I read another blogger today saying the Apple’s tablet is not as important as the content and then going on about the new media subscription platforms that may appear with the iTablet to be announced tomorrow. However, I believe Apple’s intrinsic contribution of value is beyond even their innovative approach to content delivery.
Apple’s real contribution to the world of technology is » More: Apple’s Contribution is More than Content and Devices
Why will the highly anticipated Apple tablet – suspected to be called iSlate – transform the brick and mortar classroom as well as the way teachers interact with students? Will learning be affected? Will learning improve? Will the improvement be worth the investment of time and money required to adopt and adapt to the new technologies with which we will shortly collide?
Those who resist the forthcoming changes will find it difficult to adapt and adopt. Those who embrace the changes will discover new opportunities to engage and learn both individually and collaboratively. Society always merges with its adopted technologies. The coming innovations are reflective of our desire to » More: Apple Tablet iSlate will have Transformative Effect on Education, Teaching, & Learning…
Apple’s iPhone/iTouch/iTunes ecosystem “may prove to be the fastest ramping and most disruptive technology product / service launch the world has ever seen
Perhaps the most remarkable statement in the report is that the Mobile Internet market will be “at least 2x size of Desktop Internet,” which Morgan Stanley bases on analysis comparing Internet users with mobile subscribers.
Combine these reports with this week’s headlines that Africa has the highest per capita concentration of cell phones (surprise), and we can easily see where education is heading (or at least where it ‘needs’ to head).
The next generation is mobile. Education must be available to this mobile generation. Textbooks will be electronified NOT simply because it’s green and saves trees. It’s about delivery to the mobile masses. KurzweilAI.com announced it’s own e-book breakthrough this past week. It is open source and platform transforming rather than device-centric .
Educators, above all, should be able to think beyond the linear, boxed-in paradigms up which it has rested for decades, and take advantage of the new mobile platforms before us. It seems unfortunate that rather than switch, the behemoth institution would rather fight to retain their hierarchical position that is trending inevitably toward extinction.
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This article explains well, the soon coming developments in augmented reality (AR) which will surely transform the classroom experience from the either/or face-to-face or virtual to real-time experiences augmented with live-feed data. Teachers will need to facilitate learning much differently than today. Mentoring, coaching, guiding, will take on new look. Click the spectrum link under the image above to read the full article.
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So much has defined this past decade, but imagine what it would be like if the past 9 years were the only years you had lived through. Yahoo! News editor Allison Louie-Garcia spoke to fourth graders in Orange County, Calif. to get some perspective on the ’00s from those who have only experienced it. From naming the biggest celebrities, to discussing computer habits, to explaining 9/11, these 9-year-olds’ answers–often funny, sometimes sobering, always candid–offered a clear snapshot of life in the 21st Century.
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Special thanks to Ms. Lim and her wonderful 4th grade class.
Here’s a nifty interview of some West coast children and their ideas of the world from their 9 year old perspective.
A great lesson plan idea for teachers, no? Students consider what questions to ask, interview their peers, and record their answers. Would be interesting to map the trends of greatest hopes and biggest fears among various age groups.
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If we agree that the morphing networked world is about conversation, then we can picture the changes this way:
The new, real-time platform is unique because it will be enhanced by APIs that can mashup our interactions in order to shape new communities hitherto unattainable.
When we understand that technology is innovated to improve social communication, we become less device and application focused and more interactive. Hence, the social media phenomenon is here to stay and will increase in intensity as new mashup applications develop to aid our intrinsic need to share.
The challenge for education is that historically, assessment of knowledge is individually based. This makes perfect sense because it’s difficult to give a degree to someone who doesn’t demonstrate command of some particular knowledge-domain they have studied. However, the real-world of business does not run on individual talents as much as team efforts.
Pedagogical application has responded with case-based, project-oriented, and portfolio-developing lesson plans. But in the end, standardized testing still focuses on individual regurgitation of memorized facts. This is a senseless contradiction at best and reflects a broken system that needs to be redesigned to enter the 21st Century.
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Gerd Leonhard makes some great points in three minutes. Mobile driven instant feedback mechanisms may mean your business no longer exists virtually. Are we allowing our customer eco-systems to be fed a balanced diet? Whether you believe in the value of crowd sourced data or not, it can make or break a business.
New models must be adopted that enable the crowd to have more control than is traditionally allowed by old business models. Nevertheless, it’s the open source, creative commons world we are entering. We don’t have a choice. We’re on a collision course. Brace yourselves.
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I’m reminded of the axiom that we measure what we value but what we love, we protect. This 3 minute video explains pretty well why that is and why new business models must reach for more than trust, performance, and respect. As Saachi advertising gurus brought out last year, trademarks must be replaced by lovemarks.
We live in an experience market more than a consumer market. Sustainable experiences are those experiences we love and to which we want to come back and invite others.
What about education? What model do we use in the design of our schools and the learning we deliver? Are we meeting the needs of stakeholders? We would do well to reconsider, rethink, redesign, and reconstruct from the ground up.
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This is a good example of how the old business model is so entrenched within the educational institution, that we can’t see for forest for the trees. Experienced, retired professors are willing to teach for free. But we can’t figure out how to make that work. Hmm… perhaps because money interests outweigh education interests? Is that a crowded football stadium I hear roaring??
Where are our priorities? Look what Open University is doing (started by retired professors I remind you). With all our brains, we can’t figure out how to make a new model sustainable? I find that hard to believe. What is easier to believe is that the discomfort faced by the entrenched at the thought of losing their jobs, prevents them for doing their job which is to educate the next generation.
If our forefathers had this attitude when founding our Nation, we wouldn’t have a nation. Self sacrifice for the common and future good took precedence over personal comforts. Who wants to make a difference? really??
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