Image source: a.drian, ‘My life story told by the cellphones I’ve owned’, http://www.flickr.com/photos/7197250@N06/3011533286/
Image source: ‘Wolfram Alpha’ by Johan Larsson, available from http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanl/5131980180
Image source: Stuck in Customs, ‘The Lonely Trinity’, http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/2945608377
Image source: Sam Ilic, ‘Forbes Lake’, http://www.flickr.com/photos/stage88/5079363101/ Figure from Gartner Australia cited in Foo, F. (2011), Apple’s iPhone Leads Australia’s Huge Smartphone Growth, 15 March 2011, The Australian, available from http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/apples-iphone-leads-australias-huge-smartphone-growth/story-e6frgakx-1226021287594
Image source: recompose, HTC TyTN II, http://www.flickr.com/photos/42789343@N00/2303691635/
Image source: Octuplet consumers, Paul Hocksenar, http://www.flickr.com/photos/71038389@N00/3327459367/
Note taking doesn’t have to involve sitting at a desk or computer. With apps such as Evernote you can take notes wherever you are and using a wide range of formats from plain text to images and audio. Web resources to scribbled notes that you’ve taken a picture of. Image source: Octuplet consumers, Paul Hocksenar, http://www.flickr.com/photos/71038389@N00/3327459367/
Image source: Octuplet consumers, Paul Hocksenar, http://www.flickr.com/photos/71038389@N00/3327459367/
Image source: Octuplet consumers, Paul Hocksenar, http://www.flickr.com/photos/71038389@N00/3327459367/
Image source: Octuplet consumers, Paul Hocksenar, http://www.flickr.com/photos/71038389@N00/3327459367/
Given that they effectively give you a mobile studio, learning lab, content creation tool, research assistant – they’re great value! ‘ Bridging the ‘digital divide’ by providing access to learning contexts and user content creation tools that are affordable and increasingly owned by students ’ (Cochrane and Bateman, 2010) Cochrane, T. and Bateman, R., (2010), ‘Smartphones give you wings: Pedagogical affordances of mobile Web 2.0’, Australiasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010, 26(1), 1-14 Image source: InfoMofo, Australian Dollars’, http://www.flickr.com/photos/40689227@N00/139808866/
Image Source: Schtumple, ‘Painting to reality framed’, http://www.flickr.com/photos/schtumple/5760311638/ Thornton, J. (2008), ‘Framing pedagogy, diminishing technology: Teachers experience of online learning software’, Ascilite 2008, Melbourne, available from: http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/procs/thornton.pdf Some of the old frameworks need to be let go. Think beyond the classroom. Flip teaching on its head. Think in terms of activities as the learning and the book learning as preparation.
Image source: Khalid Albaih, The Conversation, http://www.flickr.com/photos/khalidalbaih/5653817859/
Image source: volodimer, My apps with Todos, http://www.flickr.com/photos/volodimer/614637287/
Image source: volodimer, My apps with Todos, http://www.flickr.com/photos/volodimer/614637287/
Image source: David Blackwell, ‘Afterwards Tom and Eric weren’t sure at which point during their discussion the elephant had entered the room’, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobilestreetlife/4179063482/ What are the issues that I should be mentioning at this point? Technological determinism Assumptions of ownership? Privacy of data? Security of devices? Sustainability?
Image source: chrissuderman, ‘Kids in the classroom’, http://www.flickr.com/photos/90772160@N00/248876814/
By the time these children are old enough to get to university… they will do. And it’ll be old technology to them! Image source: chrissuderman, ‘Kids in the classroom’, http://www.flickr.com/photos/90772160@N00/248876814/