tablets, smartphones, and mobile apps
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A presentation to the VCCS Advisory Council of Presidents (ACOP) in February of 2012 on the potential offered by mobile devices to fundamentally transform teaching and learning.TRANSCRIPT
TABLETS, SMARTPHONES, & MOBILE APPS
Richard Sebastian, Director of Teaching & Learning [email protected]
& the future of teaching & learning
AAKASH
The growth of mobile technologies is unprecedented
There are over 7+ billion people in the world
5.3 billion of them are phone subscribers
In 2009, more than half a billion people accessed the Internet through a mobile device.
This number is expected to double within 5 years
More than 8 trillion text messages were sent in 2011 alone
In the past year, mobile searches have quadrupled
Source: Flurry, comScore, Alexa
Jeff Haynie, @jhaynie
Mobile in 2007
Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)
2008: Apple still rules
Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)
2009: Winds of change from Android
Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)
2010:The iPad hit.So did Android.
Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)
December 2010: Mobiles Out ShipDesktops
Desktop Mobile
2012: Mobile Chaos
Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)
April 2011
AppStore569,000+ apps
10,000,000,000+ billion downloads
iBooks2iBooks Author
iTunesU
It’s not just about
(sorry, Jack)
It’s not just about
iPad
Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)
It’s not about
VS
It’s about
(i.e. learning)
How do tablets, smartphones, and apps fundamentally change
teaching & learning?
Hint:
They don’t
But they do allow us to RETHINK teaching and learning
The growth of mobile technologies is unprecedented
Thank you!Liberally borrowed and
adapted from Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie) and yiibu