Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth

The New Smart Devices for Learning

The Future...?

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“One day every town in America

will have a telephone!”

~ U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)

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The Future...?

• 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...

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Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...

Smart technologies will take the classroom into the world.

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www.canada.com

We are family

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http://pro.corbis.com

Wii are family!

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http://wiifitnessdepot.com

“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.”

~ Paulo Frierehttp://arts.anu.edu.au

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

~ Dave Cormierwww.aaceconnect.org

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Formal and Informal learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning

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Self organised learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning

Self Organised Learning

In SOL students take responsibility for their

own learning and put this into successful action.

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

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“We simply have too much information and we can’t make sense of it all. It changes too quickly”.

~ George Siemens

comets.iastate.edu

Source: www.connectivism.ca/

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Generating Content

Sharing Content Organising Content

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Personal Web Tools

Generating Content

Sharing Content Organising Content

Communication

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Personal Web Tools

E-Learning 3.0

1. Distributed (Cloud) Computing2. Extended Smart Mobile Technology3. Collaborative Intelligent Filtering4. 3D Visualisation and Interaction

Source: steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

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

~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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www.topnews.in

Real World

Virtual World

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

Virtuality ContinuumAdapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005)

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Web meets World

Web meets World

Mash-upGPSQR codes

Camera

Mobile phone

Bar codesBrowser

Projector

GeomappingGeotaggingPersonalised

Ambient

3-D

Video

Navigation

Communication

Haptic

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Mixed Reality

Real World

Virtual World

Augmented Reality

Augmented Virtuality

Virtuality ContinuumAdapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005)

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Real World

Virtual World

Augmented Reality

Augmented Virtuality

Virtuality ContinuumAdapted from Nijholt & Traum (2005)

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the virtual augments the real

the real augments the virtual

1: The phone app2: 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.

Source: www.geeks.co.uk

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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.

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As you move your mobile phone camera, so the overlays change to represent information relevant to the scene before you.

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www.guardian.co.uk

Find the nearest tube station...

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www.guardian.co.uk

Find the nearest Tube Station...

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

Natural Born Cyborgs?

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Camera

Coloured caps

Coloured caps

Mirror

Projector

Phone

MIT’s “6th Sense” Wearable...

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

ambient.media.mit.edu

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

ambient.media.mit.edu

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www.labnol.org

...will project onto any surface...

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a-r-u-n.com

...including your hand.

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a-r-u-n.com

...or your students!

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Real World

Virtual World

Augmented Reality

Augmented Virtuality

Virtuality ContinuumWhere they fit in to the continuum...

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Layar,Pathfinder

6th Sense

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Some possible smart tech uses• Informal, self organised learning• Problem based learning• Group based activities• Outdoor learning• Independent study• Distance learning• Blended learning

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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 cc

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Thank you

Steve WheelerFaculty of EducationUniversity of Plymouth

W: www2.plymouth.ac.uk/distancelearningE: swheeler@plymouth.ac.ukB: steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

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