What is the pedagogy of the iPad?
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What approaches to learning and teaching
does the iPad best support?
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What is the best way to adopt-adapt the iPad
into our lives (to learn the way of the iPad)?
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What can the iPad teach us about ourselves
and the world?
Robert O’Toole, Academic Technology, University of Warwick, March 2014
Ubiquitous Computing
Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre, late 80’s
"the idea of spreading computers ubiquitously, but
invisibly, throughout the environment.”!
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“the anthropologists of the Work Practices and Technology
area within PARC, led by Lucy Suchman, were observing
the way people really used technology, not just the way
they claimed to use technology.”!
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"We wanted to put computing back in its place, to
reposition it back into the environmental background, to
concentrate on human-to-human interfaces, and less on
human-to-computer ones.”!
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"we came to realize that we were, in fact, actually
redefining the entire relationship of humans, work, and
technology for the post-PC era."
Mark Weiser, Rich Gold, John Seely Brown, 1999
From Ubiquitous Computing !
to Ubiquitous Learning
Enhances:
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Resource capability
Ethical capability
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Project capability
Design capability
Resource Capability Examples
Amazon Kindle
Photos
PDF with iAnnotate & Dropbox
Notes Plus
Evernote
Touch Press apps
Project Capability Examples
Google Drive (Docs)
Mindjet (Mindmanager)
Keynote
iMovie
Ethical Capability Examples
Share my discoveries, ideas and results through Wordpress
And through Twitter
Design Capability Examples
1. I ask Nathalie for advice on what app
to use, she demos an app that she uses.
2. I get the app from the Apple App Store instantly,
this is how apps spread.
3. I can start using the app to evaluate how well it
fits with my needs, if it will stick in my workflow,
and how it will help my capabilities to grow.
Activity:
in defence
of the
book
Ian Samson, Paper: An Elegy
Working as a team, create an electronic presentation (poster, slideshow, Prezi or other format) that proves the greatness of
books, by looking at a single, especially important book in the University Library.!
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Hint: don’t just talk about the contents of the book, consider its materiality, its location in the Library, the other books around
it, its importance to its readers (including you) and to history.!
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You will do this in four separate stages: !
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1. choose a book as your special book - use the iPad to check it is on the shelves and to find its location. Use the Library
Catalogue at http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk!
2. go out into the Library and use your iPads to collect photos and videos (of people, places, texts etc) that can inspire your
creative process and which might be used in your presentation.!
3. sit together and review your collections of inspiring images and videos.!
4. working together, create your presentation (WE ARE NOT DOING THIS STAGE TODAY!)
Observer tasks:
Watch how your team members work together, directly and as mediated by the iPad. We are looking for
instances where the iPad might have changed how they do things, how the four capabilities have been
changed. Note down instances of this in the appropriate box, including photo and audio evidence if possible.
Resource capability
Project capability
Ethical capability
Design capability
the world according to Apple
Apple App
Store
The iOS UbiComp System
Buy apps
iOS device
Media Interfaces
Screen-capture
Web browser
Camera & Mic
Files can be copied between apps using “Open In” methods,!
and sent out using communications apps
App Store app
associated with an
iTunes account &
credit card
Photo (and
video) app
Comms
apps
Productivity
apps
iWorks
apps
Purchased
apps
Camera Roll
local storage
In-app local
storage
In-app local
storage
In-app local
storage
In-app local
storage
Other people in
iCloud
iCloud account
associated with
this iPad
In-app local storage for Apple apps
is backed-up and synchronised
through iCloud
Other Apple devices and
computers associated with
this iCloud account
Share: means many things!
iOS7 copy a file to
another app
Creates a NEW FILE!
the world according to the iPad’s users
Apple App
Store
Making the iPad more open
Buy apps
iPad
Media Interfaces
Screen-capture
Camera & Mic
Files can be copied between apps using “Open In” methods,!
and sent out using communications apps
App Store app
associated with an
iTunes account &
credit card
Photo (and
video) app
Comms
apps
Productivity
apps
iWorks
apps
Purchased
apps
Camera Roll
local storage
In-app local
storage
In-app local
storage
In-app local
storage
In-app local
storage
Other people in
iCloud
iCloud account
associated with this
iPad
Other Apple devices and
computers associated with
this iCloud account
Non-Apple cloud
services
Apple and nonApple devices,
shared with others
In-app local storage is
backed-up and
synchronised through nonApple cloud services: e.g.
Dropbox, Evernote.
Processing happens on the
iPad and in the cloud and
on other people’s devices:
e.g. Google Drive
Review: what is the pedagogy of the iPad?
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What approaches to learning and teaching does the iPad best support?
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What is the best way to adopt-adapt the iPad into our lives (to learn the way of the iPad)?
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What can the iPad teach us about ourselves and the world?