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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images
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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Steve Wheeler [email protected] Plymouth University, United Kingdom