Daily post 04/30/2012
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Mobile Learning And The BYOD Movement
Deloitte predicts that by the end of the year 2012, 500 million smartphones with a retail price of $100 or less will likely be in use worldwide. Mobile is coming and will probably be BYOD. That thinking needs to inform sour reporting and writing around the iPod project.
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UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning
The first papers in the series are for North and South America but will probably still have useful information about trends relevant to the introduction of learning and our iPod project.
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Interesting paper using a progression of metaphors to present teaching. The idea of the screenface as a way of avoiding distraction of designing for and discussing specific devices may have useful insights for learning and our current projects with iPods.
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Scaffolded integration of Web 2.0 in teaching – Ethos Community
some useful ideas about working web 2.0 tools into teaching in a systematic way
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I think these may still not be available in Australia but they will be and will be a lot of fun for developing ideas and understanding around algorithms and programming.
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Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really.
via @wfryer & Summify. Specifying curriculum as performance rather than knowledge to be learned makes sense. Knowledge is a by product of learning rather than the goal. If we took this on we would need to rethink much of what we do and would no longer have a neat line of knowledge boxes. That might be the answer to creating a pedagogy of abundance for an age when information is so plentiful.
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Mapping Digital Competence: Towards a Conceptual Understanding
New EU report with a conceptual map for Digital Competence as a foundation for digital usage (professional/discipline application) and digital transformation (innovation/creativity). 60+ pages of PDF lays out the case thoroughly and might be a useful source for thinking about how teachers should be prepared.
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