27 March: Breakout session (3)

Going Mobile: Building for the New Mobility by Bill Rankin
(Attended: Kwai Yin)
Bill Rankin shared ACU's experience with the pervasive 1-to-1 environment based on the iPone and iPod Touch.

1. Blueprint for Deployment

Research
Observe
Integrate
Build
Evaluate
Modify

2. Characteristics of 1st generation mobility

situated access
expectations of coverage
prolonged usage
throttled interactions
portability

3. Characteristics of next generation mobility

always-on access
expectations for instantaneity
burst usage
high-bandwidth interactions
actual mobility

4. Core services in ACU (Abilene Christian University)

All students are provided with an iPhone and iPod Touch

5. Infrastructure Recommendations

think in terms of capacity
look at student foot traffic
students perfer WiFi
balance access and security
RF is an artform
be ready to adjust the design
be ready for weird cases
keep people informed

Speakers Include...

Marco Torres - As a teacher and media professional artist, Marco Torres is involved with many professional organizations where he is an advocate for more collaboration between the media arts world and education. For example, Marco was recruited to serve as a board member for the George Lucas Educational Foundation—a foundation created by filmmaker George Lucas to promote digital technology, change, community, and learning everywhere. Marco also is an Apple Distinguished Educator and was named California Educator of the Year.

Matt Federoff - CIO, Vail School District, AZ is presenting "Beyond Textbooks" - http://beyondtextbooks.org
At Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., students use computers provided by the school to get their lessons, do their homework and hear podcasts of their teachers’ science lectures. And throughout the district, a Beyond Textbooks initiative encourages teachers to create — and share — lessons that incorporate their own PowerPoint presentations, along with videos and research materials they find by sifting through reliable Internet sites.
"Beyond Textbooks" (see NY Times article "As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks are History)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/education/09textbook.html?_r=1 ).

Clay Shirky - Clay is a NYU professor, author and Web 2.0 expert who talks about how to manage a social community for learning. Clay's book Here Comes Everybody talks about how social communities are changing the way people interact. We have asked Clay to adapt that information to Learning and how students are using social trends in learning contexts. Clay will moderate a panel of students as reverse mentors to the educators and discuss how students learn today and then close out the saturday with a keynote on social communities impact on learning and getting the most of today's technologies for learning

Clay in action: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2708219489770693816&ei=syoqS6CFCIGEqAOKsvz1BA&q=clay+shirky&hl=en&client=safari%23docid=6526924696519785712

Itay Talgam - Itay is a world renowned conductor and currently the Music Director of the Tel-Aviv Symphony Orchestra and of Musica Nova Consort. Itay will run a three hour session on creating great learning. The session will focus on his Maestro program that teaches individuals how to get the most out of the community of learners. In the process of learning, the “Maestro” facilitator-conductor orchestrates the individual voices and ‘rehearses’ with the participants, maintaining constant dialog, maximum sharing of ideas and viewpoints, in a way that calls for and encourages active participation.

Itay in action: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/itay_talgam_lead_like_the_great_conductors.html

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