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Education Unplugged: Mobile Learning Comes of Age

Education Unplugged: Mobile Learning Comes of Age. Hysteria, History, and Histrionics. Hysteria. What is Mobile Learning?.

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Education Unplugged: Mobile Learning Comes of Age

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  1. Education Unplugged: Mobile Learning Comes of Age Hysteria, History, and Histrionics

  2. Hysteria

  3. What is Mobile Learning? • … the intersection of mobile computing and e-learning: accessible resources wherever you are, strong search capabilities, rich interaction, powerful support for effective learning, and performance-based assessment. eLearning independent of location in time or space. - Clark Quinn, 2000

  4. A new m-learning architecture will support creation, brokerage, delivery and tracking of learning and information contents, using ambient intelligence, location-dependence, personalization, multimedia, instant messaging (text, video) and distributed databases. Field trials cover “blended learning” (as part of formal courses); “adventitious, location-dependent learning” (during visits to museums); and “learning to interpret information sources and advice” (acquiring medical information for everyday needs). The high connectivity and functionality may lead to new group behaviors, akin to the SMS phenomenon. (UK) (FI) (IT) (DE) (CH) (US) (AU) (ES) (GR) (IL)

  5. What Have We Been Smoking? • Predictions of the effects of technology are notoriously • Too ambitious in the short term • Too modest in the long term, and • Usually miss the real point. • E-learning is still tied to traditional instructional models (that have little to do with mobility) • Fundamental issues need to be resolved: • Ownership & Distribution Channels • Technology & Standards

  6. History

  7. History 1989 NCTM Standards: • Scientific calculators with graphing capabilities will be available to all students at all times. • A computer will be available at all times in every classroom for demonstration purposes, and all students will have access to computers for individual and group work. CASIO – FIRST GRAPHING CALCULATOR, 1985 Photo by Mark Bollman

  8. History 2000 NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics: • Technology is essential in teaching and learning mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and enhances students' learning. • When technological tools are available, students can focus on decision making, reflection, reasoning, and problem solving. GRAPHING CALCULTOR FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL - 1995 Photo by Mark Bollman

  9. YET … Maybe it’s not about technology

  10. Tatar, D., Roschelle, J., Vahey, P., Penuel, W. (2003). Handhelds Go to School: Lessons Learned. Computer 36 (9). IEEE Computer Society. Photo by Mark Bollman CALCULTORS DO SYMBOLIC ALGEBRA (Mid – 1990’s)

  11. ACCESSIBLE • UBIQUITOUS • 87% of public school classrooms had Internet access in 2001 • BUT: 4 – 5 students per connected computer • AFFORDABLE • $500? • $200? • $100? • $50? • PORTABLE A COMPUTER ON EVERY DESKTOP A COMPUTER IN EVERY BACKPACK

  12. AND ONLINE … TI Navigator

  13. But Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? • TDMA • CDMA • GSM • GPRS • iMODE • UMTS

  14. MPEG LA Announces OMA DRM Patent License TermsDENVER - MPEG LA announced today that an initial group of essential patent holders including ContentGuard Holdings, Inc., Intertrust Technologies Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and Sony Corporation have reached tentative agreement on the terms of a joint patent portfolio license to be offered by MPEG LA for use of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) DRM 1.0 specification. The companies were convened in response to MPEG LA's call for essential patents ( http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_04-07-20_drm.pdf ). The proposed OMA DRM Patent Portfolio License is expected to cover products that use the OMA DRM 1.0 specification, as well as those which use both OMA DRM 1.0 and 2.0. Under the proposed License, royalty rates for patents essential to OMA DRM 1.0 in connection with products that have OMA DRM 1.0 functionality or OMA DRM 1.0 and OMA DRM 2.0 functionality would be (a) US$1.00 per device (payable by the party that offers the device to an end user) and (b) 1% of any transaction in which an end user pays for delivery of a digital asset employing OMA 1.0 (payable by the service provider). OMA DRM 2.0 essential patents may be added as a result of a pending call issued by MPEG LA on 23 September 2004 ( http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_04-09-23_drm.pdf ).

  15. HISTRIONICS (Convergence).

  16. Information Content GroupWare Collaboration The Web WAP / WML Mobile Phones WiFi Access Communication Flash Digital Libraries Calculators Multimedia Validation Pedagogy

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