Asset-taggedMiles Metcalfe @mmetcalfe — FOTE 2010
Technology has progressed to the point where a person who wishes to partake in the social, cultural,
and political affairs of our society has no realistic choice but to expose to others, if not to the public as a whole, a broad range of conduct and communications
that would previously have been deemed unquestionably private.
US magistrate judge, James Orenstein, 2010
At FOTE 2010 we are all optimists
Mobile, social and in the cloud
Mobile, social and in the cloud
• You don’t need to buy technology to build learning infrastructure
Mobile, social and in the cloud
• You don’t need to buy technology to build learning infrastructure
• Your students will connect to learning anytime and anywhere with their mobiles
Mobile, social and in the cloud
• You don’t need to buy technology to build learning infrastructure
• Your students will connect to learning anytime and anywhere with their mobiles
• Your teachers will use social software to engage learners in novel learning spaces
Welcome to “teh shiny”
Welcome to “teh shiny” *
* Your milage may vary. Jet-packs are optional
Welcome to “teh shiny”
• With your internet-connected computer in your pocket
*
* Your milage may vary. Jet-packs are optional
Welcome to “teh shiny”
• With your internet-connected computer in your pocket
• And an iPad to rewrite the textbook of learning
*
* Your milage may vary. Jet-packs are optional
Welcome to “teh shiny”
• With your internet-connected computer in your pocket
• And an iPad to rewrite the textbook of learning
• In the virtu-real(TM) learning space without boundaries
*
* Your milage may vary. Jet-packs are optional
but
If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer;
you’re the product being sold.
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Why is the world’s biggest ad trafficker in the mobile phone business?
Do no evil
Do no evil
• Street view and wireless sniffing
Do no evil
• Street view and wireless sniffing
• An innocent mistake
Do no evil
• Street view and wireless sniffing
• An innocent mistake
• We all patent innocent mistakes
Do no evil
• Street view and wireless sniffing
• An innocent mistake
• We all patent innocent mistakes
• Google Buzz
Do no evil
• Street view and wireless sniffing
• An innocent mistake
• We all patent innocent mistakes
• Google Buzz
• Enforced open social graph
Do no evil
• Street view and wireless sniffing
• An innocent mistake
• We all patent innocent mistakes
• Google Buzz
• Enforced open social graph
• If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear
Do no evil
• Street view and wireless sniffing
• An innocent mistake
• We all patent innocent mistakes
• Google Buzz
• Enforced open social graph
• If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear
*
* Except when there’s money in it for us
You are the target
You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are
You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are
• So does your telco.
You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are
• So does your telco.
• The phone’s software vendor (and a lot of other people) do too
You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are
• So does your telco.
• The phone’s software vendor (and a lot of other people) do too
• You, your habits, where you are right now is the product on sale
You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are
• So does your telco.
• The phone’s software vendor (and a lot of other people) do too
• You, your habits, where you are right now is the product on sale
• Adwords sold your attention
You are the target• Your mobile phone knows where you are
• So does your telco.
• The phone’s software vendor (and a lot of other people) do too
• You, your habits, where you are right now is the product on sale
• Adwords sold your attention
• The mobile internet is selling your location
Because we can
Social software in education
Social software in education
• Because of “the kidz” or from teachers’ enthusiasms?
Social software in education
• Because of “the kidz” or from teachers’ enthusiasms?
• How many teenagers spontaneously blog?
Social software in education
• Because of “the kidz” or from teachers’ enthusiasms?
• How many teenagers spontaneously blog?
• What’s the demographic of Twitter?
Social software in education
• Because of “the kidz” or from teachers’ enthusiasms?
• How many teenagers spontaneously blog?
• What’s the demographic of Twitter?
• What age-range is most likely to post compromising pictures on Facebook?
Terms and conditions
Terms and conditions
• Who reads clickwrap?
Terms and conditions
• Who reads clickwrap?
• What is our critical response to services that turn consumers into product?
Terms and conditions
• Who reads clickwrap?
• What is our critical response to services that turn consumers into product?
• What do we think about regulation after the financial crisis?
Critical thinking
Critical thinking
• Public sector walled gardens
Critical thinking
• Public sector walled gardens
• Uncritical neophilia of the digerati
Critical thinking
• Public sector walled gardens
• Uncritical neophilia of the digerati
• Nay-sayers and enthusiasts in education
Try this at home
Find a fresher
Find a fresher
• Familiarisation for freshers
• Campus locations
• Local areas of interest
• Crowd-source your content!
Field trips
Field trips
• Self-directed field trips
• Rich social media linking
• Competitive or game-like models
Location-based story-telling
Location-based story-telling
• Combine place with narrative
• Learners create their own stories in response to yours
• Reconstruct stories from locations
Thanks!
Thanks!
Miles Metcalfe, Lat: 51.529305, Lon: -0.150504