Mobile Devices in Education: An Alternative Approach Ruben R. Puentedura, Ph.D.
Context: the Horizon Report
The 2010 Horizon Report Mobile Computing Simple Augmented Reality Gesture-Based Computing One Year or Less Two to Three Years Four to Five Years Open Content Electronic Books Visual Data Analysis
The 2009 Horizon Report Mobiles Geo-Everything Semantic-Aware Applications One Year or Less Two to Three Years Four to Five Years Cloud Computing The Personal Web Smart Objects
The 2008 Horizon Report Grassroots Video Mobile Broadband Collective Intelligence One Year or Less Two to Three Years Four to Five Years Collaboration Webs Data Mashups Social Operating Systems
The 2007 Horizon Report User-Created Content Mobile Phones The New Scholarship & Emerging Forms of Publication One Year or Less Two to Three Years Four to Five Years Social Networking Virtual Worlds Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming
The 2006 Horizon Report Social Computing The Phones In Their Pockets Augmented Reality & Enhanced Visualization One Year or Less Two to Three Years Four to Five Years Personal Broadcasting Educational Gaming Context-Aware Environments & Devices
The 2010 Horizon Report K-12 Edition Cloud Computing Mobiles Augmented Reality One Year or Less Two to Three Years Four to Five Years Collaborative Environments Game-Based Learning Flexible Displays
The 2009 Horizon Report K-12 Edition Online Communication Tools Mobiles The Personal Web One Year or Less Two to Three Years Four to Five Years Collaborative Environments Cloud Computing Smart Objects
Horizon Report Metatrends Communication between humans and machines Multimodal Interfaces (2004) Context Aware Computing (2004) Context Aware Computing (2005) Context Aware Environments & Devices (2006) Now 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 X X X X Collective sharing & generation of knowledge Learning Objects (2004) Intelligent Searching(2005) Knowledge Webs (2004) Knowledge Webs (2005) Scholarly Mashups (Geotagging) (2008) New Scholarship and Forms of Publication (2007) Collective Intelligence & Open Resources/Data (2008) X X? X? X? Games as Pedagogical Platforms Educational Gaming (2005) X Educational Gaming (2006) X? Virtual Worlds (2007) X? Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming (2007) Connecting people through the network Ubuiquitous Wireless (2005) X Extended Learning (2005) X Social Computing (2006) X Social Networking (2007) X Social Networks (2005) X Seamless Virtual Collaboration (2008) X? Social operating Systems (2008) X? X? Computing inhree dimensions SVG/Flash/PDF (2004) X Rapid Prototyping (2004) X Virtual Worlds (2007) X? Augmented Reality(2005) Augmented Reality & Enhanced Visualization (2006) X? X? Shifting content production to users Learning Objects (2004) Personal Broadcasting (2006) X User-Created content (2007) X Ubiquitous Video (2008) X? Evolution of a ubiquitous platform Mobile Phones (2006) multimedia capture X Mobile Phones (2007) personal digital repository X? Mobile Phones (2008) applications/web X? X's represent the moment the tipping point was/will be likely reached
Connecting people through the network Computing in three dimensions Evolution of a ubiquitous platform Communication between humans and machines Metatrends (Since 2004) Collective sharing & generation of knowledge Games as pedagogical platforms Shifting content production to users
Creative Devices In the World
The Lively Sketchbook
Ubiquity Intimacy Embeddedness
The Curiosity Amplifier
General Search Media Search and Identification Lifestyle Search Social Network Participation News Augmented Reality Books
Time to Create: HTML 5
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