digital futures: innovations in mobile learning

Steve Wheeler@timbuckteeth

Plymouth University

Digital Futures//Innovations in Mobile Learning

Sheffield Hallam University, May 28 2012

http://learningputty.com

• social media and informal learning• integrating the use of smart devices • augmented reality/wearable computing• mobile learning research issues

Can we predict the Future...?

www.abebooks.com

“One day every town in America will have a telephone!”

~ U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)

http://thebitchywaiter.blogspot.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.

The Future...?

• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’• 2009: ‘The future is smart mobile’

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The first mobile phone

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

The ‘brick’

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

>850 Million(100 billion connections)

>400 Million >150 Million

>260 Million

>14 million

articles

>6 Billion images

Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com

>4 Billion views/day>60 hours/minute

>170 Million

>90 Million

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med_mob_pho-media-mobile-phones

Worldwide ownership of mobile phones

5.9 Billion mobile accounts

= 87% of population

Mobile game based learning

http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-mobile-gaming-statistics-stats-2011/

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Personal devices and mobile learning

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

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg

BYOD - Personal technologies

http://www.csmonitor.com

Is the future of learning non-touch?

1: The phone app2: The ‘wearable’

images.businessweek.com

Camera

Coloured caps

Coloured caps

Mirror

Projector

Phone blogs.fayobserver.com

MIT’s “Sixth Sense” Wearable...

Web meets World

Mash-upGPSQR codes

Camera

Mobile phone

Bar codesBrowser

Projector

GeomappingGeotaggingPersonalised

Ambient

3-D

Video

Navigation

Communication

Haptic

http://www.hearty-india.com/2011/06/pranav-mistry-real-sixth-sense-genius.html

http://xenophilius.files.wordpress.com

Natural user interfaces

Non touch systems

Gestural interaction

Facial feature recognition

Speech to text

Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/

Intuitive handheld devices

Natural gesture interface

Connection to my learning network

Social issues

http://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/

http://www.mopocket.com/

Public performance

“The mobile phone ... Is a new kind of stage where the mobile information society is acted out.”

- Puro (2002)

http://www.lifehack.org

Blogging on the move to capture images, sounds, experiences

Moblogging

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

http://atomictoasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/cell-phone-booth.jpg

“Defending the space within which one would like to isolate one’s voice.” - Leopoldina Fortunati

Is language being dumbed down?

Literacy issues

Competition to write the Lord’s Prayer in <160 characters

r pa in evan, respect 2 u, may u rain ear as in evan. giv us r needs, 4giv r sin as we 4giv r nmes. resq us from the evil 1. 4 ur always the most xlent dude. yo

“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.”

David Crystal

Evolution of Language

http://www.utsa.edu

“Mobile phones are forcing children to become more literate. Without the ability to txt, they

cannot fully participate in their own culture of communication”

Peter Yeomans (2010)

Squeeze txt and literacy

reputationlanguage

Managing identity

nameimages

netiquettereputation

avatar interaction

privacy

personal data

identity

legacy

reputationname

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interaction

http://i.dailymail.co.uk

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• 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.

Technology issues

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 device2.Keep it simple, keep it smart3.Immediate and revisitable

Source: http://www.saffroninteractive.com

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

Learningis changing

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

Community as curriculum

“How can technology make a person better? Only in this way: by providing each person with chances.”

- Kevin Kelly

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK:

International Licence.

Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk Plymouth University, United Kingdom