Mobile Technologies Not Online Technologies Will

Mobile Technologies – Not Online Technologies – Will Disrupt Class Cathleen Norris, Ph. D Regents Professor, University of North Texas Elliot Soloway, Ph. D Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan 1

Today’s Story • The 800 LB Gorilla - Squash him!! • So, Where IS Education Going? • Easily Believable Prediction • NOT Easily Believable Prediction • Conclusion: Mobile Technologies – not online technologies – will disrupt class 2

800 LB Gorilla Pro: • Delivers personalized instruction… …at lower cost • Recent SRI Data: …online is better than f 2 f Con: • Delivery model is fundamentally flawed 3

Delivery Model 4

800 LB Gorilla Pro: • Delivers personalized instruction… …at lower cost • Recent SRI Data: …online is better than f 2 f Con: • Delivery model is fundamentally flawed • Data? … look again 5

8 LB Gorilla Pro: • Delivers personalized instruction… …at lower cost • Recent SRI Data: …online is better than f 2 f Con: • Delivery model is fundamentally flawed • Data? … look again 6

Easily Believable Prediction Today Tomorrow Concordia & e. Concordia Michigan Virtual High & Ann Arbor High School 17 th Century Buildings (UK) 21 st Century Buildings Building Schools of the Future Norris & Soloway 7

Easily Believable Prediction Today Tomorrow D E Concordia & e. Concordia D N E L B Michigan Virtual High & Ann Arbor High School 17 th Century Buildings (UK) 21 st Century Buildings Building Schools of the Future Norris & Soloway 8

NOT Easily Believable Prediction Mobile Technologies – not online technologies – will disrupt class Examples: K-12 Daily life Norris & Soloway 9

Trinity Meadows Intermediate, Keller, TX The cellphone computer at the hub of activity ESSENTIAL

Nan Chiau Primary School – Singapore Essential Learning My Way!

Nan Chiau Primary School – Singapore Seamless Learning (Distance Learning) 12

St Marys, OH Collaboration

NOT Easily Believable Prediction “Everything I thought about cellphones in classroom was wrong. ” Ron Myers, Principal, Keller, ISD Screen size, keyboard size, theft, discipline problems, breakage, utility for learning, test scores…. . Norris & Soloway 14

NOT Easily Believable Prediction Daily Life Examples Norris & Soloway 15

Mobile Generation NOT Digital Generation “Outside of school, technology is essential to their lives.

NOT Easily Believable Prediction Big Screen TV vs 160 x 160 Norris & Soloway 17

e. Books. . . In K-12 Mobile 21 st Century Learning – enabled!

e. Books… Outside of K 12 e. Book sales are finally zooming after more than a decade in the doldrums-e. Books finally could be about to break into the mainstream. e. Book sales reported to the Association of American Publishers have been rising sharply since the beginning of 2008, just after the release of the Kindle. downloads of e. Reading applications for smart phones have far outnumbered the Kindles sold. Five of the ten best-selling novels in Japan were originally cellphone novels, written in the short sentences characteristic of text messaging. 19

NOT Easily Believable Prediction Daily Life Examples Norris & Soloway 20

NOT Easily Believable Prediction “The <mobile> computer revolution hasn’t even begun yet. ” Alan Kay, 1996, <Elliot> “Everything I thought about cellphones in classroom was wrong. ” Ron Myers, Principal, Keller, ISD, TX “Just had a teaching 1 st!! Introduced my phones today and I just had about 10 kids say, "I don't want to go to recess!!!" AWESOME!” Mandy Vehorn, 4 th grade teacher, Celina, OH “Outside of school, technology is essential to their lives. ” Julie Evans, Speak Up Day “Mobile technology is the one technology that can close the digital divide. ” Cathie Norris & Soloway 21

NOT Easily Believable Prediction “The <mobile> computer revolution hasn’t even begun yet. ” Alan Kay, 1996, <Elliot> “Everything I thought about cellphones in classroom was wrong. ” Ron Myers, Principal, Keller, ISD, TX “Just had a teaching 1 st!! Introduced my phones today and I just had about 10 kids say, "I don't want to go to recess!!!" AWESOME!” Mandy Vehorn, 4 th grade teacher, Celina, OH “Outside of school, technology is essential to their lives. ” Julie Evans, Speak Up Day “Mobile technology is the one technology that can close the digital divide. ” Cathie Norris & Soloway 22

Today’s Story • The 800 LB Gorilla - Squash him!! • So, Where IS Education Going? • Easily Believable Prediction • NOT Easily Believable Prediction • Conclusion: Mobile Technologies – not online technologies – will disrupt class Norris & Soloway 23

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