadgets

The creativity bit

Yes learners produce and consume rubbish in the media scape but they also produce stunning stuff!! But with intervention of teachers ( to Make Derek Robertson of Learning and Teaching Scotland smile) teachers learners can work together to co create co construct and co-review great material to help scaffold and enhance their learning .

Teachers need space to practice and comfort in support for what they are doing

The curriculum might need to change but for obvious reasons I leave you to make your own mind up.

Stop worrying

The world is changing and in many respects the best people to help us oldies get our heads round it are learners themselves .

How to you broadcast share good practise and appraise failure that's the challenge . The challenge is now one of creativity I think the the access to technology at a basic level is nw a utility that staff can expect learners demand and be warned parents are going to start asking searching questions if its not available.

Hang on cutting edge learning in 2008 is going to be :-
1) Mobile to a point of being pervasive .
2) Context and location aware
3) Device seamless or even agnostic
4) Collaborative and contextual while allowing individuals multiple persona

So strap in its going to be exciting .As a geographer the whole location aware thing is going to be awesome

This might be wrong but as you all know what matters is not what you predict but what you miss !

Complet rubbish or do you have alternative views t you want to post and BTW adding Islayians blog to my blogroll

Afternoon day two Handheld learning Emerging pedagogy's

really great session

Kevin Walker London Knowledge lab
Hilary Smith Sussex University

looking at model of mixed device and mixed methods of contacts online on-phone at distance. Looking at ecologicial model of pedagogy
work on e-science and usability with a range of devices

refection on pedagogy
ecology of resources spread around in time and space and intelligent (distributed) systems
focus on activities and structures
works on a basis on how you structure the activities not the technology .

• idea of trails scripts role and context and construction(ism)
• technology as a mediator

Methodologies

• activites not outcomes
• special attention language and conversation
  
• technology can help
• caputure products of learning
  
• caputring contextual information

Jocelyn Wishart
"C"s (seize) the moment engaging with theory and pedagogy of m-learning

Looking at this from learners perspective. Mobile devices

Control
nobody is threatened by small device
mobile devices allow learners to be in control of what there goals

Constructivisms
enthused power of package sketchy as animation tool to help learning.
teachers use jotting feature in PDA's

Conversational learning

device as communicational channel discussion around recorded collected stored information . outlined work of the CTL at London Met (john cook and team)


Challenge,Curisoity and Complexity
Bruners work on teh will to learn consists of:

• curiosity and
• the drive to achieve competence

talked of experience of engaging software with learners using wild key,sumsonline and sketchy .

Confidence
PDA's evoke more confidence than large monolithic static devices.
talked of work with older nurses and young learners

Context
Mobile devices power in collecting field data . placing learning in the context it was learnt

Collaboration
either via device or the device is small enough not to interfere with debate

CONCLUSIONS
- building concepts into software activities
- answer not clear cut developed by researchers from different backgrounds a web network great diagram

questions
does Jocelyns model need a

• r "reflection"
• p "predicting"

Karin Andersson of Malmo University and Dale Hinch of Edexcel
Augmenting pen and paper to support creative collaboration in education
looking at digital pens and papers and novel display techniques

case studeis

musseums activty sheets
Augmented text book by pearson

also involved with goldsmiths e-scape project
escape use of paper activity and rapid prototyping in design and technolgy .
making it possible to

• genrate ideas
• develop ideas
• prove ideas
  

approach used in two phases

• during project exam
  
• during build up work.

Paper works
looked at using digital pen instead of the pda doodling drawing planning on a paper but results being stored and date stamped electronically

John Traxler society education technology and learning heading towards 2012
talk of convergence and divergence of device / most successful devices PSP ipod are specialsed.
Miniaturisation leading to very small specialized devices
embedding ie internet fridges

talked of flashmobs

technology maybe important and moving but changes in society are impacting on teaching and learning as well as mobile device .

talked of citizen journlistss around july 7th bombing

also talked of sociability of mobile device and how it is changing communication . talked of literature perpetual content (google this) .

Context awareness tracking children by sms and mobile phone serive
RFID tagging locating pets or prisoners.

Conservation and dialogue changing due to mobile technologies

Changes to knowledge

• easy and convenient
• chunked structured differently
• consumed differently
• Anywhere/anytime
• justin time/just for me
  

finished with tom browns work ex pretoria university looked at e-learning versus m-learning

Mark Van Hooft
Ubiquitous computing in education, creating 21st Century Learners


looking at the conflicts and tensions with rise of mobile device and hows they conflict with current educational practice

• collaboration
• learning in context
  
• mobile technologies also on the person

mentioned skill of learners to focus impact of using technolgy
learning in an upredicable contexts

finally "do or do not,there is no try." the impact of small projects rather than large scale bigger pcture.
how education can change in systematic ways to help equip learners for the future.

google reference by henry jenkins


Bob Harrison

did his excellent non navel gazing approach the role of mobile technologies in delivering the personalisation agenda .

the balanced look at the challenges that policy makers must address issues that the technology advances bring into everyday life and every school and every home.


Patt Gibbs Marie Jourbet Gibbs brsitol university the graduate school of education
seeing the the detail a up close view of learning using personal dvices.

look at how the impact on learners of mobile projects in Wolverhampton and Bristol .

• What happened to teachers learners when devices entered there lives
• making sense complex story
  
• are we seeing a pedagogic shift
  

looking a school visit using wildkey software on a Bristol school field trip to forest of dean . Really interesting video clips with researcher teasing out what learners are doing while identifying mini beast . interesting reflection on how teachers can help learners scaffold the learning with materials or collected evidence on the device.

Second video telling or retelling a story using PDA using sketchy and pocket word in Wolverhampton school . role of teacher highlighted,differing approaches

Third video secondary in science how learners tries unsuccesfully to use a pda to sketch a graph using pocket excel . shows frustration of learner struggling to do a task not suitable for PDA .

• Learner didn't understand sketch graph
• poor understanding of software
• role of small screen not visable to teachers
• learner autonomy on small device difficult for teacher intervention.

Fourth video on speaking and listening or several lessons . using video of pupils peer preformance
brought out

• purpose for using device
• mobility
• 1:1
• tapping into the potential of the device
  

conclusion

• context constraints
• exploiting device potential
• shoehorning learning into technlogy maybe not the correct approach
• what is technology adding
• implications forCPD for teachers

practitioner talked about

• multi modality of approaches device support
• changing role of teacher
• role of CPD

GOOGLE Presentation great resource

Thanks to Danno pointing this out after my post on Google blogs next week the presentation is great haven't been easily able to find the group its linked to . Danno can you help find the blog ?? it stemmed from . But view the presentation its great !!

http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?fs=true&docid=ah4zsdj46b66_578cv4x7&pli=1


Its a technology that I think will change the way we work again !!
Made me think about how I use resources online to support presentations !! Off to lie down in a darkened room!!

less than a month to go and counting to Handheld Learning Conference

Well I am excited and I am pleased to be facilitating at the conference yes Graham persuaded me again. I am doing the breakout on "Reflections on Pedagogy"

cant wait but loads of stuff to do before then .

See the current programme at http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/hhl2007/hhl07_programme.pdf

Its going to be great and yet again it will take me weeks to recover and sustain my enthusiasm through the dark winter months "BRING IT ON !!!!

M-learning content, practices and emerging standards

Definitely an Antipodean flavour to postings this evening great posting from the online teacher network
http://onlineteachernetwork.edublogs.org/2007/05/11/m-learning-content-practices-and-emerging-standards/

following the link through the supporting website
http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/background/mlearn_bckgrnd.htm
The standards make an interesting read.
http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/docs/m-standards-guide-v1-0.pdf

what are we doing in northern hemisphere the m-internet (truly mobile internet) is coming if not all ready here !!