Has the 1:1 Classroom Era Arrived?

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Has the 1:1 Classroom Era Arrived?

« on: September 09, 2008, 05:39:10 AM »

About six months ago, Dr. Tak Wai Chan, a very well-known mobile learning researcher from Taiwan, posted a message to the g1to1 forum (http://www.g1to1.org), entitled "Has the 1:1 Classroom Era Arrived". I got permission to repost it to my blog, with some comments. It's really an interesting account of the last 10 years or so in mobile learning from his point of view and definitely worth a read. Instead of reposting the entire blog post here, let me just point you to:

http://ubiquitousthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/has-the-11-classroom-era-arrived/

Let me know what you think about all of this, either here or on my blog.
Thanks!


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Mark van 't Hooft
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Re: Has the 1:1 Classroom Era Arrived?

« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2008, 06:06:05 PM »

Thanks Mark for drawing this to our attention. There's a lot of useful info though I feel he has missed the appeal and usefulness to young people of handheld devices. He mentions the Ti calculator and doesn't develop why it's good. I dunno what others think but it seems to be adults that have problems with handheld screen size when using the devices to support learning not kids.


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Re: Has the 1:1 Classroom Era Arrived?

« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2008, 06:46:52 PM »

Jocelyn,
I would agree with you on the screen size issue. It's something that we already found in the Palm Education Pioneer research we did back in 2001-2002, and has resurfaced over and over again. I would think this is an issue that will eventually disappear as the younger generations are coming of age and enter the teaching profession (which actually should already be happening).


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Re: Has the 1:1 Classroom Era Arrived?

« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2008, 03:40:07 PM »

Quote from: Mark van 't Hooft on December 02, 2008, 06:46:52 PM

I would think this is an issue that will eventually disappear as the younger generations are coming of age and enter the teaching profession (which actually should already be happening).

As oft quoted, I've yet to hear anybody under the age of 16 complain about the screen size of their PSP, DS, iPod or mobile phone!

I do see a lot of poorly designed software from developers and publishers locked in a 20th century mindset where they expect a one size fits all and access from a single device mentality.

Reality check: it's not about 1:1 access anymore. It's not even about mobile.

People will and are accessing their digital materials using a variety of devices from a digital storage cloud. This could be a phone or a 50" HD TV with a PS3 and everything in between.

You'll find this site for examples scales on all W3C compliant browsers so can be used on a iPhone, Nintendo Wii, laptop, HD-TV, etc, i.e. wherever is convenient for the user.

Blame our web guru, Marcin, he's a genius Cheesy


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