Tablets, smartphones, and mobile apps

TABLETS, SMARTPHONES, & MOBILE APPS

Richard Sebastian, Director of Teaching & Learning Technologiesrsebastian@vccs.edu

& the future of teaching & learning

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The growth of mobile technologies is unprecedented

There are over 7+ billion people in the world

5.3 billion of them are phone subscribers

In 2009, more than half a billion people accessed the Internet through a mobile device.

This number is expected to double within 5 years

More than 8 trillion text messages were sent in 2011 alone

In the past year, mobile searches have quadrupled

Source: Flurry, comScore, Alexa

Jeff Haynie, @jhaynie

Mobile in 2007

Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)

2008: Apple still rules

Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)

2009: Winds of change from Android

Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)

2010:The iPad hit.So did Android.

Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)

December 2010: Mobiles Out ShipDesktops

Desktop Mobile

2012: Mobile Chaos

Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)

April 2011

AppStore569,000+ apps

10,000,000,000+ billion downloads

iBooks2iBooks Author

iTunesU

It’s not just about

(sorry, Jack)

It’s not just about

iPad

Source: Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie)

It’s not about

VS

It’s about

(i.e. learning)

How do tablets, smartphones, and apps fundamentally change

teaching & learning?

Hint:

They don’t

But they do allow us to RETHINK teaching and learning

The growth of mobile technologies is unprecedented

Thank you!Liberally borrowed and

adapted from Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie) and yiibu