Cell Phones & m-learning

1. Cell Phones & m-learning

2. Research: Phone • Analog Motorola DynaTAC 8000X Advanced Mobile Phone System mobile phone as of 1983 • The first commercially automated cellular network (the 1G generation) was launched in Japan by NTT in 1979 (Wikipedia, 2010), para. 8).

3. Matching Innovation to Need

4. Critical Mass: Cell Phone In a span of only 20 years, wireless services have reached almost 50 percent of the world’s population. There are now more than 3 billion mobile subscribers globally, a number expected to grow to 4.5 billion by 2012. (TrainingIndusty Inc. (2010)

5. NEW MEDIA(um) Technology

6. Need: Technology Uses for social networks 26%; tutoring other students 24%; playing an online game or simulation 18%; finding experts to help 13%; (Speak Up Report, 2009).

7. Need: Technology Uses posting to a blog 12%; sending tweet about topic 10%; starting a wiki or blog 9%; creating video/podcast to share knowledge 8%; finding an online tutor 7% (Speak Up Report, 2009).

8. Research: m-learning A number of institutions are utilizing cell phones in a variety of ways to enhance learning. Notable: International Society for Technology in Education | Home.

9. Research: Digital Storytelling Others are using digital storytelling and have begun to explore the cell phone as a development media: http://www.storycenter.org/ http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/ http://www.storymapping.org/ http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2392

10. Strategies for Adoption Innovators: Teaching and Learning Center Associates Early Adopters: Introduction via Workshop Classroom trial Laggards: uncomfortable with new technology not necessarily uncomfortable with cell phones

11. Strategies for Adoption Diffusion: decentralized through peers Among the faculty Opinion Leaders and Change Agents will provide feedback on their experiences. (Rogers, 2003)

12. Critical Mass: m-learning which of the four strategies for achieving critical mass do you recommend to the Board for your innovation? (Rogers, 2003)

13. Critical Mass: m-learning Attributes or Strategies to Appeal to Faculty relative advantage compatibility complexity observably (Rogers, 2003)

14. iPhones/Cell Phones

15. iPhones/Cell Phones CONSTRUCTIVIST

16. Need & Use

17. Justification:

18. What problems did your innovation encounter in the development process? Generally, problems are difficult to find in the literature.

19. Who was the intended audience for your innovation? Consumers

20. Commercialization:

21. Production Current production is world-wide.

22. Manufacturing There are issues about sustainability and green manufacturing.

23. Packaging Cell phones are package in numerous ways –often over-packaged in terms of green.

24. Marketing and Distribution • According to Wikipedia: “There are over 600 mobile operators and carriers in commercial production worldwide. Over 50 mobile operators have over 10 million subscribers each, and over 150 mobile operators have at least one million subscribers by the end of 2008 (source wireless intelligence) ,“(Wikipedia, 2010, para. 44).

25. References • Jonassen, D. H., Peck, K. L., & Wilson, B. G. (1999). Learning with Technology: A Constructivist Perspective. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill. • Manovich, L. (2001). The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. • Speak Up National Findings. (2009). Retrieved from www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SUNationalFindings2009.pdf • TrainingIndustry, Inc. (2010). Retrieved from https://www1.gotomeeting.com/en_US/island/webinar/registrationPost.tmpl?Action=rgoto&_sf=4 • Williams, D. (n.d.). Using Technology to Extend LearningBeyond the Classroom. Retrieved from http://music.utsa.edu/tdml/conf-VI/VI-Williams.html

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