Phone Questions
From Horizon Project
[edit] The 2007 Horizon Report: Toward a Research Agenda
The annual Horizon Report, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. A central focus of the discussion of each technology is its relevance for teaching, learning, and creative expression.
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With the release of the fourth edition in this annual series, the NMC is undertaking for the first time a concerted, international effort to describe a research agenda based on the six practices and technologies featured in the 2007 edition of the Horizon Report. You are invited to participate in this process, contribute to the discussion, and help shape directions for future research in these topics across higher education.
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[edit] What are the missing pieces for Your Phone: The Gateway to Your Digital Life to be implemented in higher education?
- Infrastructure to support the use of mobile phones on campus (i.e. access of speed to web)
- Infrastructure--speeds will have to be faster for it to be a useful web-based tool.
- Standard interoperability, compelling application, scalability, annoyance factor
- Replace landlines in residences with mobile phones. No deals from vendors; student market saturated. Wireless access points on campus.
- Faculty will produce content. Will this technology become ubiquitous?
- How do we address the digital divide?
- Access to mobile phones with consistent capabilities. Mobile phones can be independent of campus systems. Many support systems would need to be implemented.
- Collaboration--partnership between the industry and academia. Ability to share across phones, screen size to project.
- Size of work space, agreements/collaborations with providers.
- Ability to center on one technology. Needs to be secure, yet able to be used by all.
- Minimum capability standards, interoperability.
- Affordable data transfer plans, standards (WAP), faculty training, content reformatting.
- Interoperability, cost, compelling application, scalability.
- Service provider influence on faculty pedagogy.
- Equity (economy), compatibility, fluency for faculty; Access--signal, physical (phone); imagination--how we envision what a mobile phone is and what it can be used for.
- Technical rules and tools that allow easy migration of audio and video into a mobile comm. format. Process models for faculty integration and training.
- Minimum standards. Perhaps pbea for replacement by students of their 200 minutes to computer-sawed conversation.
- Adoption is high as a phone, but low for other feature set
- Lack of network coverage for cingular (platform for iPhone)
- Would this technology have helped for communication in the tragedy that happened at Virginia Tech?
[edit] What kind of research would you like to see around this topic?
- Access to mobile phones to all. Cost of use (will text messaging be free to all)? Will students want to integrate this into a learning environment vs. social only?
- Can we identify a relevant pedagogical toolset that works well with this form factor?
- Standards, interoperability, compelling application, scalability, annoyance factor.
- Faculty buy-in, time for training, worth investment, use beyond podcasting, clicking...
- Will students want instruction on their cell phones? What are the practical applications of teaching and learning?
- Is it about the transmission of information or generation of knowledge?
- Who pays for them? How supported? How regulated? How would you support collaboration? How would you integrate with other systems? Could they use these for personal use?
- How will industry and academia share in the development/experimentation for the use of these in teaching and learning? Culture: How will we expand faculty knowledge and their "horizon" to see mobile phones and "connectedness" as of value to the learning enterprise?
- Acceptance of educators and students of the use of phones as tools in the "classroom" (f2f or virtual). Many people view their phone as "their space".
- Continuity of product for all. How would it be used to benefit learning?
- What is it really going to be used for: content delivery? Assessment?
- Do students want formal education on personal/social devices?
- Interoperability, cost, compelling application, scalability
- Interoperability and security
- What is the sweet spot that's going to help us?
- "Proven" advantages instructionally.
- In-depth survey of current and projected use. Predict intro of virtual keyboards. "Shrink content".
- Use of devices as media capture tools
[edit] What are the learning implications of Your Phone: The Gateway to Your Digital Life?
- Audio and video and web in a small form factor. Everywhere, anytime, learning on your timeframe.
- Ubiquity (or potential ubiquity) means this can be focus of synchronous learning activities "unlimited" by technology. Signal everywhere, light enough to be carried by everyone conveniently.
- Feedback--instantaneous
- Storage vs. access to information, accessibility lines--hearing, vision.
- Information even more available
- How would students and faculty achieve the paradigm shift from phones being used strictly for communication to a learning tool/medium?
- Students already care about this topic and would have no difficulty adopting ti. Already ubiquitous. Anytime, anywhere use. We need an "eduphone"! Need to have flash drive capabilities, reliable service.
- If truly global, the connections and expansion of cultural literacy. Global for peace!
- Endless...especially internationally in countries where infrastructure is an issue.
- Mass dissemination of data and information. Greatly increase use of "unconventional learning spaces".
- Small screen vs applicable image size viewability.
- Field research w/GPS.
- How do we leverage device for anytime, anywhere learning?
- Changes to pedagogy
- Make this an ed tool. Making the leap of use for social and use for legally.
- 24 hr. connection. Text archiving with permission amplifier discussion board. Classroom presentation. Clicker?
- learning the variety of software - thought of keeping up is scary
- use of phones as media tool for social change
