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The New Smart Devices for Learning
The Future...?
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“One day every town in America
will have a telephone!”
~ U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)
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The Future...?
• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’• 2009: ‘The future is smart mobile’
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Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...
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Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...
Smart technologies will take the classroom into the world.
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www.canada.com
We are family
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http://pro.corbis.com
Wii are family!
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http://wiifitnessdepot.com
“Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”
~ Paulo Frierehttp://arts.anu.edu.au
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“The present speed of information based on new technologies has undermined traditional expert driven processes of knowledge development and dissemination.”
~ Dave Cormierwww.aaceconnect.org
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Formal and Informal learning
Formal Learning Informal Learning
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Self organised learning
Formal Learning Informal Learning
Self Organised Learning
In SOL students take responsibility for their
own learning and put this into successful action.
Source: http://www.equal-works.com
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“We simply have too much information and we can’t make sense of it all. It changes too quickly”.
~ George Siemens
comets.iastate.edu
Source: www.connectivism.ca/
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Generating Content
Sharing Content Organising Content
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Personal Web Tools
Generating Content
Sharing Content Organising Content
Communication
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Personal Web Tools
E-Learning 3.0
1. Distributed (Cloud) Computing2. Extended Smart Mobile Technology3. Collaborative Intelligent Filtering4. 3D Visualisation and Interaction
Source: steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
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“We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.”
~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee
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Real World
Virtual World
Continuous spectrum from the completely real (Reality) to the completely virtual (Virtual Reality).
Virtuality ContinuumAdapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005)
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Web meets World
Web meets World
Mash-upGPSQR codes
CameraMobile phone
Bar codesBrowser
Projector
GeomappingGeotaggingPersonalised
Ambient
3-D
Video
Navigation
Communication
Haptic
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Mixed Reality
Real World
Virtual World
Augmented Reality
Augmented Virtuality
Virtuality ContinuumAdapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005)
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Real World
Virtual World
Augmented Reality
Augmented Virtuality
Virtuality ContinuumAdapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005)
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the virtual augments the real
the real augments the virtual
1: The phone app2: The ‘wearable’
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Augmented reality is when technology recognises what you are doing and then enhances it.AR apps add information to the world around us.
Source: www.geeks.co.uk
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Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.
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As you move your mobile phone camera, so the overlays change to represent information relevant to the scene before you.
truliablog.com
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www.guardian.co.uk
Find the nearest tube station...
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www.guardian.co.uk
Find the nearest Tube Station...
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Augmented Virtuality is when you interact with your computer using objects in the physical world.
Natural Born Cyborgs?
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Camera
Coloured caps
Coloured caps
Mirror
Projector
Phone
MIT’s “6th Sense” Wearable...
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...enables you to take pictures using the framing gesture
ambient.media.mit.edu
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...enables you to take pictures using the framing gesture and manipulate documents with natural gestures...
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chi2009.org
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www.labnol.org
...will project onto any surface...
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a-r-u-n.com
...including your hand.
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...or your students!
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Real World
Virtual World
Augmented Reality
Augmented Virtuality
Virtuality ContinuumWhere they fit in to the continuum...
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Layar,Pathfinder
6th Sense
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Some possible smart tech uses• Informal, self organised learning• Problem based learning• Group based activities• Outdoor learning• Independent study• Distance learning• Blended learning
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Some issues with Smart Devices
• Personalised learning?• Connectivity • Choosing a device• Learning how to use it• Learning what it can be used for• Bandwidth availability cc
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Thank you
Steve WheelerFaculty of EducationUniversity of Plymouth
W: www2.plymouth.ac.uk/distancelearningE: [email protected]: steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
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