Emerging technologies for learning volume 3 (2008)

No apologies for blogging this Becta publication my colleague David Ley has worked with colleagues to bring this together. If you interested in emerging tech you've got to read this go on you know you want to !!!


Emerging technologies for learning volume 3 (2008)
Becta is pleased to announce that ‘Emerging technologies for learning- volume 3’ has just been published. This follow-up edition complements the first two ‘Emerging technologies for learning’ publications from 2006 and 2007.

The 'Emerging technologies for learning' series aims to help readers consider how emerging technologies may impact on education and learners in the medium term. The publications are not intended to be a comprehensive review of educational technologies, but offer some highlights across the broad spectrum of developments and trends. It should open readers up to some of the possibilities that are developing and the potential for technology to transform our ways of working, learning and interacting over the next three to five years.

Copies can be downloaded from
http://www.becta.org.uk/research/reports/emergingtechnologies

This latest publication includes the following articles:
• Growing up with Google - what it means to education (Diane Oblinger, EDUCAUSE)
• Mobile, wireless, connected - information clouds and learning (Mark van’t Hooft, Kent State University)
• Location-based and context-aware education - prospects and perils (Adam Greenfield, NYU)
• Emerging trends in serious games and virtual words (Sara de Freitas, SGI)
• ‘If it quacks like a duck…’ - developments in search technologies (Emma Tonkin, UKOLN)
• Interactive displays and next generation interfaces (Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences)

From Computers to ubiquitous computing by 2020 BCS discussion event

17th -18th March in London this looks like a really good event .

see the website and download programme at link below. one of my favourite speakers Adam Greenfield is speaking.

Event website at



http://royalsociety.org/event.asp?id=6065



Some of the speakers and chairs are:-
Professor Marta Kwiatkowska, Professor Tom Rodden and Professor Vladimiro Sassone

The convergence of wireless networks with new sensing technologies and devices has started to embed computers into our everyday life. This meeting will consider this shift to 'Ubiquitous Computing' as an interdisciplinary grand challenge affecting all aspects of computer science that has massive implications for how we might reason about, build and experience computer systems with considerable issues for society.

Speakers and chairs include:
Professor Ozalp Babaoglu, Professor Gaetano Borriello, Professor Jon Crowcroft, Professor Sir Ara Darzi, Professor Rocco de Nicola, Mr Adam Greenfield, Professor Wendy Hall, Professor Tom Henzinger, Professor Andy Hopper FRS, Professor Anupam Joshi, Professor Marta Kwiatkowska, Professor Gary Marsden, Professor Margaret Martonosi, Professor Robin Milner FRS, Professor Morgens Nielsen, Professor Ronald Rivest, Professor Tom Rodden, Professor Timothy Roscoe, Professor Vladimiro Sassone, Professor Morris Sloman, Professor Jeannette Wing and Professor Jonathan Zittrain.

Google are hiring London a hot bed of mobile development

As regular readers know I was lucky enough to chat with Peter Norvig at the ALTC 2007 conference dinner back in September. Over a wide ranging conversation Peter dropped in that most of Google mobile development work is taking place in London. I couldn't hep noticing the advert that came up in my Gmail web clips feed. So any one know guess what the Google mobile offer is likely to be.

EPICT conference future trends in learning

Mobile Learning and Online Communication

ajb1962@gmail.com

The normal caveat my view of what’s happening and its probably wrong. This is many way showcases excellent work that others are going to talk about

Plus if you want to keep up to date watch technology blogs my blog is www.andysblackhole.blogspot.com

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1Power

1.1 Switch IT off

1.1.1http://www.pcpro.co.uk/html/switch_it_off/

PC pro ran a campaign this year investigating the amountof cash wasted through PC's being left on overnight.

It was quite suprising,

if you leave a pc on overnight it will quickly consume 1kWh of energy, meaning you are needlessly spending more than £35 per year. And do not think that putting it into standby will help: we found one PC that consumed 78W in this mode, only reducing the wastage to about £25.

If your college has 100 pc's that's possibly £3500/year

AS well as saving cash, the scheme is approved by the carbon trust, as helping to reduce CO2 emmisions.

1.2Batteries

1.2.1 Battery powered printer

Flexibility in delivery and assessment.

The advent of online testing for keyskills, and various other assessments can make a difference. The city and guilds online testing facility allows the test to be downloaded and put on a laptop and carried out to the workplace taking the test to the user. A portable printer powered by Lion battery pack means provisional results can be given instantly.

1.2.2 Battery projection device

you don't believe me ???

1.2.3 Fuel Cells

Forget the miniature vodka shots you will be carrying alcohol to top up your laptop. Fuel cells are going to be appearring very soon . The much vaunted $100 laptop using wind up technology will have spin offs elsewhere .Intel are also talking of parrallel product educational $100 device

2Devices

2.1 Tablets

New software that is ink enabled turning up all the time Reg Microsoft one note, Agile Go binder, Blackboard backpack. see Becta tablet PC evaluation http://www.becta.org.uk/research/research.cfm?section=1&id=3357

Power toys from Microsoft for tablet:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/tabletpc.mspx

Trend

1) slate

2) laptop plus keyboard . The days of tablet being less powerful than laptop are long gone

2.2UMPC

UltraMobile PC 's heres two I made earlier

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1856508,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=20

Q1 by samsung with added USB Keyboard (theyre tablets to)

UMPC 650 by Remtech

2.3Handheld device

As with UMPC couple of places to stay in touch if you know the future let me know

Is it Portable Digital Assistnat PDA or Education Digital assistant EDA

or is it an phoneww.handheldlearning.co.uk

Join PDA in education jiscmail list

PDA-EDU@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

I have seen the future and its Apple !!

2.4Memory Sticks

wireless usb memory is coming

2.5Games machines

2.5.1PSP

2 million devices in the UK by Christmas 5 million by Easter !!

with WiFI ability to run flash and browser capability

2.5.2Nintendo DS

2.5.3WII

2.6MP3 Players

IPOD released 2001 by September 2007 110 million world wide !!

stuff seen Glasgow yesterday link here

2.7Wireless projectors

3Connectivity

3.1Wi FI

8011b

8011g

8011n

Spanish firm Fon could change the model very Wi Fi 2.0

3.23 G

It isn't cheap but neither is paying for one off wireless hotspots. In major centre works well and most provincial towns have coverage

3.3Wi Max

WiMax will cover most of the UK witih two to three year . Intel trialling with University. Several city wide trials of wimax and mesh wireless technology being talked off

3.4GSM Edge

See document: happy-birthday-gsm-network.html

3.5Bluetooth

Bluetooth 1 10Metres

Bluetooth 2 100metres

4social software

4.1Blogs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs

http://edublogs.org

blogger

http://www.blogger.com

4.2Wiki

A shared resource of web page allowing multiple users to edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

PBwiki

http://pbwiki.com

Wiki spaces

http://www.wikispaces.com

4.3Subtopic

4.4RSS

RSS = Really Simple Syndication

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format) (20th May 2006)

Web feeds

a push technology linked with stuff like

you can read feeds in live book marks in Firefox, www.bloglines.com , RSS reader in Google.

my bloglines are public www.blogslines.com/public/ajb1962

4.5Podcasting

Downloads of MP3 was definitely the emerging technology in education of 2004/2005 Podcasting was the emerging technology of 2005/2006

4.5.1 St Johns Podcast

Downloads of MP3 was definitely the emerging technology in education of 2005 Podcasting is the emerging technology of 2006 . Saint Johns Ambulance have even done simple First Aid advice as podcasts http://www.sja.org.uk/firstaid/info/default.asp . Look out for More and The Ferl website at becta is going to be doing a trial podcast in the new year

4.6Photosharing

Flickr

http://www.flickr.com

my photo's

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysblackhole/

Picasa

http://picasa.google.co.uk

http://picasaweb.google.com/home

4.7Face book

www.facebook.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

the UK now has 5.2m Facebook users

4.8MySpace

http://www.myspace.com

MySpace has cracked the 10 million user mark in the UK, meaning more people have put a profile up than drink bitter, according to the social networking website.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2122397,00.html

4.9Youtube/teachertube

See document: get_video.flv

5SMS phenomena

UK 4.5 billion text messages sent in March !!!

The majority of the now 2.5+ billion mobile subscribers are located in developing countries. This is a stunning new kind of event for our planet: the dominance of leading edge technology is emerging from marginalises places. That has not happened before, particularly on the enormous scale of the mobiles.

Pupils at a school in Buckinghamshire have been getting extra help with GCSE revision by texting their teachers. Far from banning mobile phones, Cottesloe School in Wing has decided to turn modern technology to its advantage in an attempt to improve results. Since Easter, Year 11 pupils have been able to message teachers from home with revision queries and get a text answer. The school said “text mentoring” had also seen teachers messaging pupils with revision prompts and exam tips.

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British rail passengers to get free Wi-Fi ride

Rail passengers on the London-to-Scotland east coast main line will get free Wi-Fi as part of National Express' 1.4 billion-pound ($2.8 billion) winning bid to run the franchise.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6202446.html

great news for rail travellers now the rest of the train companies how about it !!!

London WiFi hotspot idea from a blog reader for further functionality . Plus excellent link for open source GPS software

Thanks to Adrian Higginbotham for this comment
The london free hotspots thing is good - now it just needs GPS refrences so we can use handheld GPS such as the opensource LoadStone GPS www.loadstone-gps.com to navigate to the nearest free hotspot. Thanks for the load stone link looks well worth a look.

Free WiFi in London mapped

This is something I have been looking for a while for when I transit or stay in London . Its WiFi that's free to use and doesn't involve so called stealing connectivity from unsecured networks.



This is the one for free Wifi .http://www.londonist.com/archives/2007/05/free_wifi_in_lo.php



its got a related blog so one to watch.

One laptop per Child moving into top gear

I was lucky enough to meet Mary Lou Jepsen at Mlearn2006 in Alberta I sat down next to her at breakfast !!!Mary is a leading part of the one laptop per child project team .It has the weirdest homepage but its the initiative that everybody has talked about knocked praised and it really is beginning to happen. http://www.laptop.org/index.shtml

they're is some really long but good video on the project at http://1laptop1student.blogspot.com/2007/04/olpc-tech-talk-w-google.html

some really interesting results of trialling in Nigeria

And from karlfich blog
a great quote for those that said they would'nt do it

Oh, and they're hoping to ship 10 million of them this year, 50-100 million next year.

Move over XBOX 360 as biggest product roll out in history

Plus my own thought mesh technology is the future !!!

UKERNA launch wireless advisory service

This looks really useful for those of your working with wireless !!
UKERNA launched the Wireless Technology Advisory Service (WTAS) at Networkshop on 4/05/07. This service provides free advice and guidance to organisations on all aspects of wireless technologies. A wide range of information is published on this web site, including technology guides, and case studies

For a number of years JANET-connected organisations have been deploying wireless LANs (WLANs) alongside the wired networking infrastructure within their campuses. The rate of growth in the deployment of WLANs within the teaching and learning environment is accelerating, in parallel with the demand-driven proliferation of fixed and mobile wireless technologies and standards.

2020 Vision on DesignShare from Fischbowl

2020 Vision on DesignShare from my favourite blog !

If your involved with Building Schools For the Future in the UK in secondary, The primary Capitalisation programe (BSF for primary) or FE colleges new build reads this stuff.
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/03/2020-vision-on-designshare.html

also look at how it was collaboratively developed http://www.designshare.com/index.php/articles/2020-vision


short post for the best reading and viewing on the subject. Design learning spaces for the future not now or even worse the past.

Beyond M-learning

From homepage of the Kaleidoscope Mobile Learning SIG a really interesting resources well worth delving into clip form Mike Sharples ( Nottingham University m-learning world guru).

This part of the site is intended to be a store of useful resources for researchers and students in Mobile Learning. It will grow as additional resources are contributed by members of the SIG.

Featured resources

• Proceedings of Beyond Mobile Learning Workshop. Edited by Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Mike Sharples, Giasemi Vavoula, The CSCL Alpine Rendez-Vous, Villars, Switzerland, 21-23 January 2007.
• The "Big Issues in Mobile Learning" report has now been published. The report is edited by Mike Sharples and contains chapters from 8 collaborative sessions organised around important and emergent topics of mobile learning.
  
  You can also download a Big Issues in Mobile Learning presentation held at IADIS 2006.

Becta Content Developers' Bulletin: Issue 26, March 2007

this maybe of interest I include a summary of contents below so if your interested go and download it. Also subscribe the excellent technews while your there.

This bulletin is also available to download from the Becta website http://www.becta.org.uk/industry/newsletters

In this edition:

1. News headlines
*Funding guidance for schools and local authorities 2007 - 8
*Making accessible software: rising to the challenge

2. Focus on... forums and discussion groups (part 1 of 2)

3. Education updates

3.1 Schools
*Secondary curriculum review
*Younger pupils to learn foreign languages
*Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework
*Report on the impact of ICT in Europe
*QCA's new teacher assessment activities
*QCA research: role play in primary learning

3.2 Post-16 and 14-19
*JISC e-assessment report
*Web 2.0 - TechWatch report
*Assessment 2.0

3.3 SEN and inclusion
*TechDis launches HEAT2 funding programme

4. Technical news
*March TechNews out now
*Becta Thin Client report
*New Linux standards group
*Tool for converting MS Office documents to ODF
*Intel playground-proof laptop

5. General news
*Emerging technologies for learning, Volume 2
*QCA research into learner motivation
*National Year of Reading announced for 2008
*DfES funding to boost after-school science clubs
*Becta's current research
*'Made IT Happen' competition

6. Events
*Enhancing learning; virtual worlds, simulations and game based learning seminar
*e-Access '07
*Education 2007 - Excellence for all
*ALT-C: Beyond control

7. Feedback and unsubscription information

WiFi Buses drive rural web use

Such a cool story clever use of caching I know it cant be perfect but still quite a neat idea

Buses equipped with wi-fi are being used to deliver web content to remote rural villages in the developing world.


In rural India and parts of Rwanda, Cambodia andParaguay, the vehicles offer web content to computers with no internet
read BBC story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6506193.stm

Times of india story relating the indian sub continent angle at

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1221225.cms

BBC use term In search of the neo-nomad. Well I used term digital nomad back in September 2005

BBC NEWS | Technology | In search of the neo-nomad

well great article BBC but I would like to point out that I used the term term Digital Nomad at ALT-C 2005 at Exeter University in a discussion around digital natives and described new form of worker learning technologist. I actually used the Phrase yesterday to Steve Sidaway of TXTtools
can I claim IPR ???? ;-) nice article .
Are you a digital nomad !!