15.09Did You Know 4.0?
The new version of the Shift Happens / Did You Know video has been released on YouTube. This one focusses on the changing media landscape.
Some interesting information here. Thanks to Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod for this latest version.
I think the shift to pocket devices is the most interesting. I use my Nokia N95 a lot to check my email, but I only use it on a few websites. Mainly to check football scores, twitter and facebook. It’s very tricky to log into sites using predictive text, so I avoid it.
But having played with my wife’s new iPhone, really shows how it could be done. I thought the N95 was cutting edge when it came out, but thats nearly 2 years ago now. It’s much more of a portable personal communication device – with easier text input, better browsing etc.
More and more students will be bringing these powerful devices into the classroom. How do we harness that technology? Should we make them switch them off? Or make use of them?
How pointless is a filtered school network when the kids can access any website they want in the playground? (I once heard a teacher state that there was more bandwidth being used in the playground than in the rest of the school)
We should be teaching and promoting responsible use of these devices. Yes there are risks of them being stolen, of students filming/photographing teachers and each other in inappropriate ways. What are your school policies for dealing with this?
Here’s a great blog post by Mark Prensky: “Should a 4 year old have an iPhone?“. Makes you think. My 4 year old niece loves my wife’s iPhone. She took to some of the games really quickly. She loved animal snap 
These kids are going to grow up with these devices in their pocket, in a much more connected world that we ever had when we were growing up.
How do we make the best, appropriate use of this tech? And educate safe use? I’m not proposing any answers here, but it is something we need to be addressing. We’re supposed to be preparing students for the future, but we seem to be doing it by living in the past and pretending this techological shift isn’t happening.
For some more interesting facts, the 2.0 version of Did You Know can be seen here. and also check out the Did You Know Wiki.
(And yes, I have a month to wait and I can upgrade to an iPhone. I could do it now but 02 never seem to have any in stock!)
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September 15th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Great post – Really makes you think, what will “Did you know 14.0″ look like?
I wrote a longer post in response to this vid here: http://www.sosticky.co.uk
September 17th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Very interesting post. Cellphones are a touchy subject in administrative meetings and amongst teachers in schools across the United States including my home state of New York. As a student teacher of Social Studies and a substitute teacher I have always followed the school’s no phone policy. I agree that schools need to teach students how to use the technology appropriately for educational purposes because these devices can be utilized in such ways. In my class, for example, I created a “checking for understanding” activity where I allowed the students to create a “text message” to a friend about what was occurring during the Black Plague. I even allowed the students to use “texting” language, which allowed the students to be creative was also allowing them to demonstrate to me that they understood and related to content being taught in the lesson. I would have preferred if the students could actually text across the classroom for this activity, but since the school had a no phone use policy I could not. Do you think there is anyway teachers could manage student use of cellphones in the classroom, and could the teachers prove they could to a school administration?
September 19th, 2009 at 7:16 pm