Moving at the Speed of Learning: A case for the iPod touch in schools

Moving at the speed
of Learning

Jonathan Nalder
Learning Support Teacher,
Project Officer (Transformational & Mobile Learning:
One Laptop per Child Australia)
jnald2@eq.edu.au www.slidetolearn.info

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

About me?
- Learning support teacher at Tullawong SS, a low socio-economic school. Currently working
to support teachers state-wide.

One Laptop per Child Australia


The other mobile learning appliance I work to support - remote schools - let me know if you
are heading to teach there or if you already do.
- The XO laptop is similar to the iPod touch in its companion device capacity - extends ICT to
personal and mobile spaces

Where are you at on the
iDevice adoption curve?


Where are you at on the iDevice adoption curve at present?

?


- NB. if more than a couple of devices, need to consider app syncing policy

future life ?


Do you ponder what the future life of our students will be?
- I’m going to present a case for all students, wether deaf or not, then look at speciﬁcally
how it relates

Assumption: Education = prep for future life

therefore, Teacher = prep for future life


I do ponder this - because of these assumptions and what they imply for my job as a teacher.

once jobs = factory, routine, repetitive, skilled based


once school = factory, routine, repetitive, skilled based


therefore, if the jobs students would grow up to do where linear and routine, so naturally was
schooling

once

Teacher - content - student - test


Linear progression of learning, start and stop point.

once
library

teacher

the world

learning

other students


Teacher main focus/ source of everything

knowledge
explodes


“In 2006, the world produced 161
‘exabytes’ of digital information—3
million times the amount of
information contained in all the
books ever written.”

Columbia Journalism Review
Source: The Week magazine, April 17, 2009, volume 9, issue 408, page 17 Columbia Journalism Review
The weekly column "Noted"
Slide courtesy of ADE Coordinator Maxx Judd.


new challenges emerge


Nothing ever stays the same - Rome about 600 years, middle ages 600 years, Renaissance
250 years, Industrial rev 250 years, and now, dealing with effects of industrial revolution as
digital revolution gets underway
- However, since the days of linear, factory education, knowledge has exploded & many new
challenges emerged (c High Noon)

High Noon:
20 Global Problems,
20 Years to Solve Them

Greenhouse gas emissions
Deforestation
Biodiversity loss
Fisheries Depletion
Water Shortages
Etc.


JS Rischard - 20 global problems, twenty years to solve them - summarises 20 biggest problems and what
they have in common - which is they are getting worse and standard strategies aren’t working - need a new approach to problem solving
- my parents haven’t solved them, my generation is running out of time + our way of thinking hasn’t worked - need new thinking
‘High Noon’ J F Rischard www.amazon.com/High-Global-Problems-Years-Solve/dp/0465070108

ubiquitous, ‘everyware’ computing is on the horizon

www.myswissarmyknife.com


Just think how many mobile computing devices you own already - they already outnumber
more ‘traditional’ computing. If computing then is everywhere, so must be learning

65%
Complex
Communications

Expert Thinking
59%

53%

46% Routine Cognitive

Routine Manual
40%
1960 1970 1980 1990 2002

The Demand for Skills has Changed
Levy and Murnane for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Slide courtesy of ADE Coordinator Maxx Judd.

By 2002, routine manual skills were needed in only 40% of jobs. Complex skills were already needed in 64% of jobs. Imagine what the trends on the graph
would show today?

jobs now = creative, complex, problem solving

school now = creative, complex, problem solving


New assumption: If jobs primarily need workers with complex skills, then schools must
provide them

meteotek08


Student project extraordinaire: ﬂy balloon to space and take photographs http://
teslabs.com/meteotek08
- this is what students today, with cheap digital tech and creative, complex, higher order
thinking can achieve

what does a complex classroom look like?


1950‘s: a higher order model emerges:

Bloom’s taxonomy

people have been thinking about a more complex classroom since the 1950’s

2001: an old model repurposed:

L. Anderson
Bloom’s revised taxonomy

Taxonomy was revised by student of Blooms’ 2001 - verbs instead of nouns.

Bloom’s digital taxonomy

creating

evaluating

analysing

applying

understanding

remembering


here it is mapped against mobile devices.

Bloom’s digital taxonomy

Revision by A. Churches


Now adapted by Andrew Churches to include references for a digital world - google him and
‘wiki’ for great resources

once

Teacher - content - student - test


remember where we said learning was?

now

task & content & assessment = new content


how about this: all in together, combined, because thats real life - and no longer linear
- plus it ends with new content being created, produced and published

Challenge Based Learning: ali.apple.com/cbl

Big Idea

Essential Question

The Challenge

Guiding Resources
Guiding Questions Guiding Activities
Web and iTunes U

Solution - Action

Assessment

Publishing - Student Samples Publishing - Student Reflection


Challenge Based Learning model is one option to use.
Big idea: voting, then ask what, when, where, why
Essential Qns: how effect me, why important to me? How do elections effect my community?
Challenge: choose one that has action involved: how improve voter turnout?
- See from slide 45 for how I applied this at my school

Assumption: Life = always learning

need agility


so, based on demands of the future, not past, we can make a new assumption.
And that means - agility, ﬂexibility to survive

teacher

other students

teacher

the world
flow...

learning


learning in a modern classroom should not sit still

learning
now other students flows...

the world (web)

needs...
teacher

in fact its now more like this
BUT how can 3 PCs at the back of the room, or 2 hours a week lab time, or even power
hungry, 2 mins just to start up laptops keep up?

learning
other Moments of learning need:
students flows...
> Gottfredson

1. Learning for the first time

the world (web)
2. Learning more
3. Remembering or applying
4. Things go wrong
5. Things change

teacher

summary of when learning occurs - the last 3 are not so well addressed by standard
teaching, but mobile devices in students own hands could really help - ‘just in time’ not ‘just
in case’ learning

need mobility


to keep up with the complex classroom & be truly agile and ﬂexible in learning, you need
mobility

2008:
more students at my school have a
mobile device (not incl. a phone)
than regularly use a PC.


2009:
shipments of smartphones outgrew
shipments of PC’s and Laptops


2010:
students aged 7-16 in the UK are
now more likely to own a mobile
than a book
> National Literacy Trust


learning
other students

the world (web)

teacher

only a converged, easy to use device can interface with and react at the speed of complex
learning - Just in time, not just in case

How do the iPhone, iPod touch & iPad
fit with complex learning?


need blank slate

ready to become whatever a student needs


Devices that are locked into one or other functionality won’t do it. Must be one that is as
agile and adaptable as learning itself is - a blank slate ready to become whatever the student
needs.

need blank slate

ready to become whatever a student needs


Devices that are locked into one or other functionality won’t do it. Must be one that is as
agile and adaptable as learning itself is - a blank slate ready to become whatever the student
needs. Whatever app you (or student) chooses to load, thats what it becomes.

“I don’t have to change
myself to fit the device,
it fits me”
Jony Ive, iPad designer.


The product is pretty much defined by a single piece of multi-touch glass, and thats it. There is no pointing
device, there isn’t even a single orientation, there is no up, no down, there is no right or wrong way of holding it. I
don’t have to change myself to fit the device, it fits me. - Jony Ive 2010

5 billion downloads
140,000+ apps

250,000+ iTunes U lessons


Can you as a teacher compete with that many sources of content? Can you do a better job of
differentiating?
There is no other platform that can. In fact there are more free resources available via iTunes
U then even apps available in this regard.


Here’s some one who was raised in the linear, skill based age - its never too late to learn
though. She is now able to read again because she can adjust size of fonts -‘in her 100th
year, Virginia bought her ﬁrst computer - an iPad’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndkIP7ec3O8 . And she is
creating her own content (limericks).


Here’s some one who is NOT being raised in the linear, skill based age - what will her
expectations of school be?


My iLearn story from Tullawong State School
- Big Qn (following Challenge Based Learning model): what area of my learning do I need to focus on?


Essential Qn: what does my school data show?
Our toolkit: guiding resources and activities
- memory aids - photos taken of instructions, screenshots by them, & videos recorded by me


its a mobile device, so we’d go outside - very good for boys, kinaesthetic learners

iL e a r n Goal: Create self-directed students who
can reﬂect and become addicted to learning

Challenge Focus
Area?
Choose Literacy/ Numeracy
- Examine data Find an
App that
will help

Am I
improving?
YES/NO
Am I
improving?
Find a new YES/NO
App/
podcast


The Challenge: students choose focus area after examining their school data.
- this is very different from the usual, teacher planned programs.
NB. It was just as important that students began making independent learning decisions as it
was that they actually improved their focus area.

T-charts


The decision making app: they had to prove the app would be useful for their focus area
before Mr Nalder would download it. Each pro or con added can have a rating of 1-10 applied
- even further practice for students in learning to make their own learning decisions


Example of app chosen by students- Sentence Spin. We also had great success with MVFractions

syncing apps?


Once it seemed ok to sync one app to multiple devices, but app store is maturing and now have to
instead start thinking about just doing one copy of each app for each device.
- what the eventual best model of managing school deployments is still developing
- Look for info on the current Victorian iPad trial.

Jonathan Nalder jnxyz@mac.com

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