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Notebooks for out of classroom activities - and some more whacky ideas

Notebooks for out of classroom activities - and some more whacky ideas. Brian Whalley University of Sheffield b.whalley@sheffield.ac.uk brianbox.net & www.enhancingfieldwork.org.uk/ (Lunchtime Seminar: Beyond Distance Research Alliance, Leicester University, 31 October 2012).

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Notebooks for out of classroom activities - and some more whacky ideas

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  1. Notebooks for out of classroom activities - and some more whacky ideas Brian Whalley University of Sheffield b.whalley@sheffield.ac.uk brianbox.net & www.enhancingfieldwork.org.uk/ (Lunchtime Seminar: Beyond Distance Research Alliance, Leicester University, 31 October 2012)

  2. Computers in Fieldwork – Lyngen Alps, North Norway, 1984 Apple IIe + HDD + CRT Screen + generator+ people to carry them all!

  3. My new "slate"* • Cheap • Light, • convenient • but ....... • not easy to back up, exchange information etc... (even with my ‘upgrades’) • To some extent this also applies to conventional field notebooks: (*From York City Museum, about £3.50)

  4. Neal Stephenson– The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (Diamond Age) Alan Kay– The Dynabook "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Douglas N Adams– The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - ‘The Book’ Bill Moggridge Grid Computer Some people and their concepts

  5. The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer The Book? Not just yet The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer NB, this slide was made pre release of the iPad in April 2010

  6. A well argued thesis for ‘our use of computers as writing tools in light of the history of communication technology’ Oxford 2009 (-1 PiP; Pre-iPad)

  7. And for learners: • ‘Everyone should be able to participate and control their own learning process’ • (Knowles 1987) • Does a VLE (really) allow this?

  8. Personal Learning EnvironmentA definition: • As such, a PLE is a single user’s e-learning system that provides access to a variety of learning resources, and that may provide access to learners and teachers who use other PLEs and/or VLEs. • Mark van Harmelen 2006 • (NB ‘ideas about PLEs are still forming’) • Work by Scott Wilson and Stephen Downes • Technology Enhanced Learning(Dillenbourg)

  9. Maybe the (nascent) PLE is already here ….. On a Mac of course!

  10. Technophobic Luddite Tendency* are not always old fogeys ......... * with acknowledgements to Paul Browning

  11. Where are we now? • and where might we be going? Gary Trudeau, ‘Doonesbury’, Guardian, 2012

  12. Current examples of recent two texts Book examples (pop)

  13. Personalised learning?in personal learning spaces? How do we personalise? and in what learning spaces?

  14. Student information environment Other Personal space Student + Computer (desktop, laptop, ‘netbook’) Rich Internet Applications Personal space Knowledge space Team Space Field space Trip space In the field Educational Spaces PLE … lab, home, library ….

  15. NotebooksIn the field • Can they displace (water-resistant) paper notebooks? • What basic apps do you need? • What 'extra' apps can provide • Can tablets support disabilities - and make things easier in general? • Can you use tablets anywhere?

  16. EFL - ‘Let’s have a go’ events 17

  17. iPad use and usage…. And it does not have to be internet connected

  18. Identities: preferences, needs motivations. Competencies: skills knowledge, abilities Roles; Approaches and modes of participating Learners Learning Environment Tools, resources, artefacts affordances of the physical and virtual environment for learning Specific interaction of learners with other people, using specific tools and resources, oriented towards specific outcomes Learning Outcomes New Knowledge, skills and abilities. Evidence of This and/or artefacts of the learning process Learning activity An outline for a learning activity, Helen Beetham 2007 Others Other people involved and the specific role they play in the interactions, e.g. support, mediate, change, guide

  19. Recommendations ....

  20. Disruptive* Devices?Disruptive Technology?Disruptive Innovation? ‘Disrupting Class - How disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns’ Christensen, Horn and Curtis, 2011 21

  21. What can we do with tablets? • What can’t we do? • What can we do? And where would we like to be and see +5 PiP (Post iPad)? 22

  22. Disruptive innovationand tablets are disruptive technology that can supply this Do you agree?

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