In the last two activities, we applied the lens of designer and investor to wearables. In this activity we ask you to think like an educator as you "dress your student for success". Below you'll review some of the pros and cons associated with wearables before you move on to create a wearable solution that best supports the needs of your student.
If you aren't a teacher or parent, dress your younger self, what wearable(s) would have benefitted your learning, your interests and/or your needs?
On one hand...
Before you interact with the interactive activity take a moment to consider wearables and learning. Are we beginning an era of "ulearning" where:
"...Ubiquitous Learning is the result of what has been called the "Internet of things" and that it allows us to get information from many wearable devices to "know" and "act" in the precise moment. The moment teaching-learning enclosed to the school disappears and it is extended in time and space, lengthening the time of the learning process to any human activity. The knowledge is out there and we can get it when we need it, because we have technology in everywhere in artifacts form and wireless." (translated text) Félix Eroles
Before you interact with the interactive activity take a moment to consider wearables and learning. Are we beginning an era of "ulearning" where:
- everything we do and experience can be analyzed, quantified and charted
- learning happens everywhere, continuously
- learning is instantly personalized to best support needs and interests, layered over our world in a seamless, invisible way?
"...Ubiquitous Learning is the result of what has been called the "Internet of things" and that it allows us to get information from many wearable devices to "know" and "act" in the precise moment. The moment teaching-learning enclosed to the school disappears and it is extended in time and space, lengthening the time of the learning process to any human activity. The knowledge is out there and we can get it when we need it, because we have technology in everywhere in artifacts form and wireless." (translated text) Félix Eroles
Or will be there be resistances to the devices, to big data, to big brother?
The possibilities of wearables appear endless but once again we need to move cautiously. Do we want to be monitored all the time? Who owns the data my device gathers? Will my device gather data on others? What will BYOW policies look like?
Finally, will we continue, as we have with past technologies to replicate existing practice or will we redefine learning and teaching as our devices make the reality of any time, any where learning a reality?
"As I have occasionally mentioned it is necessary to develop an appropriated learning methodology which suits Connectivism Theory to the wearables technological use and their ISD (Instructional System Design). But we can already know intuitively that they provide personalization, customization learning experience, bidirectionally between learners and educators, roles exchange relationships between teachers and students in the line of Paulo Freire that both the student and the teacher learn from the other." Félix Eroles
What are your thoughts? Feel free to post a comment, web link or video that examines our slow slide into the interconnectedness of human and machine.
The possibilities of wearables appear endless but once again we need to move cautiously. Do we want to be monitored all the time? Who owns the data my device gathers? Will my device gather data on others? What will BYOW policies look like?
Finally, will we continue, as we have with past technologies to replicate existing practice or will we redefine learning and teaching as our devices make the reality of any time, any where learning a reality?
"As I have occasionally mentioned it is necessary to develop an appropriated learning methodology which suits Connectivism Theory to the wearables technological use and their ISD (Instructional System Design). But we can already know intuitively that they provide personalization, customization learning experience, bidirectionally between learners and educators, roles exchange relationships between teachers and students in the line of Paulo Freire that both the student and the teacher learn from the other." Félix Eroles
What are your thoughts? Feel free to post a comment, web link or video that examines our slow slide into the interconnectedness of human and machine.
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To further explore wearables in Education:
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This video briefly discusses how to navigate the interactive Articulate activity and how to simply create an image to post to the G+ community.
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