moving at the speed of learning: a case for the ipod touch in schools

Jonathan Nalder Learning Support Teacher, Project Officer (Transformational & Mobile Learning: One Laptop per Child Australia)

[email protected] www.slidetolearn.info

Moving at the speed of Learning

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

About me?- Learning support teacher at Tullawong SS, a low socio-economic school. Currently working to support teachers state-wide.

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One Laptop per Child Australia


The other mobile learning appliance I work to support - remote schools - let me know if you are heading to teach there or if you already do.- The XO laptop is similar to the iPod touch in its companion device capacity - extends ICT to personal and mobile spaces

Where are you at on the iDevice adoption curve?


Where are you at on the iDevice adoption curve at present?

?


- NB. if more than a couple of devices, need to consider app syncing policy

future life ?


Do you ponder what the future life of our students will be?- I’m going to present a case for all students, wether deaf or not, then look at specifically how it relates

therefore, Teacher = prep for future life

Assumption: Education = prep for future life


I do ponder this - because of these assumptions and what they imply for my job as a teacher.

once jobs = factory, routine, repetitive, skilled based


once school = factory, routine, repetitive, skilled basedschool


therefore, if the jobs students would grow up to do where linear and routine, so naturally was schooling

Teacher - content - student - test

once


Linear progression of learning, start and stop point.

other students

teacher

library

the world

learning

once


Teacher main focus/ source of everything

knowledge explodes


Columbia Journalism ReviewSource: The Week magazine, April 17, 2009, volume 9, issue 408, page 17 Columbia Journalism ReviewThe weekly column "Noted"

“In 2006, the world produced 161 ‘exabytes’ of digital information—3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written.”

Slide courtesy of ADE Coordinator Maxx Judd.


new challenges emerge


Nothing ever stays the same - Rome about 600 years, middle ages 600 years, Renaissance 250 years, Industrial rev 250 years, and now, dealing with effects of industrial revolution as digital revolution gets underway- However, since the days of linear, factory education, knowledge has exploded & many new challenges emerged (c High Noon)

Greenhouse gas emissionsDeforestationBiodiversity lossFisheries DepletionWater ShortagesEtc.

High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them


JS Rischard - 20 global problems, twenty years to solve them - summarises 20 biggest problems and what they have in common - which is they are getting worse and standard strategies aren’t working - need a new approach to problem solving- my parents haven’t solved them, my generation is running out of time + our way of thinking hasn’t worked - need new thinking ‘High Noon’ J F Rischard www.amazon.com/High-Global-Problems-Years-Solve/dp/0465070108

ubiquitous, ‘everyware’ computing is on the horizon

www.myswissarmyknife.com


Just think how many mobile computing devices you own already - they already outnumber more ‘traditional’ computing. If computing then is everywhere, so must be learning

http://www.myswissarmyknife.com

http://www.myswissarmyknife.com

40%

46%

53%

59%

65%

1960 1970 1980 1990 2002

Complex Communications

Expert Thinking

Routine Cognitive

Routine Manual

The Demand for Skills has Changed

Levy and Murnane for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Slide courtesy of ADE Coordinator Maxx Judd.

Wednesday, 14 July 2010By 2002, routine manual skills were needed in only 40% of jobs. Complex skills were already needed in 64% of jobs. Imagine what the trends on the graph would show today?

jobs now = creative, complex, problem solving

school now = creative, complex, problem solvingschool


New assumption: If jobs primarily need workers with complex skills, then schools must provide them

meteotek08


Student project extraordinaire: fly balloon to space and take photographs http://teslabs.com/meteotek08 - this is what students today, with cheap digital tech and creative, complex, higher order thinking can achieve

what does a complex classroom look like?


Bloo

m’s

taxo

nom

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1950‘s: a higher order model emerges:


people have been thinking about a more complex classroom since the 1950’s

2001: an old model repurposed:

Bloo

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sed

taxo

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yL. Anderson


Taxonomy was revised by student of Blooms’ 2001 - verbs instead of nouns.

remembering

understanding

applying

analysing

evaluating

creating

Bloom’s digital taxonomyBloom’s digital taxonomy


here it is mapped against mobile devices.

Revision by A. Churches

Bloo

m’s digital t

axon

omy


Now adapted by Andrew Churches to include references for a digital world - google him and ‘wiki’ for great resources

Teacher - content - student - test

once


remember where we said learning was?

task & content & assessment = new content

now


how about this: all in together, combined, because thats real life - and no longer linear- plus it ends with new content being created, produced and published

Challenge Based Learning:

Essential Question

The Challenge

Big Idea

Guiding Questions Guiding ActivitiesGuiding ResourcesWeb and iTunes U

Publishing - Student Samples Publishing - Student Reflection

Assessment

Solution - Action

ali.apple.com/cbl


Challenge Based Learning model is one option to use.Big idea: voting, then ask what, when, where, whyEssential Qns: how effect me, why important to me? How do elections effect my community?Challenge: choose one that has action involved: how improve voter turnout?- See from slide 45 for how I applied this at my school

need agility

Assumption: Life = always learning


so, based on demands of the future, not past, we can make a new assumption.And that means - agility, flexibility to survive

flow...

other students

teacher

teacher

the world

learning


learning in a modern classroom should not sit still

flows...other students

teacher

the world (web)

learning

needs...

now


in fact its now more like thisBUT how can 3 PCs at the back of the room, or 2 hours a week lab time, or even power hungry, 2 mins just to start up laptops keep up?

flows...other students

teacher

the world (web)

learning

Moments of learning need:> Gottfredson

1. Learning for the first time

2. Learning more

3. Remembering or applying

4. Things go wrong

5. Things change


summary of when learning occurs - the last 3 are not so well addressed by standard teaching, but mobile devices in students own hands could really help - ‘just in time’ not ‘just in case’ learning

need mobility


to keep up with the complex classroom & be truly agile and flexible in learning, you need mobility

2008: more students at my school have a mobile device (not incl. a phone) than regularly use a PC.


2009: shipments of smartphones outgrew shipments of PC’s and Laptops


2010: students aged 7-16 in the UK are now more likely to own a mobile than a book> National Literacy Trust


other students

teacher

the world (web)

learning


only a converged, easy to use device can interface with and react at the speed of complex learning - Just in time, not just in case

How do the iPhone, iPod touch & iPad fit with complex learning?


need blank slate

ready to become whatever a student needs


Devices that are locked into one or other functionality won’t do it. Must be one that is as agile and adaptable as learning itself is - a blank slate ready to become whatever the student needs.

need blank slate

ready to become whatever a student needs


Devices that are locked into one or other functionality won’t do it. Must be one that is as agile and adaptable as learning itself is - a blank slate ready to become whatever the student needs. Whatever app you (or student) chooses to load, thats what it becomes.

“I don’t have to change

myself to fit the device,

it fits me” Jony Ive, iPad designer.


The product is pretty much defined by a single piece of multi-touch glass, and thats it. There is no pointing device, there isn’t even a single orientation, there is no up, no down, there is no right or wrong way of holding it. I don’t have to change myself to fit the device, it fits me. - Jony Ive 2010

140,000+ apps5 billion downloads

250,000+ iTunes U lessons


Can you as a teacher compete with that many sources of content? Can you do a better job of differentiating? There is no other platform that can. In fact there are more free resources available via iTunes U then even apps available in this regard.


Here’s some one who was raised in the linear, skill based age - its never too late to learn though. She is now able to read again because she can adjust size of fonts -‘in her 100th year, Virginia bought her first computer - an iPad’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndkIP7ec3O8 . And she is creating her own content (limericks).


Here’s some one who is NOT being raised in the linear, skill based age - what will her expectations of school be?


My iLearn story from Tullawong State School- Big Qn (following Challenge Based Learning model): what area of my learning do I need to focus on?


Essential Qn: what does my school data show?Our toolkit: guiding resources and activities- memory aids - photos taken of instructions, screenshots by them, & videos recorded by me


its a mobile device, so we’d go outside - very good for boys, kinaesthetic learners

i L e a r nChallenge Choose

Focus Area?

Literacy/ Numeracy - Examine data Find an

App that will help

Am I improving?

YES/NOFind a new App/

podcast

Am I improving?

YES/NO

Goal: Create self-directed students who can reflect and become addicted to learning


The Challenge: students choose focus area after examining their school data.- this is very different from the usual, teacher planned programs.NB. It was just as important that students began making independent learning decisions as it was that they actually improved their focus area.

T-charts


The decision making app: they had to prove the app would be useful for their focus area before Mr Nalder would download it. Each pro or con added can have a rating of 1-10 applied - even further practice for students in learning to make their own learning decisions


Example of app chosen by students- Sentence Spin. We also had great success with MVFractions

syncing apps?


Once it seemed ok to sync one app to multiple devices, but app store is maturing and now have to instead start thinking about just doing one copy of each app for each device.- what the eventual best model of managing school deployments is still developing- Look for info on the current Victorian iPad trial.

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moving at the speed of learning: a case for the ipod touch in schools

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complex skills

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blooms taxonomy