Cool Tools and Technologies - Exploiting the WOW Factor
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Michael Coghlan presented on cool tools and technologies that can be used to enhance teaching, focusing on exploiting the "wow factor" to engage students. Some technologies discussed included blogs, wikis, YouTube, and smartphones from 10 years ago, as well as more recent tools like augmented reality, gesture-based computing, and visual data analysis. Coghlan emphasized unleashing technology on students and letting them discover things for its own sake. Overall, the presentation highlighted several emerging technologies and their potential to make learning exciting and fun when integrated into teaching practices.
Cool Tools and Technologies - Exploiting the WOW Factor
- 1. COOL TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES Exploiting the WOW Factor Michael Coghlan Student Services Conference Creative Commons (CC) licensed music 17/11/11 by Lohstana David found at JAMENDO
- 2. 10 YEARS AGO (2001) • BLOGS • VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS • WIKIS • FACEBOOK • PODCASTS • IPADS • RSS FEEDS • IPHONES • YOUTUBE • EBOOKS • TWITTER
- 3. EXPLOITING THE WOW FACTOR TO ENHANCE TEACHING PRACTICE The WOW factor is very much underrated when attempting to engage people in educational technology. I was always hearing ' you can't let the technology' lead, and yet all my most exciting moments, and those I observed in others, were when that it is exactly what we did - we followed the technology FOR ITS OWN SAKE and discovered wonderful things!
- 5. unleash the technology on students – let them decide what could be done with it – let them play (FUN)
- 7. THEORIES ABOUT TECHNOLOGY 1. Technological determinism: technology is an external agent that acts upon people and changes society. 2. Social construction of technology (SCOT): it is human decisions and processes that create the technologies we have, and that the prevailing social milieu has an influential role in the decisions we make about how we use that technology. 3. A middle ground between people and machine is the theory of Social Shaping. Nancy Baym refers to technologies having ‘logics’ that influence how we use them. Nicholas Carr calls them ‘ethics’: “the message that a tool or medium transmits into the minds and culture of its users”
- 8. “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” (McLuhan)
- 9. “ALL GOOD TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC.” (Arthur C Clarke) Creative Commons Image from dibytes
- 10. MAGIC TOOLS • Centra • RSS • Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ • Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr, Facebook) • QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/ • Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/ • Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/
- 11. RSS Feeds Feed from TAFESA PodZone Flickr Badge
- 12. MAGIC TOOLS • Centra • RSS • Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ • Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr, Facebook) • QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/ • Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/ • Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/
- 13. WORDLE Visual Data Analysis http://www.wordle.net/
- 16. MAGIC TOOLS • Centra • RSS • Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ • Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr, Facebook) • QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/ • Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/ • Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/
- 17. QR Codes
- 18. QR Codes Make your own QR Codes at QRStuff.com See also RFID tags: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification
- 19. MAGIC TOOLS • Centra • RSS • Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ • Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr, Facebook) • QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/ • Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/ • Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/
- 20. OTHER COOL TOOLS • Flickr • POV (Point of View) Technology • Eyejot (video mail) http://www.eyejot.com/ • Slideshare (sharing ppt slides) http://www.slideshare.net • Screenr (creating screencasts) http://www.screenr.com/ • Wolfram Alpha (numerical search engine) http://www.wolframalpha.com/
- 22. Annotating Images using the Notes Tool See http://www.flickr.com/photos/ha112/234233755/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/4090354867/
- 23. Choose Your Own Adventure See http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviddmuir/1924752950/
- 25. POV GLASSES IN ACTION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGbfYkuu8E An apprentice using POV technology in remote Australia fitting service gauges.
- 27. OTHER COOL TOOLS • Flickr • POV (Point of View) Technology • Eyejot (video mail) http://www.eyejot.com/ • Slideshare (sharing ppt slides) http://www.slideshare.net • Screenr (creating screencasts) http://www.screenr.com/ • Wolfram Alpha (numerical search engine) http://www.wolframalpha.com/
- 28. WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON? a summary of recent Horizon Reports 2010/2011
- 30. TIME TO ADOPTION – 1 yr or less Mobile Devices Examples include: • Google Sky Map for Android platforms, which serves as a mobile planetarium • History: Maps of the World, containing full-colour, historical maps • iSeismometer - capable of measuring vibrations and tremors • Reference works such as the Australian Oxford Dictionary and the Aussie Slang Dictionary, featuring more than 700 common Australian phrases.
- 31. TIME TO ADOPTION – 1 yr or less Mobile Internet Devices The knfbReader Mobile is designed to help those with learning disabilities or visual impairment. The user snaps a picture of text using his or her mobile phone and the phone converts the text to speech.
- 32. TIME TO ADOPTION – 1 yr or less eBooks • Flipboard – a magazine featuring you and your social network
- 33. WIKIPEDIA + COOLIRIS = DISCOVER http://www.cooliris.com/ipad/discover/
- 34. TIME TO ADOPTION – 2 to 3 years Augmented Reality (AR)
- 35. TIME TO ADOPTION – 2 to 3 years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0
- 36. The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed. (William Gibson)
- 37. TIME TO ADOPTION – 2 to 3 years http://www.vimeo.com/2341387
- 38. TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 years Gesture Based Computing Relevance for Teaching and Learning The kinaesthetic nature of gesture-based computing will very likely lead to new kinds of teaching or training simulations that look, feel, and operate almost exactly like their real-world counterparts. The ease and intuitiveness of a gestural interface makes the experience seem very natural, and even fun, making them relevant for learning at any age or level of study..
- 39. Gesture Based Computing http://www.youtube.com/user/oblongtamper
- 41. TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 years Visual Data Analysis
- 42. TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 years Visual Data Analysis Examples: http://www.google.com/publicdata/home
- 43. TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 years Visual Data Analysis http://www.ushahidi.com/
- 44. TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 years Visual Data Analysis http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/
- 45. THE APP WORLD These are MAGIC: • SoundHound • My Tracks • Google Goggles • Flightradar 24 • Etc etc
- 48. THE COOLEST TOOL OF ALL IS YOU!!! JanneM @ flickr.com
- 49. Organisations will need to adapt to the fact that web 2.0 citizens will enter places of work and learning highly connected to a network of peers that they rely on for entertainment, mutual learning, and collaboration. They may expect to be able to make use of these personal learning and social networks, and the technologies that make these networks possible, in their places of work or study. These web 2.0 citizens operate in a world that is open and mobile, and they are unlikely to accept authority that is automatically assigned to a position. Their world is flat and devoid of hierarchy. In a world where information about their areas of interest or expertise is increasing exponentially they will place greater store on connected networks, which may extend beyond classroom or workplace boundaries, and knowing where to get the knowledge and information they need, is more important than having that knowledge and information themselves. http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/
- 50. THANK YOU Michael Coghlan michaelc@chariot.net.au Australian – New Zealand 2010 Horizon Report HERE Creative Commons (CC) licensed music by Lohstana David found at JAMENDO
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