Text Messaging in education why use it ? Why not turn it on its head why not use it

1. Text Messaging in education why use it ? Why not turn it on its head why not use it.

2. 3. txt messaging will never catch on !?!! @andyjb 4. txt messaging will never catch on !?!! 6.1 Trillion txts messages proves youre wrong. 6100000000 http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/material/FactsFigures2010.pdf 5. This Mobile stuff its dangerous

http://thegazette.com/2010/03/11/thursdays-political-cartoon-17 6. Devices its personal loosing it is disastrous 7. Mobile Learning or Learner Mobility 1 :1 computing doesn't mean Solo learning Adults & children learn better in groups whereas OLPC project premised on solo learning Content is important but collaboration is King Location and context are trends to watch 8. State of Flux is the New Normal. Get over it ! IMG_2409.JPG 9. before you vision technology in 2025 just think ? USB is just 11 years oldYouTube 6 years old Facebook is just 7 ! Google is 12 years old 10.

When most everyone shouts, few listen. How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

http://www.newsweek.com/1995/02/26/the-internet-bah.html 12. Examples of getting it wrong

Every town will need a telephone

The world will only need 5 or 6 computers

SMS will never catch on

The internet is a new idea of a network

(Learn from the telegraph in the US in the 1890 )

13. C:UsersandyAppDataLocalTempz1o460f1.bmp 14. C:UsersandyAppDataLocalTempz1o460f1.bmp A technology when inventedthought to have no practical and especially no commercial use 15. 16. 160 characters isn't enough ? 17. 18.

Estamos bien en el refugio los 33 (33chtrs)

Give the miners Oakley shades (29chtrs)

Please turn room lights down (28 Chtrs)

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated Mark Twain (60 Chtrs)

160 characters isnt enough 19. Mobiles Underground http://www.dailytech.com/Chilean+Miners+Entertained+By+Samsung+Galaxy+Beam/article19970.htm http://youtu.be/M9Z8E3SYvZM 20. What do you use your phone for ?

What's the oddest thing you use yours for ?

Timer for cooking

Camera to take picture of point of interest or where you've parked the car

Text yourself reminders

21. My Personal Plea!

SMS if you want to impart meaningful information to certain groups SMS is thee medium.

Look at how SMS for first time in history has given Deaf teens a technology to use that exactly the same as theirpeers

22. C:Curious ClientsWEB AND MULTIMEDIA2229 ABDN pptunilogo.gif www.abdn.ac.uk February 22 2010 Real time simulations using SMS Sarah Cornelius 23. MPj04389500000[1] A real-time flooddisaster simulation activity forundergraduategeography students 24. University of Aberdeens work

http://www.slideshare.net/jiscrscyh/real-time-simulations-using-sms-university-of-aberdeen

25. Augmented Reality SANY0030.JPG 26. http://mobimooc.wikispaces.com 27. Don't believe me! http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2011/ 28. Helpful tips

Digital residents and digital visitors

http://is.gd/kMnxGt David White Oxford University

Learners are individuals and don't make assumptions (even better ask them ! )

Learners aren't always your biggest challenge or you biggest threat

Collaboration and shared approaches with local variation are good thing

29. PICO projection Think the smallest mobile phone able to project a image Dont believe me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKCWBC88shM video shot in london cafe two years ago 30. NFC in education Near Field CommunicationTransferring homework or other data from/to learners device Registration Paying for lunch/printing Jetstream is coming like NFC currently operates only over 10centimtres but transmits 530megabytes of data a second 31. Futures Uncertain but what the heck ! Twitter @ andyjb Blog http//andysblackhole.blogspot.com Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/andyjb

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Text Messaging in education why use it ? Why not turn it on its head why not use it