While the entry cost of the device can be quite high, many of the applications can be obtained for a low cost or free of charge. Some of this applications are allowing individuals to express themselves in new ways. Are these new forms of expressions contributing to the informal learning of individuals and to what extent? Will this growing market provide for an increasingly personalized learning experience and what will that look like? A presentation to encourage further discussion.

1. Invisible Learning
On iOS
Emphasizing the Influence of Communities

2. “Knowmads”
Formal Non-formal Informal Serendipitous
Invisible Learning
1- Sociotechnological archetype for a new ecology of education

3. Background to This Presentation
App Collector
• Worked as a
Researcher for CEHD
iPad Initiative (2011)
• Interest in Open
Education, and
Innovation
• Focus on International
Development Testing What is Now Possible
for the “Average” Consumer
The arguments presented in this presentation also apply also to
a large extent to the Android App Market

4. What Tool is It?

5. Credit: Apple
http://www.apple.com/itunes/25-billion-app-countdown/

6. Credit: Apple
http://www.imore.com/2011/12/12/apple-announces-million-ios-apps-18-billion-downloads/

7. Infinite Canvas of Possibilities
Image from Sketchroll - http://sketchrolls.com/

8. Points to Consider
The App:
• Meets Your Need
• Is Well Liked
– (+3 Rating)
• Main Critics Say…
• Better Alternatives
• Last Updated
• Has a Website?
• Has a Community!
CC-BY 2.0 nickstone333 - Flickr

9. Elements of a Learning Community
Community
- Education and Democracy
- Autonomy
Collaborative
Culture
Focus on
- Diversity
Learning - Openness
Result Oriented
Thinking - Interactivity
(Downes, 2011)
Professional Learning Communities – (Jessie, 2007)
http://www.allthingsplc.info/pdf/articles/Lillie%20G.%20Jessie%20PDF.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/knowledge-learning-and-community-elements-of-effective-learning

10. How Does One Develop a Skill?
Lennon and McCartney (Link) had a musical
"The idea that excellence at
gift of the sort that comes along once in a
performing a complex task
generation," he writes. And all that playing
requires a critical minimal level
time shaped their talent, so by the time they
of practice surfaces again and
returned to England from Hamburg, Germany,
again in studies of expertise. In
"they sounded like no one else. It was the
fact, researchers have settled
making of them.“
on what they believe is the
magic number for true
In 1968, a 13-year-old Gates (link) got access
expertise: ten thousand
to a high school computer and logged 10,000
hours."
hours of programming. Gladwell interviewed
Gates, who credits his success to his luck in
Malcolm Gladwell
having that unique access.
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell http://10khproject.com/
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-11-17-gladwell-success_N.htm

11. What is Your Technology
for Self-Expression?
TED - Kevin Kelly on how technology evolves
http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_how_technology_evolves.html

12. http://app.sketchclub.com/

13. Everything is a Remix
Kirby Ferguson
Copying others is most times a necessary step before being able
to transform and combine items in new and meaningful ways.

14. Sketch Club - Example
• Regular Contest and Prices
• Constant Communication and Feedback
• Capacity to Visualize Others Creative Process
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifHltSCZhfo&feature=player_embedded

16. Name: Austin Kleon, @austinkleon
Bio: A writer who draws.
http://blog.instagram.com/

17. http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

18. http://www.smule.com/madpad

19. MadPad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZlubpvztxWY

20. http://www.reactable.com/

21. ReacTj ReacTable Trance live performance @ submixpro studio Torino 02
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgy1S8qymx0

22. http://www.apple.com/education/ipad/

23. Individualized Learning Plan
Construct your Personal Learning Environment
Interests
Music Drawing Math

24. Learning at a Low Cost
Arts
and
Crafts
Reading
Student’s
Formal Informal Experience
iTunes
U
Apps Learning Activity Knowledge

25. Creativity

26. Number of Apps – 07, 2011
App Category Number of Apps Top 3 Grossing iPad Apps by Category
Books 19,565 Comics, Marvel Comics, Cars 2 Storybook Deluxe
Education 11,903 Star Walk for iPad, Proloquo2Go, Inkling
Finance 1,591 MarketWatch Market Data, Pageonce Pro, Stock Genie
Healthcare & Fitness 1,819 Men’s Health Magazine, MyNetDiary, SELF Magazine
Medical 1,947 Visible Body 3D Human Anatomy, Skyscape Medical Resources, modalityBODY
Navigation 1,907 WingX Pro7 Aviation, MotionX GPS Drive HD, iNavX Marine Navigation
Photography 2,288 iMovie, Snapseed, 8mm HD
Reference 4,344 Glo Bible, BibleReader, World Atlas HD
Sports 2,142 Tour de France All Access, MLB.com At Bat 2011, Golf Digest Magazine
Utilities 4,150 Skyfire Web Browser, Boingo Wi-fi Credits, Air Display
Business 3,987 Quickoffice Pro HD, Documents to Go Premium, Splashtop Remote Desktop
Entertaintment 8,059 SlingPlayer Mobile, Vanity Fair, PEOPLE Magazine
Games 15,046 Smurf’s Village, Tap Pet Hotel, Monopoly
Lifestyle 6,402 Cooking Light Recipes, O The Oprah magazine, Creston Mobile Pro G
Music 3,432 GarageBand, djay, AmpliTube
News 3,262 The Daily, New York Post, The New Yorker Magazine
Productivity 3,019 Pages, Numbers, Keynote
Social Networking 1,141 MyPad+, Grindr Xtra, Friendly Plus
Travel 4,699 FlightTrack Pro, FlightTrack, ZAGAT TO GO
Weather 401 ForeFlight Mobile Aviation, Weather+, Garmin Pilot My-Cast Aviation
Total 101,104 Pages, Smurf’s Village, Tap Pet Hotel
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/07/06/ipad-app-store-breakdown-top-apps-
categories-chart/

27. Weather, 401
Social Networking, 1,141
Finance, 1,591
Number of Apps
Healthcare & Fitness, 1,819
Navigation, 1,907
07-’11
Medical, 1,947
Sports, 2,142
Photography, 2,288
Productivity, 3,019
News, 3,262
Music, 3,432
Business, 3,987
Utilities, 4,150
Reference, 4,344
Travel, 4,699
Lifestyle, 6,402
Entertaintment, 8,059
Education, 11,903
Games, 15,046
Books, 19,565

28. iPad Market
A Sustainable Model
Are low cost
applications more
sustainable and a
“fairer” model than
open source software?
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/06/apps-music-future-app-store-report
http://www.asymco.com/2011/06/15/the-app-industry-vs-the-music-industry/

29. iPad Market
A Sustainable Model
http://thingsappleisworthmorethan.tumblr.com/
http://stocktouch.com/

30. Constant Improvement
• Regular Updates
• Copy -> Transform!
Diptic PicFrame Fuzel
Jun 23, ‘10 May 4, ‘11 Feb 29 '12

31. Everything is a Remix
Kirby Ferguson
Copying an Idea leads to its transformation

32. Finding The App
• Look for it!... There is Quite a #
• If it is Not There… Then Build it!
Flickr - CC-BY 2.0 - webtreats

33. What Does This All Mean?
• Thousands of New Ways to Learn
• Individuals can Improve their Skills
• Having the Devices is only one Element
• Good Applications do Stand Out
• Applications with Learning Communities
Behind Them Are Particularly Interesting.