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Wireless and mobile computing:pedagogy and liberal education
NITLE workshops to go2007
Plan of the session1. Hardware2. Infrastructure3. Case studies4. Pedagogies
emergent
http://www.phonebashing.com/, 2003(previous image: “Telezonia”)
One way of looking at it
All of Web 2.0, just more so• Ambient• Accelerating • Annotating
Funeral of John Paul, AP
I. Hardware
Wireless computing uses the radio spectrum, rather than telephone or ethernet cables, to send digital information. The name hearkens back to the earliest days of radio, and appropriately, since wireless computing is very much a young field.
I. Hardware
(Mandatory mobile device slide)
I. Hardware
(Yet another mandatory mobile device slide)
Long., MPH, ksmichel
I. Hardware
Mobile devices with American national security implications
(BB via star27)
I. Hardware
(Still another mandatory mobile device slide) Tnkgrl
I. Hardware
(How many mandatory mobile device slides can there be?)
Carl Berger, Wei Su
I. Hardware
The Bluetooth cyborg
manu contreras
II. Infrastructure
Medium and long range• 802.11x and Wi-Fi (IEEE)• Proprietary Cellular-Wireless
Networks• WiMax
II. Infrastructure
Short range• PAN: Personal Area Networks • Bluetooth: short-range wireless
specification• Infrared (IR) ports for beaming
(Found on BBC site, June 2005)
American unilateralism
III. Case studies
Pedagogies: new forms
John Schott, Carleton College, 2006
III. Cases
Handhelds in class: Stanford Medical classes, East Carolina University's Center for Wireless and Mobile Computing, medical school, OWLS, UM Duluth's handheld pilot, Western Carolina University - Wireless Palm (TLT report), Pittsburgh Pebbles Project; University of South Dakota.
III. Cases
Handhelds out of class• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and
Amsterdam Real Time: SPINlab's GIPSY project
• St. Olaf's Japanese language Clie pilot (http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/asian-studies/japanese/handheldarticle.html)
• Jokkmokk 2004 (HUMlab)
III. Cases
Handhelds and libraries: University of Connecticut Medical Library, Virginia Commonwealth Libraries, British libraries.
III. Cases
• Campus clouds: American University's wireless campus, Carnegie Mellon's Wireless Andrew, Dartmouth's wireless campus, Seton Hall University
(http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/dartmouth.html, http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2002/05/52234, http://www.cmu.edu/computing/wireless/)
III. Cases
Students researching• SUNY Cortland's nature research. • Tremont Consolidated's clam research with Palms
(http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2002/11/56102)
• Experience has shown that portable and wireless computing facilitates data collection, which has certain pedagogical implications. Students have greater facilities for gathering information from the field, thereby. Field researchers can be better integrated with classes (with each other, instructors, experts) through wireless communication:
III. Cases
• Cell phones: bioinformatics on the run (BioWAP and WiGiD); Russian Bible class (Pravda 2004-12, http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/11765_phone.html)
III. Cases
iPaqs, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2002
• uses in class: notetaking, .ppt slides, exercises, polling, reference
• uses outside of class: browsing, email, software– (http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/computing/
ipaq/)
IV. Pedagogies
Emergent pedagogies
• Information on demand
• Time usage changes
• Class/world barrier reduction
• Personal intimacy with units
• Spatial mapping • Mobile,
multimedia, social research
IV. Pedagogies
Students researching
• Googling on demand
• Local digital resources
• Queries to colleagues, experts, dbs, faculty, librarians
• Spatial mapping
IV. Pedagogies
Pedagogy: learning spaces
classroom • one leading pilot space for wireless• arrangements• mode: lecture/lab
campus• other sites: library, residence hall• new learning spaces• chunks of campus
IV. Pedagogies
Pedagogy: learning spaces
external world• increasingly reachable, present• world as syllabus, research field
annotated space• writing to removed units• writing to space, augmenting reality (classic:
Spohrer's "Information in Places")• spatial information: (34 North 118 West /, )
• Pedagogy: learning spaces, example
Volokh Conspiracy, April 2007
IV. Pedagogies emergent
Publishing• Synching MP3 player, Palm, PocketPC,
etc. user to copy materials from a desktop or laptop to their handhelds (AvantGo, Mazingo, PalmReader, Acrobat for Palm, Fictionwise (free ebooks), Microtitles, Peanut Press, SciFi.com, Writing on Your Palm)
• USB drives allow easy, person-to-person file trading. Their low price and good size makes them a publishing option.
IV. Pedagogies emergent
Publishing applications
• Palm Education offers more than one hundred educational applications. Nearspace has released several campus life applications. (http://www.nearspace.com/)
• One can roll one's own, as well. For example, UMDuluth wrote applications for its Pocket PC pilot.
• K-12 applications: Cooties, Geney
IV. Pedagogies emergent
Multitasking• threats: distraction, wandering (NYT
article abstract)• index/stimulus (ECAR study,
Slashdot discussion)• generational issue• practice: shells down, machines
open
IV. Pedagogies emergent
Structural pressures • IT: support, pedagogy• Faculty: pedagogy, development,
reward• Students: class participation• Library: information literacy, db
access• Administration: planning
IV. Pedagogies
Social changes• Swarming: John
Arquilla, David Ronfeldt Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (2001)
• Smartmobs (Howard Rheingold, 2001)