Lab
Read this article on Samsung and a Memphis school while you wait for people to arrive (or whenever this is posted.)
PLNs - Live Binder, RSS, Netvibes, Twitter, Diigo, Evernote, google drive - doc sharing
Find three apps you haven’t seen before that might be interesting. Choose one of these:
iTunes apps or browse in iTunes
Google Play
Class
Oct 31 class ?????
Tom Peters on creative education
TED Talk - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
Groups of three - what were the most important things you learned from the RWL? Tweet them to our class hashtag - #mlcourse
The Brain - “Will fast facts do to our brains, what fast food has done to our bodies?” R. Redekopp
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Then choose one more from among the following and bring your notes to class:
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Multitasking or Paying Attention: Winnifred Gallagher - the book Rapt, or video (around the 30 minute mark to find the multitasking stuff)audio
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Favourite Apps!! Books and ????
What is education? What do the experts think? The Agenda
What you think the purpose of education is should help determine how you use technology (and everything else you do in teaching)
Read / Watch / Listen for Oct. 3, 2012
Check your school/division policy re: mobile devices
Our Digital Future: Jobs of Tomorrow (TVO - The Agenda)
How do we figure out what works and what doesn’t?
BTR podcast - An Interview with Researcher and Teacher Victor Fitzgerald - Apr 08,2010 (12:00 - 16:00)
Marguerite Koole - ways to consider this “balance between the controls and constraints of social technologies and the needs of distance students.”
Q - 2010-12-21 Andrea Martin (but we’re listening to the first few minutes about Facebook and teachers). Ian Grunwald in Wpg // Anthony Marko in Hamilton
Lab
Open Source Software - free to download and use. Wide variety of programs - eg TTA lossless codec
Get VLC!!
For an overview of some terminology see the Educause collection of 7 Things You Should Know About ... - look through the list and update yourself on one or two!
Audio - Garageband (Mac only) or Audacity (free PC or Mac) --- export formats
Video - Movie Maker (PC) or iMovie (Mac) ---- export formats
Class
From the RWL - in groups of threeish, each share the most important thoughts that came out of your RWL. What strikes you as really critical in our move to more mobile tech? What will drive society, and in turn, education? Is it the social isolation of Putnam, the impeding of democracy by tech (Barney) Is it the changing way we read and interact with other media?
Favourite Apps!! Speech to text and verbal search.
Overview (the overture!) of ML Course
What is education? What do the experts think? The Agenda
What you think the purpose of education is should help determine how you use technology (and everything else you do in teaching)
Read / Watch / Listen for Sept 26, 2012
Best Practices Discussion Group from LinkedIn
iPadQuest - a blog by an iPad using teacher
The Brain - “Will fast facts do to our brains, what fast food has done to our bodies?” R. Redekopp
Then choose one more from among the following and bring your notes to class:
Multitasking or Paying Attention: Winnifred Gallagher - the book Rapt, or video (around the 30 minute mark to find the multitasking stuff)audio
Lab
Class web presence (this is an ongoing experiment in digital culture and ‘metateachnition’):
Desire2Learn - only to show your marks
Twitter: @rredekopp class hashtag is #mlcourse
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/rredekopp
Class Notes - http://rredekopp.blogspot.com
Class wiki (where you contribute - request access) - http://mobilelearningcourse.pbworks.com
Redekopp Online Newspaper - http://paper.li/rredekopp
Course Outline and assignments
Bibliography makers - bibme.org. refworks, easybib.
Open Source Software - free to download and use. Wide variety of programs - eg TTA lossless codec
ex. Music notation - scroll down a bit to MuseScore
TEXTBOOK??? Which device is best???
Class
Connecting to the wireless network - use your umnet ID
Introductions - R Redekopp
Pictures with name tags
Least/worst option???
You - name, work - job and location, reason for taking course, your mobile device (if you have one), gut feelings about Mobile Learning
Contact info - phone tree, text, twitter, or whatever for snow days/cancellations
Class structure - times and breaks
R/W/L ???
Class behaviour and etiqutte re: mobile devices
Meta-Teachnition - what to do when you disagree with everyone else or are distracted.
What is education? What do the experts think? The Agenda
Overview (the overture!) of ML Course
Best Practices Discussion Group from LinkedIn
iPadQuest - a blog by an iPad using teacher
For an overview of some terminology see the Educause collection of 7 Things You Should Know About ... - look through the list and update yourself on one or two!
Choose THREE from the list below. Since they are not all the same, be prepared to share your info based on what you read, watch OR listened to.
Read (options)
Social issues - some entry points
Bowling Alone - America's Declining Social Capital - Robert Putnam - also a book version.
One Nation Under Google (pdf) - Darin Barney
Anarchy and the internet - Gordon Graham
Digital Media and Youth.pdf
Youth, Identity and Digital Media.zip
Watch
Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is The Message and Media and The Global Village
One Nation Under Google - Darin Barney (Part 1)
TVO - The Agenda - The Myth of Digital Literacy
Digital Etiquette on YouTube
Privacy and Ordering Pizza! (just for fun!)
Listen
Start with BTR and Liz Kolb (Choose any or all) - BTR Cell Phones in Learning series
TVO - The Myth of Digital Literacy (click on the tab for the episode). You can download thiese from the iTunes store as well.
Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (they also have podcasts available)
or any of these
Interview with John Palfrey - Perseus Publishing
