On the Go – FLUID Conference Copenhagen May 2009Ketill Berg Magnússon

Mobile Creativity and Critical Thinking

Technical Trends

Behavioral Trends

Pedagogical Challenges

Internet

Mobile Phones

SMS

Instant Messaging – IM

Social Network Sites

Mobile Internet -> M-learning

327.000 subscribers = 1,03 per inhabitant

38 SMS per person per month - was 19 in 2000

96% age 20–29 on Facebook

98.000 subscribers in Iceland = 1,28 per household

New devices, e.g. Sixth Sense ?http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

Transparency

Shorter and broader attention span

Individualism and collectivityhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHwV2JuwZls

The speed of new ideas

Street design

Chaos

The objectives of education

Pedagogical framework

Is the school ready?

Is the workplace ready?

Additional reacources

Technical trendsMIT researcher Pattie Maes :http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

Behavioral trendsNokia researcher Jan Chipchase: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jan_chipchase_on_our_mobile_phones.html

Michael Wesch: Digital Ethnography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmediatedcultures.net%2Fksudigg%2F%3Fp%3D188&feature=player_embedded

Pedagogical ChallengesMayes and de Freitas (2004): http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/Stage%202%20Learning%20Models%20(Version%201).pdf

http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/programs/resource_documents/eclo_ericsson_edobrien.pdf