Electronic Notebooks for out of classroom

activities

Brian WhalleyUniversity of Sheffield

b.whalley@sheffield.ac.uk@brianwhalley brianbox.net

www.enhancingfieldwork.org.uk/

Derek France, Chester Julian Park, ReadingAlice Mauchline, ReadingKatharine Welsh, Chester

Computers in Fieldwork –Lyngen Alps, North Norway, 1984

Apple II

+ HDD + Screen + generator

Personalised learning?in personal learning spaces?

How do we personalise? and in what learning spaces?

Trip space

Team Space

Personal space

Knowledge space

OtherPersonal space

Educational Spaces

… lab, home, library ….

Student +Computer(desktop,laptop,

‘netbook’)

Student information environment

Rich Internet Applications

PLE Field space

In the field

Some people and their concepts

Neal Stephenson –The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (Diamond Age)

Douglas N Adams –The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy- ‘The Book’

Alan Kay –The Dynabook"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Bill MoggridgeGrid Computer

My new "slate"*•Cheap

•Light,

•convenient

•but .......

•not easy to back up, exchange information etc... (even with my ‘upgrades’)

•To some extent this also applies to conventional field notebooks:

(*From York City Museum, about £3.50)

The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

The Book?

Not just yet

A developing technology: a disruptive technology .....

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Disruptive* Devices?Disruptive Technology?Disruptive Innovation?

*Clayton Christensen

Bringing student studies into the digital age

'You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'

(Douglas N Adams 'The Salmon of Doubt', p274)

Digital and Information Literacies

‘Everyone should be able to participate and control their own learning process’

(Knowles 1987)

Learning activity

Specific interaction of learners with otherpeople, using specific tools and resources,oriented towards specific outcomes

LearningOutcomesNew Knowledge, skillsand abilities. Evidence of This and/or artefacts of the learning process

LearningEnvironmentTools, resources, artefacts affordances of the physical and virtual environment for learning

OthersOther people involved and the specific role they play in the interactions, e.g. support,

mediate, change, guide

Identities: preferences, needs motivations. Competencies: skills knowledge, abilities

Roles; Approaches and modes of participating

Learners

An outline for a learning activity, HelenBeetham 2007

Integrating technologies

Out of classroom activities (fieldwork, library, PRO etc) allow experiential learning, DIL via Tablets (+ apps)

iPad use and usage….

And it does not have to be internet connected

Book examples (pop)

Current examples of recent two texts

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Field maps and use in the rain

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and some other things that can be added or used

BadElfGPS dongle

AirstashexternalWiFi memory

Skitch in FieldworkGet students to observe, record, think, discuss

Imported into a notebook app

Imported into Skitchand then annotated

Add extra information etc

You can let students do the work and then add more information for them

You don’t have to prepare p-o-p versions:go digital with Goodreader or Expert PDF

and more ....

Field-mapping aids and apps

Precision Earth

Notebooks:

Notability £1.49

AudioNote £2.99

Skitch free

Field measurement etc

External laser device £70.00

seeLevel App £0.69

Theodolite App £2.49

Adding the ‘digital’ to ‘fieldwork’

What can we do with tablets?

• What can we do? • What can’t we do?

What would you like to do?