Predictions for the future are hard to make.

Clay Shirky

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
Interesting

Exploration.. From our current Bearings to the Future

Desk top ownership down 71 - 41 %
laptop 65 - 88%
More than 90% use

  • library
  • presentation Software
  • Social NEtworking
  • Text Messaging

Withing a year 63% will have smart phones

2 new blogs, 7 computers sold, 1347 youtube

Facbook is the most populous country in the world

(250 million)

Per month-- 66 thousand years of time on Social Networking.

In the Cloud

Drigo, Live Audience , Zoho, and many tother tools.

Zephyr Teach out.. Washington Post

Cringley - Higher could be like Itunes.

The Wired Campus - PBS NPR have lectures on line.

Will Amazon do it?

Drivers – Technology and Constructivism

New Drivers – Mobile Technology, Cloud Technology, NetGens (Social Networking)

Learning - Formal - informal - Virtual

Whole campus is part of the whole fabric

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What is an environment

  • Sense of place and purpose
  • Anywhere anytime any place
  • Mix of planned and unplanned
  • Range of participants, Systems and forces
  • Dynamic flux of roles

Learning resources practices spaces

Classrooms - old Chalkboards, Overhead.

new Dynamic , Connected Participatory and unpredictable.

Participatory - unpredictability

Trends

  • HUman factors
  • Verbs no nouns
  • Community Infrainstructure
  • Multipurpose rooms
  • Participation-enabling design
  • Tech outfitting

Challenges

Design, Perception, Cost Support, Distraction, Assessment

Multi purpose rooms

Technology Trends

Presentation Capture, Video Conferencing, Display Technology

Organic _LED

Challenges

Good Design is hard to find

Design Everyday Things - Don Norman

Visibility

Feedback

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Tidebreak

(MultiUse Flexible Space!!

Sustainable Space

Integrated Formal and informal spaces

Smart Environements

Flexible, Accessible
)

  • What do you want to do with Technology

Factors driving learning space design

Emerging Trends

Educause review – interaction Age – Andrew MIlne

Building a learning community - introduces each other
Establishes a pattern of behaviour - Ask for help
Review Prereq material .. - Build the material together
Assessing student knowledge
Student -led discussion.

Fluid TEchnology - Whiteboard
Build the content vs delivering it
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Definition of teaching

The purposeful structuring of experiences from which students cannot escape without learning..

Reconsidering Pedagogical Approaches

2010
Focus on social constructivism
Situated Peer-to-peer learning
Ubiquitous networked devices
Low-cost high resolution

...

Faculty led presentation – student "co-learning"

Space + Activity = place

Connecting
Discussing
commenting/arguing
freehand sketching/ writing
showing/demonstrating
Searching
Capturing

Define the problem well.

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