Asset-taggedMiles Metcalfe @mmetcalfe — FOTE 2010

Technology has progressed to the point where a person who wishes to partake in the social, cultural,

and political affairs of our society has no realistic choice but to expose to others, if not to the public as a whole, a broad range of conduct and communications

that would previously have been deemed unquestionably private.

US magistrate judge, James Orenstein, 2010

At FOTE 2010 we are all optimists

Mobile, social and in the cloud

Mobile, social and in the cloud

• You don’t need to buy technology to build learning infrastructure

Mobile, social and in the cloud

• You don’t need to buy technology to build learning infrastructure

• Your students will connect to learning anytime and anywhere with their mobiles

Mobile, social and in the cloud

• You don’t need to buy technology to build learning infrastructure

• Your students will connect to learning anytime and anywhere with their mobiles

• Your teachers will use social software to engage learners in novel learning spaces

Welcome to “teh shiny”

Welcome to “teh shiny” *

* Your milage may vary. Jet-packs are optional

Welcome to “teh shiny”

• With your internet-connected computer in your pocket

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* Your milage may vary. Jet-packs are optional

Welcome to “teh shiny”

• With your internet-connected computer in your pocket

• And an iPad to rewrite the textbook of learning

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* Your milage may vary. Jet-packs are optional

Welcome to “teh shiny”

• With your internet-connected computer in your pocket

• And an iPad to rewrite the textbook of learning

• In the virtu-real(TM) learning space without boundaries

*

* Your milage may vary. Jet-packs are optional

but

If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer;

you’re the product being sold.

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Why is the world’s biggest ad trafficker in the mobile phone business?

Do no evil

Do no evil

• Street view and wireless sniffing

Do no evil

• Street view and wireless sniffing

• An innocent mistake

Do no evil

• Street view and wireless sniffing

• An innocent mistake

• We all patent innocent mistakes

Do no evil

• Street view and wireless sniffing

• An innocent mistake

• We all patent innocent mistakes

• Google Buzz

Do no evil

• Street view and wireless sniffing

• An innocent mistake

• We all patent innocent mistakes

• Google Buzz

• Enforced open social graph

Do no evil

• Street view and wireless sniffing

• An innocent mistake

• We all patent innocent mistakes

• Google Buzz

• Enforced open social graph

• If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear

Do no evil

• Street view and wireless sniffing

• An innocent mistake

• We all patent innocent mistakes

• Google Buzz

• Enforced open social graph

• If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear

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* Except when there’s money in it for us

You are the target

You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are

You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are

• So does your telco.

You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are

• So does your telco.

• The phone’s software vendor (and a lot of other people) do too

You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are

• So does your telco.

• The phone’s software vendor (and a lot of other people) do too

• You, your habits, where you are right now is the product on sale

You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are

• So does your telco.

• The phone’s software vendor (and a lot of other people) do too

• You, your habits, where you are right now is the product on sale

• Adwords sold your attention

You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are

• So does your telco.

• The phone’s software vendor (and a lot of other people) do too

• You, your habits, where you are right now is the product on sale

• Adwords sold your attention

• The mobile internet is selling your location

Because we can

Social software in education

Social software in education

• Because of “the kidz” or from teachers’ enthusiasms?

Social software in education

• Because of “the kidz” or from teachers’ enthusiasms?

• How many teenagers spontaneously blog?

Social software in education

• Because of “the kidz” or from teachers’ enthusiasms?

• How many teenagers spontaneously blog?

• What’s the demographic of Twitter?

Social software in education

• Because of “the kidz” or from teachers’ enthusiasms?

• How many teenagers spontaneously blog?

• What’s the demographic of Twitter?

• What age-range is most likely to post compromising pictures on Facebook?

Terms and conditions

Terms and conditions

• Who reads clickwrap?

Terms and conditions

• Who reads clickwrap?

• What is our critical response to services that turn consumers into product?

Terms and conditions

• Who reads clickwrap?

• What is our critical response to services that turn consumers into product?

• What do we think about regulation after the financial crisis?

Critical thinking

Critical thinking

• Public sector walled gardens

Critical thinking

• Public sector walled gardens

• Uncritical neophilia of the digerati

Critical thinking

• Public sector walled gardens

• Uncritical neophilia of the digerati

• Nay-sayers and enthusiasts in education

Try this at home

Find a fresher

Find a fresher

• Familiarisation for freshers

• Campus locations

• Local areas of interest

• Crowd-source your content!

Field trips

Field trips

• Self-directed field trips

• Rich social media linking

• Competitive or game-like models

Location-based story-telling

Location-based story-telling

• Combine place with narrative

• Learners create their own stories in response to yours

• Reconstruct stories from locations

Thanks!

Thanks!

Miles Metcalfe, Lat: 51.529305, Lon: -0.150504