mobled10: the state of mobility

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MoblEd10Pasadena City CollegeApril 19-20, 2010

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Where were we a year ago?MoblEd09

In April 2009...

Michael Jackson was preparing to perform in concert in London

In April 2009...

Nobody outside of Apple had ever seen or heard of an iPad

In April 2009...

Nobody had ever heard of Eyjafjallajokul

In April 2009...

Barack Obama had just been inaugurated.

“Tea Party” meant something different...

In April 2009...

Haiti was already poor, but most Americans weren’t paying much attention...

In April 2009...

Total fund raising by cell phone text messaging estimated at less than $1 million... (since then, estimated at $50 million...)

In April 2009...

In April 2009...

The US Unemployment rate was 8.6%... (now 9.7%...)

April 2010 the state of mobility

Twitter has gone mainstream.

40,000 tweets/minute

57,600,000 tweets/daySource: TweeSpeed

In the past year...

24% increase in smart phone sales worldwide

Introducing the Droid.

How will the iPad affect change in the way we work, live, play and learn?

Shifts in Higher Ed LandscapeIn 2009, 1 in 4 college students were enrolled in at least one online class (4 million+ total)

Allan and Seaman. Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States, 2009. Babson Research Group and Sloan Consortium. http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/learning_on_demand_sr2010

• National online enrollment growth: 17%• Overall higher ed growth: 2%

• Don’t remember life before the internet

• Socialize face-to-face and online

Source: Smith, Salaway, Borreson Caruso. ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and IT, 2009. http://www.educause.edu/ecar

• 95% of 18-24 year olds use a social network (70% daily)

Who are our students? (18-24)

Source: Smith, Salaway, Borreson Caruso. ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and IT, 2009. http://www.educause.edu/ecar

• Create & share online content

• Have immediate access to information

• 45% share videos online (YouTube)• 42% contribute content to wikis• 37% contribute to blogs • 35% use podcasts

• 86% own a cell phone• 51% own a hand held internet device

Who are our students? (18-24)

Participatory Learning is Commonplace

“Since the current generation of college students has no memory of the historical moment before the advent of the Internet, we are suggesting that participatory learning as a practice is no longer exotic or new but a commonplace way of socializing and learning. For many, it seems entirely unremarkable.”

The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg with the assistance of Zoë Marie Jones. From the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachussets, 2009.

Project Tomorrow, Speak Up Survey, 2009.

K-12 Students, “What obstacles do you face in using technology

at your school?”

#1. “I cannot use my mobile device” (51%)

Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). (2009). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.

2010 Horizon Report

One Year or Less: • Mobile Computing

• Open Content

How are you experiencing your world differently?

How is our collective, mobile shift changing the world?

MoblEd09:

What can you do with a mobile device?

MoblEd10:

What can’t you do with a mobile device?

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