Education Unplugged: Mobile Learning Comes of Age

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Education Unplugged Mobile Learning Comes of Age

• Hysteria, History, and Histrionics

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Hysteria
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What is Mobile Learning?

• the intersection of mobile computing and
  e-learning accessible resources wherever you
  are, strong search capabilities, rich
  interaction, powerful support for effective
  learning, and performance-based assessment.
  eLearning independent of location in time or
  space. - Clark Quinn, 2000

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• A new m-learning architecture will support
  creation, brokerage, delivery and tracking of
  learning and information contents, using ambient
  intelligence, location-dependence,
  personalization, multimedia, instant messaging
  (text, video) and distributed databases. Field
  trials cover blended learning (as part of
  formal courses) adventitious,
  location-dependent learning (during visits to
  museums) and learning to interpret information
  sources and advice (acquiring medical
  information for everyday needs). The high
  connectivity and functionality may lead to new
  group behaviors, akin to the SMS phenomenon.

(UK) (FI) (IT) (DE) (CH) (US) (AU) (ES)
(GR) (IL)
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What Have We Been Smoking?

• Predictions of the effects of technology are
  notoriously
• Too ambitious in the short term
• Too modest in the long term, and
• Usually miss the real point.
• E-learning is still tied to traditional
  instructional models (that have little to do with
  mobility)
• Fundamental issues need to be resolved
• Ownership Distribution Channels
• Technology Standards

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History
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History

• 1989 NCTM Standards
• Scientific calculators with graphing capabilities
  will be available to all students at all times.
• A computer will be available at all times in
  every classroom for demonstration purposes, and
  all students will have access to computers for
  individual and group work.

CASIO FIRST GRAPHING CALCULATOR, 1985
Photo by Mark Bollman
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History

• 2000 NCTM Principles and Standards for School
  Mathematics
• Technology is essential in teaching and learning
  mathematics it influences the mathematics that
  is taught and enhances students' learning.
• When technological tools are available, students
  can focus on decision making, reflection,
  reasoning, and problem solving.

GRAPHING CALCULTOR FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL - 1995
Photo by Mark Bollman
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YET

• Maybe its not about technology

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Tatar, D., Roschelle, J., Vahey, P., Penuel, W.
(2003). Handhelds Go to School Lessons Learned.
Computer 36 (9). IEEE Computer Society.
Photo by Mark Bollman
CALCULTORS DO SYMBOLIC ALGEBRA (Mid 1990s)
Emerging research architectures Emerging research architectures Emerging research architectures
Feature M-learning C-learning
Paradigm Lecture, seminar Hands-on projects, collaborative groups
Use of medium Media designed to deliver information Tools designed to support inquiry  
Student input Writing free-form text Constructing graphs, animations, questions
Communication Mostly online discussion with little support from shared non-textual referents Face-to-face discussion supported by shared attention to data, drawings, graphs, and text
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ACCESSIBLE

• UBIQUITOUS
• 87 of public school classrooms had Internet
  access in 2001
• BUT 4 5 students per connected computer
• AFFORDABLE
• 500?
• 200?
• 100?
• 50?
• PORTABLE

A COMPUTER ON EVERY DESKTOP
A COMPUTER IN EVERY BACKPACK
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AND ONLINE
TI Navigator
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But Why Cant We All Just Get Along?

• TDMA
• CDMA
• GSM
• GPRS
• iMODE
• UMTS

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MPEG LA Announces OMA DRM Patent License
TermsDENVER - MPEG LA announced today that an
initial group of essential patent holders
including ContentGuard Holdings, Inc., Intertrust
Technologies Corp., Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co., Ltd., Koninklijke Philips
Electronics N.V. and Sony Corporation have
reached tentative agreement on the terms of a
joint patent portfolio license to be offered by
MPEG LA for use of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
DRM 1.0 specification. The companies were
convened in response to MPEG LA's call for
essential patents ( http//www.mpegla.com/news/n_0
4-07-20_drm.pdf ). The proposed OMA DRM Patent
Portfolio License is expected to cover products
that use the OMA DRM 1.0 specification, as well
as those which use both OMA DRM 1.0 and 2.0.
Under the proposed License, royalty rates for
patents essential to OMA DRM 1.0 in connection
with products that have OMA DRM 1.0 functionality
or OMA DRM 1.0 and OMA DRM 2.0 functionality
would be (a) US1.00 per device (payable by the
party that offers the device to an end user) and
(b) 1 of any transaction in which an end user
pays for delivery of a digital asset employing
OMA 1.0 (payable by the service provider). OMA
DRM 2.0 essential patents may be added as a
result of a pending call issued by MPEG LA on 23
September 2004 ( http//www.mpegla.com/news/n_04-0
9-23_drm.pdf ).
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HISTRIONICS (Convergence).
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Information
Content
GroupWare
Collaboration
The Web
WAP / WML
Mobile Phones
WiFi
Access
Communication
Flash
Digital Libraries
Calculators
Multimedia
Validation
Pedagogy