Micro-Scholarship, What it is, How can it help me.pdf
Mobile devices and learning - talk and tasks
1. Mobile Devices and Learning
Sussex University
Designing a GPS course
Richard Vahrman, LocoMatrix
7th March 2013
2. Aim: Create a GPS learning module
• Week long course
• Maybe 12-13 year olds
3. Thinking Behind This
• Lots of modules appearing on the web
• Think Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/
• Think MOOC
• Think the module we will design
4. What this Opens Up
• Learning for life
• Individual learning
• An end to curricula
• But …
5. Raises a few questions
• What about the teachers
• More towards mentoring
• Learning towards apprenticeships
• Learning towards volunteering
• And what of the universities
6. So if we are learning modules
• How do we assess?
• Open Badges
• What’s needed to get the badge?
• C.f. Martial Arts
• Create learning pathways – if you liked this,
you might like…
• And in order to study this, you need A and B
first
7. A Scenario
• LocoMatrix asked to create game for Innocent
• No capacity but wants to recruit
• Look for a badge match – GPS, games, Flash
Builder
• And general rounded character
• At interview we can click on badges to get our
interview questions
8.
9. And a recap of previous
• Follows slideshow sent earlier
10. Object: to design a GPS course for
teenagers
• Week long course
• What is GPS?
• What is it used for?
• Where do you find it?
• What can you do with it?
• Creating games
• See Locomatrix Invisible Buildings esp. video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_
embedded&v=8U7L0YKi-bc
11. Maps
• Using maps with GPS
• Use for SatNav
• Available resources – Google, Open Streetmap
• APIs
• Tiling
12. GPS: where else?
• Apps like 4Square
• Twitter – e.g. #UKSnow
• Trip Advisor
• Where else?
13. Coordinates and Haversine
• Any point on earth described with 2 coords –
lat/long – what do these look like
• Calculations=Haversine
http://www.movable-
type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
• Calculate distance/bearing/midpoint from 2
lat/longs
• Destination given distance and bearing
• Intersection of paths
14. Where am I?
• Working out the dimensions of your playing
area
• Creating a simple metal detector program
• Creating a grid in a field
• Other ideas
• Use of other phone features
15. Assessing the Work
• How to do it?
• Awarding an Open Badge (Mozilla)
http://openbadges.org/en-US/
• How this might fit in with other modules