mobled10: the state of mobility
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MoblEd10, a mini conference at Pasadena College, explores the state of our mobile society. This is a brief welcome presentation by Michelle Pacansky-Brock and Michael Berman, offered as a few moments to reflect and ponder on how mobility is affecting the way we live, work, play and learn.TRANSCRIPT
Welcome to
MoblEd10Pasadena City CollegeApril 19-20, 2010
http://MoblEd10.ning.comTwitter: #MoblEd10
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?
Enjoy
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