Fwd: [kaleidoscope ] 2nd Call: Beyond Mobile Learning Workshop
Jari Laru
jari.laru at oulu.fi
Wed Oct 11 14:42:51 CST 2006
Dear colleagues,
FYI: Workshop in mobile learning. The workshop is one of a series
at the exciting and innovative 'Alpine Rendezvous ', to be held in
Villars, Switzerland on January 21st - 23rd 2007
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Jari Laru. Tutkijakoulutettava, KM. (Doctoral student, M.Ed)
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Edelleenlähetetty viesti alkaa:
> Lähettäjä: Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez <Macu.Arnedillo at cs.tcd.ie>
> Päiväys: 26. syyskuuta 2006 20.20.34 GMT+03:00
> Vastaanottaja: <kaleidoscope at noe-kaleidoscope.org>
> Aihe: [kaleidoscope ] 2nd Call: Beyond Mobile Learning Workshop
> Vastaus: kaleidoscope at noe-kaleidoscope.org, Inmaculada Arnedillo-
> Sánchez <Macu.Arnedillo at cs.tcd.ie>
>
> 2nd Call for participation at Beyond Mobile Learning Workshop
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> If you are a researcher or practitioner, with an interest in Mobile
> Learning, this workshop will be of interest to you.
>
> The workshop is one of a series at the exciting and innovative
> 'Alpine Rendezvous ', to be held in Villars, Switzerland on January
> 21st - 23rd 2007
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> Beyond Mobile Learning: Innovating Rather Than Replicating Existing
> Learning Scenarios
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> Scope: The purpose of the workshop is to explore the future of
> learning enabled by mobile technology. It address approaches to
> mobile learning that go beyond merely leveraging off the mobility
> of the devices to replicate or augment existing learning scenarios
> and it will focus on scenarios that attempt to create learning
> opportunities which would not be possible without mobile
> technology. In particular, mobile learning approaches founded on
> Collaborative, Constructionist and Contextual pedagogical
> principles that bank on the data collection, location aware and
> collaborative capabilities of mobile devices.
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> Context: The ever increasing availability of wireless portable
> devices, financial, logistical and technical reasons have provided
> a rich environment for the proliferation of mobile learning
> scenarios, applications and research. Mobile Learning experiences
> and tools have been classified according to their educational
> objectives (Gay et al 2002), upon activity (Roschelle 2003) and by
> educational theory they support (Naismith et al. 2005). More
> recently, Pattern et al. (2006) have proposed a more extensive
> framework encompassing functionality and pedagogy.
>
> The Functional-pedagogical Framework (Pattern et al. 2006)
> identifies seven categories: Administration; Referential;
> Interactive; Micro-world; Data Collection; Location-Aware and
> Collaborative. While the former replicate learning experiences
> enabled by ‘static technology’, the later leverage off the unique
> attributes of handheld devices allowing for the creation of
> learning opportunities which would not be possible without mobile
> technology. Thus, it argues that the data collection, location
> aware and collaborative categories are particularly suited to
> mobile learning when they are informed by collaborative, contextual
> and constructionist learning theories.
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> Format: The workshop runs from Sunday 21st January to Tuesday 23rd
> January 2007 and takes place within the context of the Kaleidoscope
> CSCL Alpine Rendez-vous organized by the Kaleidoscope CSCL SIG. The
> daily timetable includes a break from 12:30 till 16:30 for skiing
> or sightseeing.
>
> The workshop is envisaged as a highly interactive event with three
> sessions, two dedicated to practical experiences intended as a
> journey from present to future innovative technology enhanced
> mobile learning and one to the presentation of short papers that
> will be published in a book of proceedings. The two hands-on-
> experiences involve fun activities and serious reflection:
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> The production of a ‘film’ entirely ‘shot’ on mobile phones: Upon
> collaborative generation of a storyline (facilitated by a semi-
> structured grounding tool), participants are divided into groups:
> the image, the sound and the editing group. With the
> ‘script’ (output of the grounding tool) in hand, to provide common
> ground, the image and sound group go on location to ‘shoot’ while
> the editing group stays in the editing station. As the media is
> being capture this is transferred to the editors who can start
> editing shortly after the crews have arrived on location. While
> shooting and editing, other communication channels are available to
> the participants to repair, augment and maintain the common ground
> if needed. By the time crew and cast are back in the editing
> station, the first version of the ‘film’ is ready for viewing.
> Final editing and production take place as a whole group activity.
> This hands-on activity will be followed by the decomposition and
> analysis of the experience in relation to core learning principles
> and how mobile technology can support these. The method has been
> used over the past two years with over 100 participants ranging
> from teenagers in an outreach programme, young children in the
> Irish Museum of Modern Art, children and teenagers from the
> shantytowns of Cape Town, postgraduate students, school teachers
> and researchers among others.
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> 2. A Future Technology Workshop (FTW): This is a
> structured method to actively envision and design future
> interactions between people and technology. The aim of this session
> will be to envision and explore the relations between future
> learning activities and mobile technologies. The method has been
> developed through the MOBIlearn and Kodak Children as Photographers
> projects, and has been used with both children and adults on themes
> including 'the future of capturing and sharing images', and 'future
> healthcare with mobile technology'. The sessions include
> Imagineering, Modelling, Role-play, Retrofit, Everyday, Futurefit,
> and Requirements.
>
> Participants: The workshop will involve about 20 participants,
> including members of the Kaleidoscope Mobile Learning SIG and
> others with an interest in mobile learning.
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> Important dates: Expressions of interest, with either a short
> abstract of your paper, if you intend to present one, or a short
> description of relevant research interest should be submitted by
> email to the workshop coordinator (Macu.Arnedillo at cs.tcd.ie) by
> 30th October. Those whose work is accepted will be notified by 6th
> November and they will be requested to submit a longer position
> paper by 31st November.
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> Costs: The cost per participant will be 500 CHF (approx. €320;
> including registration and 2 night accommodation on full-board
> basis). It is hope that Kaleidoscope members will receive financial
> support through the Mobile Learning SIG however funding
> availability won’t be confirmed till later on in the year.
>
>
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> Location: The workshop is located in Villars (http://
> www.villars.ch/), Switzerland, a ski resort located 90 km from
> Geneva airport. It can easily be reached by train. The closest main
> city, Lausanne, has excellent train connections with Paris, Lyon,
> Torino or Germany. The Geneva airport (http://www.gva.ch/) has many
> worldwide connections including several low-cost companies
> operating over Europe.
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> Additional information: Our workshop participants are in addition
> welcome to join the Rendez-Vous day of the CSCL Alpine Rendez-Vous
> (from Tuesday 23rd at 18:30 till Wednesday 24th at 19:00) with a
> set of activities that gather participants from all workshops. The
> costs will be about 300 CHF (approx. €190 which includes one more
> hotel night and the social event on Tuesday night).
>
>
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> Organizers: Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez (Trinity College Dublin),
> Mike Sharples (University of Nottingham), Giasemi Vavoula (The Open
> University), Brendan Tangney (Trinity College Dublin)
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> Workshop coordinator: Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez
> (Macu.Arnedillo at cs.tcd.ie
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> Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez
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> CRITE (Centre for Research in IT in Education)
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> Dept. Computer Science and Education
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> Trinity College Dublin
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> Dublin 2
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> Ireland
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> Tel: +353-1-608-3661
> Fax: +353-1-677-2204
> Email: Macu.Arnedillo at cs.tcd.ie
> http://www.cs.tcd.ie/crite
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