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General Area / News & Events / The Spring 2008 issue of RCETJ on Learning While Mobile is now online
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on: April 24, 2008, 07:56:57 PM
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The Spring 2008 issue of RCETJ on Learning While Mobile is now online at http://www.rcetj.org/?type=ci&id= It contains an interesting mix of five articles (a sixth may still be coming, and that's the beauty of electronic publishing  ). Here is the lineup: Bridging the Gap? Mobile Phones at the Interface Between Informal and Formal Learning by John Cook, Norbert Pachler, and Claire Bradley Affordances of PDAs: Undergraduate Student Perceptions by Yanjie Song and Robert Fox The Effect of Information Visualization and Structure on Mobile Learning by Hyungsung Park Using Place as Provocation: In Situ Collaborative Narrative Construction by Deborah Tatar, Steve Harrison, Alli Crandell, and Matthew Shaefer A Personalized Mobile Mathematics Tutoring System for Primary Education by Xinyou Zhao and Toshio Okamoto All articles are freely accessible. If you would like to receive announcements about future issues, please subscribe at http://www.rcetj.org/?type=su&id=Thanks, Mark |
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General Area / General Discussion / Re: Is the mobile device breaking down the wall between teacher and learner?
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on: April 11, 2008, 06:43:02 AM
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This is an interesting post. For the past few years I've done quite a bit of work with regards to mobiles breaking down walls, but they were mostly barriers of space and time, never groups of people (other than access to them). I think it'd be interesting to see in what respects (if any) that mobile devices are breaking down walls between people: teachers and students, administrators and students, parents and students, students and students, parents and teachers, etc. I think it is also high time that we take a more in-depth and systematic look at the barriers that the same devices continue to create between these same groups of people and what effect that has not only on learning, but also on teaching, both inside of schools and out.
Mark
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General Area / News & Events / Re: Becta publishes Emerging technologies for learning volume 3 (2008)
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on: April 08, 2008, 07:02:54 PM
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Well Andy, I was going to post something but you beat me to it  Volume 3 is a nice addition to Becta's yearly series, I'm very happy with the way my piece turned out and proud to be part of a very reputable group of authors (I didn't know who the other authors were until the volume was published last week). Anyway, as Andy said, well worth a read. Mark |
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Technology matters / General Technology Chat / Carnival of the Mobilists
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on: November 14, 2007, 02:49:42 AM
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Carnival of the Mobilists is a weekly write-up of developments in the world of mobile technology, in round-robin style. I've been following it for a while and actually hosted this week's episode, #99). Definitely a different way of writing about mobile than what I'm used to, but a very interesting one nevertheless, and a good way to keep up to date. A new episode is posted every Monday. The recent activities of Google, with the Open Handset Alliance and Android, are particularly interesting, and it remains to be seen what their potential impact on education/learning will be. Go check it out. The Carnival may not be a mobile education resource, but it's a good way to keep your finger on the pulse of the mobile world, and get some interesting commentary to boot!
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General Area / General Discussion / Re: Parental involvement within the digital classroom
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on: November 06, 2007, 06:09:25 PM
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From a personal point of view, I have to say I like email, because it gives me a chance to be in touch with my children's teachers without having to play phone tag, or worse yet, send written notes to school. I'm not sure that at this point in time, given the structure of formal education, real-time communication tools such as IM would be effective, and I believe that when teachers are teaching, they shouldn't be distracted with IM's from parents.
Communication between parents and teachers is a crucial part of a child's education, both from a teacher's and a parent's perspective. Asynchronous digital communication such as email seems to work well. As far as real time contact goes, f2f is still the best.
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General Area / News & Events / Carnival of the Mobilists #99: I'm hosting!!
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on: November 06, 2007, 06:04:09 PM
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All, I’m hosting next week’s Carnival of the Mobilists ( http://mobili.st). I’d like to give next week’s issue more of an educational flavor than normal. If you do any blogging about mobile computing, mobile learning, mobile devices etc. this week, please submit your posts to the Carnival of the Mobilists. It’s easy to do. To submit your blog post to the next edition of carnival of the mobilists send your links to mobilists@gmail.com or use the carnival submission form (full instructions for submission can be found here). Please submit posts no later than Friday as I have to read them all and then write something coherent about all submissions. Past posts and future hosts can be found here and here. I hope to be reading many of your posts by the end of the week! |
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General Area / News & Events / Call for Abstract Submissions -- RCETJ special issue on learning while mobile
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on: November 05, 2007, 07:25:34 PM
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The center I work for (RCET, http://www.rcet.org) is planning a special issue on Learning while Mobile for Spring 2008. We are now soliciting Calls for Abstracts. Note the upcoming deadline (Dec. 7, 2007), but remember this is only a call for abstracts. If you attended mLearn or Handheld Learning and would like to turn your presentation into a publication, this is a great opportunity to do so. Also, we are always looking for innovative submissions, so if you'd like to propose something other than a "traditional" paper, please let us know. A more detailed timeline for submission is posted on the RCETJ site @ http://www.rcetj.orgRCETJ is a peer-reviewed journal. If you have any questions about the issue, please contact me directly or visit http://www.rcetj.org. Thanks!! Here is the official call as posted on the RCETJ site: The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology provides a multimedia forum for the advancement of scholarly work on the effects of technology on teaching and learning. It seeks to provide unique avenues for the dissemination of knowledge within the allied fields of new media and educational technology consistent with new and emerging technology research, theory, application and best practices. This special Spring 2008 multimedia edition seeks to explore innovative uses of mobile technologies and what it means to learn while mobile. Examples of topics include (but are not limited to), learning with mobile devices such as smartphones, handhelds, and other multimedia devices; mobile web; crossing boundaries between formal and informal learning; place-based learning; mobile networks for learning. To have your article considered (even if it is presently in progress) please submit an abstract (250-500 words), BY DECEMBER 7, 2007 to the editors: Mark van't Hooft Alison Bland mvanthoo@kent.edu abland4@kent.edu Please put “Submission for RCETJ issue on Learning While Mobile” in the subject line your email message. Notifications of acceptance/rejection will be sent out by December 14, 2007. Final submissions for the online journal articles are expected to include multimedia evidence and sources that might include: images; illustrations; video; sound; animation; simulation; and links to online data and references. Completed articles and all multimedia source files from selected authors must be submitted by April 4, 2008 for publication in the April 2008 issue. The journal publishes the original, refereed work of researchers and practitioners twice a year in multimedia electronic format. It is distributed free of charge over the World Wide Web to promote dialogue, research, and grounded practice. |
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General Area / News & Events / Re: Thank you for coming!
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on: October 12, 2007, 08:29:09 PM
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And thanks to Graham and his staff and volunteers for hosting an excellent event!  It was my first one and even though my stay in London was short it was more than worth it. I'll post more thorough reflections here or on my blog ( http://ubiquitousthoughts.wordpress.com) as soon as my brain has a chance to recover from the information overload from the past two days. Finally, it was great to be able to finally put some faces with names. Nice to meet all of you who I met!! Mark (who needs to get back to packing for his trip back to the US) |
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