This document discusses mobile learning and the future of education. It argues that learning is becoming more personalized, portable, and participatory due to new technologies. Formal education needs to shift from an industrial, one-size-fits-all model to one centered around the learner and incorporating new tools. Students should have access to one-to-one mobile devices that allow learning anywhere and through user-generated content. The future of learning lies outside traditional classrooms and involves continual, social learning over a lifetime. Teachers must help facilitate this new paradigm by utilizing online resources and becoming experts in information management and technology integration.
2. Conference CD - One to one mobile computing devices by Anne
Weaver SLAQ-IASL Conference 2010, 30 September
3. Contents
1.Razzle Dazzle-me
2.Lifting the lid-me
3.Questions-YOU, Living Books3.Questions-YOU, Living Books
4.Participatory Projects-me- probably
run out of time, but I am available for guest
appearances, especially at exotic locations to
discuss these
5. Texting – Ccommunication highlights
•WOMBAT Waste of money, brains and time
•WDALYIC Who died and left you in charge
•ROFLCOPTER Rolling on floor laughing and
spinning aroundspinning around
•831 I love you (8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning)
7. Great Revelations – NOT!!!
1. There are imperatives for continual learning
2. Learning is a process, not a series of events
3. Most learning occurs outside classrooms
4. The vast majority of learning is social
5. A lot of formal learning is ineffective
6. People learn better when they are in charge6. People learn better when they are in charge
7. Informal and social learning are cost-effective
8. There’s inherent inertia in formal approaches
New pedagogies need to be learner (student and
teacher) centred – TLs need to resource the
curriculum- WHAT and HOW?
http://www.slideshare.net/charlesjennings/8-reasons-to-focus-on-informal-social-learning
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14. Your library will not be quieter
or less busy if students have
their own computer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sully_aka__wstera2/1408154388/
22. 1. Razzle Dazzle
1.Angelos and the SCDC crew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXAlQG6rB94
This is from a much longer talk by Chris Anderson which I will not playThis is from a much longer talk by Chris Anderson which I will not play
today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Zo53M0lcY&feature=player_
embedded
But watch this 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7sjyN8yjFM
29. Eeerotate for PC – turn netbook into
ereader
http://lifehacker.com/5249179/eeerotahttp://lifehacker.com/5249179/eeerota
te-orients-your-laptop-screen-for-easy-
reading
30. 3. Using video as a teaching tool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtB6_D_toVQ&fehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtB6_D_toVQ&fe
ature=player_embedded
45. 4. Participatory Projects
1. Monologue- Audacity example
2. War video – Moviemaker, dramatic rendition
3. Photostory – voice recording over story-primary
4. Home and Away – Book trailer –Moviemaker4. Home and Away – Book trailer –Moviemaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmLRFN4HPqQ
With access and connectivity, assessment
is not the end of the process
46. http://startl.org/2010/09/24/we-
are-not-waiting-for-superman-
we-are-empowering-
superheroes/
If we continue to limit our
thinking about education to
28 students,1 teacher,1500
square feet between the
hours of 8 to 3, we arehours of 8 to 3, we are
condemning today’s fourth
graders to exactly the same
educational experience that
I got in 1976, that my father
got in 1946, and that his
father got in 1916. Diana
Rhoten
http://nofatclips.com/02010/06/30/waiting-
superman/waiting-for-superman.jpg
47. Are TLS IT teachers?
•Rewind- Teacher librarians need to
become the Chief Information Officer at
their school – said by Michael Hough SLAQIASL2010
•Remember, information is increasingly
online, in addition to traditional sourcesonline, in addition to traditional sources
•Resourcing information needs is about
both WHAT and HOW eg Web 2.0 tools, Barbara
Combes – break it up- into steps and stages
•Build a bridge !!!
48. Not the End
Move from industrial learning forced feeding model
to creative, innovative, learner centred models for
students and teachers
Online elearning- creating learning
objects/experiences/modulesobjects/experiences/modules
Need one to one devices that are
– Personal
– Portable ( not just mobile- wifi anywhere)
– Multifunction (not just an ereader) - and Participatory
49. Homework
• My paper has a lot of research on the theory
underlying these ideas- see the SLAQIASL2010
conference CD
• http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/infor
mation-consumption-2010-portable-
participatory-and-personal