The New Smart Devices for Learning

Pranoy Luis

The Future...?
One day every town in America will have a telephone!
~ U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)
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The Future...?
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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...

Smart technologies will take the classroom into the world.

www.canada.com

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Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...

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We are family
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Wii are family!

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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.
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~ Paulo Friere

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~ Dave Cormier
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The present speed of information based on new technologies has undermined traditional expert driven processes of knowledge development and dissemination.

Formal and Informal learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning
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Self organised learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning
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Self Organised Learning

In SOL students take responsibility for their own learning and put this into successful action.

Source: http://www.equal-works.com

~ George Siemens
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Source: www.connectivism.ca/

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We simply have too much information and we cant make sense of it all. It changes too quickly.

Personal Web Tools

Generating Content
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Sharing Content

Organising Content

Personal Web Tools

Generating Content
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Communication

Sharing Content

Organising Content

E-Learning 3.0
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1. Distributed (Cloud) Computing 2. Extended Smart Mobile Technology 3. Collaborative Intelligent Filtering 4. 3D Visualisation and Interaction

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~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Virtuality Continuum
Adapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005) cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010

Continuous spectrum from the completely real (Reality) to the completely virtual (Virtual Reality).

Real World

Virtual World

Web meets World

Web meets World

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Camera

Mobile phone

GPS Mash-up Projector Personalised

Haptic

QR codes
Communication

3-D

Geotagging Geomapping Navigation

Video

Bar codes

Browser

Ambient

Virtuality Continuum
Adapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005) cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010

Real World

Augmented Reality

Augmented Virtuality

Virtual World

Mixed Reality

Virtuality Continuum
Adapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005) cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010

the virtual augments the real

the real augments the virtual

Real World

Augmented Reality

Augmented Virtuality

Virtual World

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1: The phone app 2: 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.
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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.
www.winandmac.com

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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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Find the nearest tube station...

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www.guardian.co.uk

Natural Born Cyborgs?

www.guardian.co.uk paradox2101.fw.hu

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Augmented Virtuality is when you interact with your computer using objects in the physical world.

Find the nearest Tube Station...

Coloured caps Camera

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Projector Coloured caps Mirror

Phone
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MITs 6th Sense Wearable...

ambient.media.mit.edu

...enables you to take pictures using the framing gesture

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ambient.media.mit.edu

...enables you to take pictures using the framing gesture and manipulate documents with natural gestures...
chi2009.org

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...will project onto any surface...

www.labnol.org

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...including your hand.

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...or your students!

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Virtuality Continuum
Where they fit in to the continuum...

Layar, Pathfinder

6th Sense
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Real World

Augmented Reality

Augmented Virtuality

Virtual World

Some possible smart tech uses

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Informal, self organised learning Problem based learning Group based activities Outdoor learning Independent study Distance learning Blended learning

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
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Thank you

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