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Art in 3D Augmented Reality
Will a virtuality ability to pick an object up and spin it around allow us to marvel at the artefacts in a museum? Will such engagement still only appeal to the minority? Can it create an impact on more visitors, can it galvinise the curiosity of a teenager?
Van Gogh Audio Guide – download the podcast
In advance of a key visit download the audio tour to familiarise yourself with the exhibits. Organise your own tour with excerpts on those parts of the exhibition that interest you.
The act of preparation smacks of a formal visit. Better might be to use the trip to capture interest while there then have a mechanism of sending reminders or follow ups. Personalisation, where it is possible, has learning value as does a person constructing their own knowledge if only by creating a gallery of visit images. Constructed learning sticks.
Your museum visit is mine
This is what I have been after. Tools that enhance the visitor experience while allowing further aggregation of that person’s visit to create a personal and constructed version of events. This ties into learning theories related to ‘cognitive construction’ rather than a behaviorist or didactic, spoon-fed, top down approach to learning. From a plethora of platforms will Google inevitably take over, translating the macro level Google Maps into micro level google guides? Much more from Google too.
At what point will people jostling to hold up their device interfere with the collective experience? How do you cater for those without one of these? The audio-guide or leaflet. Might content be produced to suit primary, secondary and tertiary visitors?
Augmented mobile learning
Imagine a room in which students pick an item from a museum then do this with it on their screens. You have their attention. How do they then take it and create a string of memories that take them through assignments and beyond?
Imagine downloading ahead of a visit the audio tour for a special show? My visit to the Royal Academy to see the Van Gogh letters had my mother as the audio tour – I wish I’d recorded it. Where we now have ONE voice and script very soon there will be many – then you can choose who you want as your guide.
And then imagine an audiotour pinned to locations as you walk around a town, showing you before and after vistas, telling you stories or offering an alternative soundscape. Not if your in a hurry. And if on your daily commute you’ll turn yourself into an expert and need to upload your own research and insights. Here the ‘Blood, guts and babies’ medical tour from the Wellcome Foundation.
And at the risk of getting hit by the next best, take your eyes of the footpath and take a augmented view not just of a shop or cafe, but illustrated history … London Blitz would be scary, to see a motorbike currier heading towards a bomb crater.
Near Field Communication
Where have I been the last could of years to miss Near Field Communication ?
Certainly over the last six months I’ve been reflecting on the desire for some kind of situation-based, intuitive, just-in time information-tailored system for applied learning … and more recently for use in museums and galleries. I have kids. I go to museums and galleries. The last time I looked we were still being invited to buy audio-guides.
Maybe that explains it. Does a museum or gallery want to diminish the value of its own paid-for services, even to reduce the likelihood of the purchase of a guide or any other sundry books or postcards if you’re getting a suitably rich record of your visit for free?
NFC, QR codes and the ubiquitous Smart Phone must in time give way to wearable technology, the wrist band with a chip in it that I got at the ‘In Flanders Fields’ museum Ypres is the first step towards something bigger and brainer. The wrist band with a memory stick embedded in it from the University of Birmingham was a lost opportunity too – it should have been loaded with a ‘good bag’ some software, a piece to camera from the head of department and maybe an eBook to get us going.
In the past, and still, pen on paper, sometimes with coloured felt tips, is the main form of ‘user generated content’ for students – apt as they will be assessed by writing and colouring in. This needs to be replaced by UGC that uses the devices they have in their hands – their images, typed in text (or voiced) with annotations and mash-ups.
The limiting experience of the museum visit unleashed
A lifelong love in art galleries yet I still feel unmoved by galleries and museums, possibly because I expect the gentle, guiding voice of my late mother at my shoulder (artist, art historian, Mum).
What could be a more personalised visit than to have someone who knows you so well point things out, guide you to things that will interest or irritate, then offer an insight – invariably linked to ‘what do you do next?’ i.e. look, learn then apply.
Thoughts on ethical issues surrounding studying younger students in virtual worlds and online
Who?
Young people
Why?
Their use of mobile phones and networked devices
What?
Immersive Virtual Worlds and virtual inhabitants (not everyone’s cup of tea)
-
Informal learning settings
-
Ethical challenges across the full range of contexts
Suggestion
- Keep ethical questions open given the changing environment.
- A participatory and iterative approach (Lally et al. 2012 : 02 )
- Assumption that ‘developments in mobile and networked technologies change young people’s culture landscape, allowing them to communicate, socialise and collaborate on their personal projects in new ways’. (Lally et al. 2012 : 02 )
- Indeed, outside the formal education system (Sharples, Graber, Harrison, & Logan, 2009)
Context
- Outside the classroom
- How to research
- New ‘ecologies’ of learning (Looi, 2001)
- Hanging around the changing rooms after a swimming session – banter that leaks out into the general public.
PROBLEM
- Integration of these platforms/worlds into learning design.
- Merging formal and informal.
- Bridging formal and nonformal/informal contexts (TEL-TLRP) projects – ‘Inter-Life’ and ‘Personal Inquiry’ (Lally et al. 2012 : 04)
‘The projects have to negotiate territory that by its very informal and collaborative nature requires ethical and educational processes to be negotiated and distributed amongst participants, rather than pre-determined by their institutional context’. (Lally et al. 2012 : 04)
Like bringing a game of British Bulldogs or ‘Kick the can’ into a teaching setting, like boy scouts … and killing it off in the process. Kids would run a mile if they spotted a teacher. Even at university, extracurricular that had nothing to do with the course … and faculty associations which did.
Ethics – and Aristotle and ‘phronesis’. (Unnecessarily pretentious or a valid grounding in ethics.
If we go back to Aristotle then why miss out all the philosophical thinking and development since, at least via humanists such as Hegel)
- Quest for external and universal truths
- Skills required to pursue a particular end
Elliot, (2006)‘disciplined conversation in which reasons for action are scrutinised, critiqued and modified’.
Phronesis – underpins the argument for iterative and participatory research. (Lally et al. 2012 : 02 ) = practical wisdom (wikipedia).
Learning in informal and non-formal settings already constitutes the majority of educational interactions during a person’s lifetime (Livingstone, 1999)
Actually it starts in the womb as the brain forms in the foetus from around five months and never ends … a person continues to learn to the moment they die … possibly even moments after the heart has stopped and the brain finally shuts down and everything is lost.
I wouldn’t count on anything that is said by Marc Prensky (2005)
A more reliable source might be the OII Annual Survey for GB usage, Rebecca Eynon.
Emergent social network technologies (Selwyn, 2008)
Prohibition at school.
Skills learnt: online collaborative learning, development of skills in web-based social networking, occur almost entirely outside the formal education system. (Lally et al. 2012 : 04 )
- The perpetual consumer (Lawson, 2004) and the net savvy adolescent.
- Direct link between economic activities and consumption. (Lally et al. 2012 : 04 )
AdBlocker, scrambling facebook, if you get ads in blogs pay to exclude, tape over screen, block pop-ups, move platform (e.g . AOL).
Edutainment rarely competes with the games that have 100m invested.
Novel ethical issues (Lally et al. 2012 : 04)
The study of people’s personal use of digital technology for learning (Buckingham &Willett, 2009; Crook & Harrison, 2008; Sharples et al., 2009), and their engagement with digital technologies across formal and non-formal/informal settings for education (Vavoula, Sharples, Rudman, Lonsdale, & Meek, 2007), presents novel ethical issues.
REFERENCE
Davies, C., & Eynon, R (2013) Teenagers and Technology (Adolescence and Society)
Eynon, R (2009) Mapping the digital divide in Britain: implications for learning and education.
Kelly, D (Forthcoming 2011) ‘Karaoke’s Coming Home: Japan’s Empty Orchestras in the United Kingdom’, Leisure Studies 30.
Lally, V; Sharples, M; Tracey, F; Bertram, N and Masters, S. (2012). Researching the ethical dimensions of mobile, ubiquitous,and immersive technology enhanced learning (MUITEL) in informal settings: a thematic review and dialogue. Interactive Learning Environments, 20(3), pp. 217–238.
Livingstone, D.W. (1999). Exploring the icebergs of adult learning: Findings of the first Canadian survey of informal learning practices. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 13(2), 49–72.
Looi, C.K. (2001). Enhancing learning ecology on the internet. Journal of Computer Assisted
Learning, 17(1), 13–20.
Prensky, M. (2005). Don’t bother me mum – I’m learning. St Paul, MN: Paragon House.
Selwyn, N. (Ed.). (2008). Education 2.0?: Designing the web for teaching and learning. London: Institute of Education, University of London, TLRP-TEL.
Sharples, M., Graber, R., Harrison, C., & Logan, K. (2009). E-Safety and Web2.0 for children aged 11–16. Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning, 25, 70–84.
Thoughts on ethical issues surrounding studying younger students in virtual worlds and online
Who?
Young people
Why?
Their use of mobile phones and networked devices
What?
Immersive Virtual Worlds and virtual inhabitants (not everyone’s cup of tea)
-
Informal learning settings
-
Ethical challenges across the full range of contexts
Suggestion
- Keep ethical questions open given the changing environment.
- A participatory and iterative approach (Lally et al. 2012 : 02 )
- Assumption that ‘developments in mobile and networked technologies change young people’s culture landscape, allowing them to communicate, socialise and collaborate on their personal projects in new ways’. (Lally et al. 2012 : 02 )
- Indeed, outside the formal education system (Sharples, Graber, Harrison, & Logan, 2009)
Context
- Outside the classroom
- How to research
- New ‘ecologies’ of learning (Looi, 2001)
- Hanging around the changing rooms after a swimming session – banter that leaks out into the general public.
PROBLEM
- Integration of these platforms/worlds into learning design.
- Merging formal and informal.
- Bridging formal and nonformal/informal contexts (TEL-TLRP) projects – ‘Inter-Life’ and ‘Personal Inquiry’ (Lally et al. 2012 : 04)
‘The projects have to negotiate territory that by its very informal and collaborative nature requires ethical and educational processes to be negotiated and distributed amongst participants, rather than pre-determined by their institutional context’. (Lally et al. 2012 : 04)
Like bringing a game of British Bulldogs or ‘Kick the can’ into a teaching setting, like boy scouts … and killing it off in the process. Kids would run a mile if they spotted a teacher. Even at university, extracurricular that had nothing to do with the course … and faculty associations which did.
Ethics – and Aristotle and ‘phronesis’. (Unnecessarily pretentious or a valid grounding in ethics.
If we go back to Aristotle then why miss out all the philosophical thinking and development since, at least via humanists such as Hegel)
- Quest for external and universal truths
- Skills required to pursue a particular end
Elliot, (2006) ‘disciplined conversation in which reasons for action are scrutinised, critiqued and modified’.
Phronesis – underpins the argument for iterative and participatory research. (Lally et al. 2012 : 02 ) = practical wisdom (wikipedia).
Learning in informal and non-formal settings already constitutes the majority of educational interactions during a person’s lifetime (Livingstone, 1999)
Actually it starts in the womb as the brain forms in the foetus from around five months and never ends … a person continues to learn to the moment they die … possibly even moments after the heart has stopped and the brain finally shuts down and everything is lost.
I wouldn’t count on anything that is said by Marc Prensky (2005)
A more reliable source might be the OII Annual Survey for GB usage, Rebecca Eynon.
Emergent social network technologies (Selwyn, 2008)
Prohibition at school.
Skills learnt: online collaborative learning, development of skills in web-based social networking, occur almost entirely outside the formal education system. (Lally et al. 2012 : 04 )
- The perpetual consumer (Lawson, 2004) and the net savvy adolescent.
- Direct link between economic activities and consumption. (Lally et al. 2012 : 04 )
AdBlocker, scrambling facebook, if you get ads in blogs pay to exclude, tape over screen, block pop-ups, move platform (e.g . AOL).
Edutainment rarely competes with the games that have 100m invested.
Novel ethical issues (Lally et al. 2012 : 04)
The study of people’s personal use of digital technology for learning (Buckingham &Willett, 2009; Crook & Harrison, 2008; Sharples et al., 2009), and their engagement with digital technologies across formal and non-formal/informal settings for education (Vavoula, Sharples, Rudman, Lonsdale, & Meek, 2007), presents novel ethical issues.
REFERENCE
Davies, C., & Eynon, R (2013) Teenagers and Technology (Adolescence and Society)
Eynon, R (2009) Mapping the digital divide in Britain: implications for learning and education.
Kelly, D (Forthcoming 2011) ‘Karaoke’s Coming Home: Japan’s Empty Orchestras in the United Kingdom’, Leisure Studies 30.
Lally, V; Sharples, M; Tracey, F; Bertram, N and Masters, S. (2012). Researching the ethical dimensions of mobile, ubiquitous,and immersive technology enhanced learning (MUITEL) in informal settings: a thematic review and dialogue. Interactive Learning Environments, 20(3), pp. 217–238.
Livingstone, D.W. (1999). Exploring the icebergs of adult learning: Findings of the first Canadian survey of informal learning practices. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 13(2), 49–72.
Looi, C.K. (2001). Enhancing learning ecology on the internet. Journal of Computer Assisted
Learning, 17(1), 13–20.
Prensky, M. (2005). Don’t bother me mum – I’m learning. St Paul, MN: Paragon House.
Selwyn, N. (Ed.). (2008). Education 2.0?: Designing the web for teaching and learning. London: Institute of Education, University of London, TLRP-TEL.
Sharples, M., Graber, R., Harrison, C., & Logan, K. (2009). E-Safety and Web2.0 for children aged 11–16. Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning, 25, 70–84.
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My interactive, web-based, online, offline, inline, e-learning journey to date
I entered this field in 1999/2000 and have migrated rich content from DVD to the web, and for the last three years have been studying with the OU on their MAODE while keeping up some professional activity – working in Brighton companies have a short shelf life as ideas, people, projects, software and platforms get picked up or crushed, spun around then spat out.
There’s constant agitation – on the one hand careful evolution, on the other, a desire by some to be the first with a revolution.
It all goes into the mix.
My view is that we need to feed content to tablets and smartphones and look beyond these to a headset and ear-piece.
Personally I’d like to have chips in my teeth so that I can activate a device without having to use fingers or voice 🙂
M-learning stands for mouth learning?!
25 benefits of mobile learning
Fig.1. Mindmap on mobile learning
Is learning support by text messaging mobile learning?
Must it be a smart-phone. I would have called taking an Apple Classic into the garden on an extension cable and using it in a cardboard box to shield it from the sun as mobility of some kind – indeed development of the use of laptops in the last 15 years has been mobile and in 1997 I shot a training video for the RAC on a roadside device called ‘hardbody’ that was a navigational tool to locate the breakdown, a database of parts, a diagnostic for fault finding and fixing and a way for customers to pay.
The prospects for and possibilities of mobile computing have been known for a long time.
Getting them into the hands of students has taken longer as prices have fallen and broadband made readily available.
Was a cassette on a Sony Walkman mobile learning, or more recently is something from iTunes U on an MP3 player mobile e-learning? Yes, surely if its function is educational or it is resource tailored for a specific module.
Fig. 2. From Agnes Kuklska-Hulme’s inaugural lecture on mobile learning at the Open University.
- Convenience and flexibility – the university in your pocket. Ditch the folders, files and print outs.
- Relevance – situated
- Learner control – mine (personalised Apps, choice of phone and case …)
- Good use of ‘dead time’ – on the bus, train, passenger in car … in bed, in front of TV, on the loo or in the bath.
- Fits many different learning styles – short burst or lengthier intense periods
- Improves social learning (i.e. Communicating with peers and experts)
- Encourages reflection – easy to take notes (audio as dictaphone or text)
- Easy evidence collection – photos and audio (screen grabs from online research), tag finds.
- Supported decision making
- Speedier remediation – instant
- Improved learner confidence
- Easily digestible learning – where ‘chunked’ though this should be a choice where content has been suitably prepared for web usability.
- Heightened engagement – feeds alerts that can be responded to in a timely fashion. Makes synchronous and quasi-synchronous forum feedback possible.
- Better planning for face-to-face – organiser, contactable 24/7 (almost)
- Great for induction – keeping in touch, easy to ask questions, familiar, universal and everyday.
- Elimination of technological barriers – basic, intuitive, commonplace.
- Designed once then delivered across multiple platforms – responsive design (using HTML 5)
- Easily trackable via wifi – and GPS
- Cost-effective build
- A means to recoup money
- Technology advances with Apps
- Technology advances with interface, voice command and other tools.
- Everything in one place, including TV, radio, podcasts, photo gallery …
- Assistive technology – add a micro-projector, wifi-keyboard, sync to other devices such as tablet, laptop and desktop, augmented learning …
- Replacement technology – starting to replace money, already replacing cameras, MP3 players, address book, organiser, games console, remote control, torch, dictaphone … pen and paper, art pad …
(In part from Dr Chris Davies, Head of the e-learning research group, Oxford, Prof. John Traxler, Prof. Of Mobile Learning (2011 )
Click to access Mobile_learning_NHS_Research_Report.pdf
(last accessed 10 Dec 2012)
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