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In what ways do you think mobile tech in particular makes us more "human"? (you can keep it succinct or link to a vlog or blog post)CREATIVE: In what ways do you think mobile tech in particular fosters or enables creativity? I need specific anecdotes, apps, or projects/examplesREFLECTIVE: In what ways do you think mobile tech in particular allows/encourages us to be more reflective - about our work or ourselves? I need specific anecdotes, apps, or projects/examplesCONNECTIVE: In what ways do you think mobile tech in particular enables/ encourages us to be more connective - both to eachother (globally or locally) and to nature (by freeing us from the binds of a "lab")? I'm looking for specific anecdotes, apps, or projects/examplesOther: a place to put other thoughts, questions, or links to resources you think I should have
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@amyburvallIf you are participating in this - thank you! I am working on a keynote and other project and appreciate your insight...was just reading the comments on this: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/essential-skills-of-mobile-classroom-beth-holland
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@ColleenKRWe aren't as limited. Mobile tech provides multiple opportunities to connect with others, and to express ourselves. Communication can be immediate or filtered by time, depending on our needs. Creativity is limitless -- we have fewer reasons to hold back our ideas with others.I'm not sure if this is more creative or connective, but here's a short video that may help: http://youtu.be/Cgj_tbn8vaQ Students who use their phones to take pictures of their work & post to their blog (using an app) are learning to be reflective. http://northernartteacher.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/whats-the-big-deal-about-blogs/ Class hashtags: - #TOKkailua, #SandersTHS, #NipRockArt
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@kmallweinHumans need social contact. A highly mobile society especially in an urban area means that it may be harder to connect with family, friends and neighbors. Mobile technology can keep us in contact in multiple ways - synchronously with one person or groups or asynchronously through other apps like social media and emailUse of a mobile camera to capture visual ideas for any number projects. Yesterday while visiting an optometry shop to get my friend's glasses fixed, we saw three beautiful painted eggs with inlaid mosaics (glass and broken pottery). I took pictures and shared them with my friends. We are all going to see if we can use those pictures to create something similar. I have a friends who use their tablets to create art using applications - they often generate a concept using an art app and then produce the picture using the real materials (oils, watercolors, etc). The mobile app allows them to do the work anywhere - while commuting, doing the laundry, waiting in the doctor's office. It also enables them to tweak the ideas beyond the picture before they waste a lot of expensive supplies and time to get the effect they want (note: this is also reflective since there is an aspect of reviewing and modifying the work one or more times). I also use my camera to take various stages of my mixed media pictures. I can't stand back and look at the pictures while I'm working it since the pieces are glued down yet. So taking the picture allows me to reflect on what I am trying to say with that picture.
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@clonghbIt helps connect us by removing the barriers of time and space.I'm not entirely on-board with this assertion, because mobile tech limits you to the confines of a screen that's about the size of a bussines card. That being said, having a camera on you at nearly all times enables you to do things like take photo walks and experiment with perspective and then app stack with multiple image editing apps and tell a story or record a video.

Project Example: Rather than lecturing to my students on the key kinematics concepts, I had them working in collaborative groups to make a one-minute or less video. Not everyone had smart phones so the students with smart phones that were willing to use them were spred out so each group had one. Here is an example of one of the videos. http://youtu.be/izFNH98Q4lo

I bet @magrelacanela would have lots of examples... i'll send a link to her		@dkuropatwa #whilewalkings is the best example that comes to mind, but you already know about how cool those are.

Now that just about everyone has a video camer on them at all times and our students are coming to class with them, this alone should provide the impetus for us to reflect. "What if one of my students recorded our class today?" I've done manythings in my class that I've allowed (encouraged) my studetns to record. It's great becuase they post it on Facebook, YouTube, Vine Etc and then the learning can go viral.

Sometimes it can backfire on ya: http://youtu.be/Z2JB0YMq4SA		This is the most obvious of the 3. I can be waiting for some take-out and get on Twitter and have some of the deepest most meaninful conversations about education ever. Today, I was doing just that around the topic of "standardization vs. personalization" in Education. It really caused me to think about what I beleive, why I beleive it and how I could challege others to re-frame the Common Core as something to be exploited rather than ressisted. I know you'll do this but it's a catchy phrase. "share your work"
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@APTaylorIt provides a space for us share our beliefs, ideas, struggles and desires to everyone or no one. The potential to connect with others who can affirm or challenge those positions can enhance and deepen the experience of being "human" and one with "humanity".Mobile Tech helps me creatively primarily by checking out other people's blogs, twitter feeds: I learn so much from the collective mind! This is the one I took from today: http://thereadinessisall.com/2014/03/11/need-to-kill-a-period-remix-it/. The ideas on black out poems reminded me of Burroughs in the sixties! http://rethinkingdiversity.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/shutting-up-a-social-justice-tool/ I found this blog through a poster that I identifed with when I reading through an ed chat this morning. The aritcle helps remind me to remian concious of my position in my classroom, my school, my home and community.
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@johnmayoPeople have always sought to communicate as share and be social - human are a social being Students have a computer in their hands- Jonassen called computer mind tools- tools to think with but in their hand they are tools to create with. hashtags on twitter help to share - help bring people together, helps to bring Hawaii to Galway :-P
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@GlosonFirst, I need to know what you mean by "human" :). But I guess my short answer it, mobile tech doesn't make us more human, but it acts as a channel to convey our humanness, I guess.Mobile tech fosters creativity because it allows you to share your work with others more easily. Before, we need to go on a stage to share your work. Now, you can do it with a touch of several buttons. Sorry if my answer is too general. :PToggl.com allows you to log your time spent on projects, allowing you to reflect on your productivity and giving you a better sense of time.Well, instead of being stuck in a lab, you can bring a mobile tablet into nature (e.g. a park). If we express ourselves online, I think it allows us get to know one another better, and break some ice when meeting in-person.You can place your response here to my question in the magenta column. :)
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@flipozThe drive to inquire, connect, communicate, develop, create, express, hear, understand and reflect are deeply human traits. Mobile tech is intertwined unretrievably in all of these at many different levels.Access to knowledge, techniques, how-to videos and resources are literally at our finger tips 24/7. A wonderful spur to activity and inspiration.The ability to record audio, video and images instantly and share these to receive instant feedback provides huge opportunities to have our ideas and creations challenged. A quick search of a new idea can quickly provide a stimulus that causes ideas to evolve or establish.Instantaneous connection to people and ideas from around the world is addictive, compelling us to explore further.I wonder about the proportions between consuming:creating:interacting for individuals. Was does our own personal ratio look like and what does it tell us about ourselves?
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@emilymccarrenWe get to access and connect with so many more realities. We are instantly global as opposed to just connected to the community in which we happen to find ourselves. Without the limits of space and time, suddenly we have much more agency with respect to how we define our own tribe.Just that it is always with you-- you don't have to wait to create. this is not new, but now you can create and share so easiy and quickly. We are constantly invited to reflect and share. As an educator, I can't learn something or see something in a school without thinking about my broad (non geographically bound) community that might benefit from seeing or thinking about the same thing. The ongoing challenge is not just to create and share but to make shared meaning--to create something together that you wuold not have been able to do alone. This could be as simple as sharing information with a tag or hashtag so that it can be curated easily. A few weeks ago many of my students went out looking at grafitii in urban Honolulu-- their reflections were all filmed on mobile devices, and it connected our class to eachother and to the community outside of our school as well, and to other communities globally that value this medium of artistic expression.
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@steelemaleyhttp://fieldnotes.in/post/79886866667/q-in-what-ways-do-you-think-mobile-tech-in-particularhttp://fieldnotes.in/post/79888138481/q-creative-in-what-ways-do-you-think-mobile-tech-inMobile Tech allows for the type of place and sensemaking that Ruitenberg (2005) elucidates: http://fieldnotes.in/post/55022871317/if-one-wishes-to-educate-students-to-have-a
An example: http://steelemaley.net/2014/03/06/a-networked-learning-ecology/
Downes (2012) Connectivism and Connective Knowledge http://www.downes.ca/post/58207 London Mobile Learning Group: http://www.londonmobilelearning.net/ JISC Mobile Learning: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/topics/mobilelearning.aspx Findery: https://findery.com/ Thoughts for the autoethnographically inclined teacher: @triciawang (2012) http://ethnographymatters.net/2012/08/02/writing-live-fieldnotes-towards-a-more-open-ethnography/
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@rogreHumans are curious. Humans are observant. Humans look for patterns. Humans are social. Mobile technology allows humans to be all of those things: finding answers, noticing things (and recording) both visible and invisible, finding patterns, and communicating with each other.Instagram and Flickr (and other photo sharing applications) and "the best camera is the camera that you have with you" + see also video (Vimeo, YouTube, etc.) + Twitter (see @tejucole for a great example) as a literary device +http://www.buzzfeed.com/aaronc13/author-teju-cole-talks-his-new-essay-on-immigration-twitter + http://www.tejucole.com/small-fates/ + another literary work that uses mobile http://www.thesilenthistory.com/No first-hand experience with these, but intrigued by them: http://www.reporter-app.com/ + http://kennedyapp.com/texting, photosharing (and commenting), leaving reviews of places/things (foursquare, Yelp, https://findery.com/), fieldguides (http://leafsnap.com/ + http://phantomcity.org/)Mobile phone as vade mecum https://twitter.com/litherland/status/222854164936540161, Lapka (no first-hand experience with it) https://mylapka.com/, the Big here http://kk.org/helpwanted/archives/001084.php + http://magicalnihilism.com/2006/07/11/here-20-big-here-little-screen/, SpaceTeam http://www.sleepingbeastgames.com/spaceteam/, Psychogeography http://www.brokencitylab.org/drift/ + http://serendipitor.net/ + https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crowsflight/id444185307?mt=8
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@dkiangMobile technology makes us more human in the fact that we can record thoughts “in-the-moment” and share those thoughts fluidly and with relatively little editing or filtering. We encourage students to be “publishers” but too many teachers have this idea that pieces need to be edited and polished before they go up “on the bulletin board.” I encourage teachers to widen their view of “publishing” to encompass tweets, Instagram posts, SnapChat selfies… once they do that I think they see that teenagers are publishing and sharing all the time using mobile technology, and these glimpses of less carefully-put-together posts, makes them more human — and we become more human by viewing these posts because it leads us to a greater understanding of what matters to them!Again I think that spontaneity is an important aspect of sharing, and when we are globally connected via mobile technologies, it allows us to inspire, and be inspired by, people all over the world. One nice example of this is the Virtual Choir — I think the guy gave a TED Talk about this. It allowed him to combine the voices of thousands of people who would never be able to sing together in a real auditorium, and create a beautiful musical piece linking all of these people across the world by the universal language of music. Another nice example of mobile technologies that connect people together is the Virtual Photo Walks project using Google Hangouts. Basically, a photographer goes out on a safari, or visits a beach in some remote location, and is able to connect all of these people who wouldn’t be able to go there themselves. The cool thing is that they are all visiting this place together, like about five or six people, and they can direct where they want him to go, how to move the camera, etc. Some of the participants had lupus, or were very old and infirm, and this was literally the only way they could have an experience like this. It’s very moving. I have a video saved from NBC Nightly News about this. Here it is: https://db.tt/ZPNzTiGoVirtual Photo Walks (NBC Nightly News) https://db.tt/ZPNzTiGo
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@dajbelshawI'm not sure it makes us more human, although any technology tells redefine what it means to *be* human, I guess.I'm not sure about others, but thoughts tend to strike me at odd times, which makes having a mobile device available handy for recording these. A pen and paper counts as mobile technology as much as a smartphone!I'd argue that the opposite can be true - constant immersion in the stream can make us *less* reflective.Through my Twitter dashboard I can keep tabs on things I think are important (which changes over time). I can take notifications from this anywhere I am.
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@TeacherTownsendI believe it allows to both communicate with one another on a greater level but also permits us to be honest in how we communicate our feelings and needs.This is not an easy question as you've targeted mobile tech specifically, but I could point at Instagram. I've got middle school students who are using Instagram to perfect and hone their photography skills. These young photgraphers are learning skills re: lighting, focus, and composition that would have been impossible to do at such a negligible cost when I was their age.Mobile blogging is one way that we are enabled to be reflective. I see students working on and correcting projects while on the bus. Interestingly enough, selfies are also a form of reflection, literally. I hear kids ask one another "why would you make that face" or "why would you take a selfie there" and the student who took the picture is forced to metacognate. It's pretty cool.My students use GAFE to collaborate on projects all the time. I would also agree that #hashtags have helped greatly in the area of connectivity.
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@misssballConnections. Stories. Appreciation of art or thoughts. Instant access to other worlds that used to be so far away, or so time consuming to access.Instagram, Flickr, Twitter, etc.. We are artists and poets and philosphers. Some may find it annoying and hipster and banale, but I think it leads to more and more creativity. And I think the speed of apps and mobile actually contributes to "slow journalism" as people slow down to notice, to woder, to be curious.Because of phones and apps, everyone is an artist. Art is a reflection (and commentary) on reality. Thus by nature our mobile tech assumes reflection - if we use it.The virality of good stuff can't be contained, and that is a good thing. Curiosity connects us, and mobile makes it easy.
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@JosephGliddonIf you take the position that other people are what makes us human. Then the mobile phone connects us to more people more of the time - making us more human. Another way of looking at this is to consider what makes us human (and I did this for EDC mooc http://morethanjustcontent.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/what-is-a-human-edcmooc/ ). My definition was "a tool creating, social/collaborative, being with linguistic capabilities who is part of a community of other human beings" - a mobile phone enhances my ability/reach in all 4 of those thingsI take more photo's now (never did when I had to go and get the camera). And I mess about with effects on the photos. I also do short videos using the mobile (think video selfies). It allows me to capture things that I can use later (I tend to do my creating on a bigger screen). When my Son was doing his Victorian project (he did HG Wells)( https://plus.google.com/photos/105215171021531636343/albums/5995117859134242497?authkey=CJ7-kMrR6d336wE ) I took photos of his work and then we took a few photos of his Tripod model setting up a shot with the dolls house.Northhampton University - sent students on a geography field trip and used the Blackboard app (there are other VLEs :) to allow students to contribute to the class blog. Pictures from phones were attached, field notes were typed, audio was recorded. They even kept going in pooring rain (when normally the paper clipboards would have meant they had to stop recording data because the paper would get wet). ............................................... I personally am a bit more reflective because I jot down thoughts (I use google keep) which I then later make into blog posts (well if they were good thoughts)G+ would be the most useful connective app. I also like hangouts/skype. It sounds a bit old fashioned but actually making phone calls (and the mobile advantage is you and they always have a phone). .................. I do sometimes think that people have a danger of failing to connect to what is immediately around them due to being distracted by whatever it is they are connected to via their phone
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@lalquierThey literally make us "more" human (super-human?) as they augment our senses in many ways. We can alter what we see through camera apps. Find our way on a map or in dark places with flashlight apps. Get notified when we are near something interesting or avoid people completely. Identify songs (Shazam) or things (Google goggles). They let us broadcast our choices or presence. Record notes, dreams even bookmark moments (check the Kennedy app on iOS). The moment I realized I could just take a picture of useful things like my license plate or the printer model to find the right set of ink hit me like an epiphany :) My phone is my external memory and my interface to a whole network of people and abilities.Mobile techs exposed me to a whole range of ideas of projects to nurture my creativity (InstaCC for daily pics, 1SE for a one sec video a day, Pinterest or StumbleUpon for unlimited inspiration, unlimited videos tutorials on YouTube to accelerate learning) and to motivate me to get better (TED, Lift app).The experience was indirect for me. I learned a lot about myself by trying to rein in my use of mobile / web content. Once you realize how much time you spend just roaming from site to site, you can start learning about GTD, Inbox Zero, Mindfulness, Mediation, Crap detection, Filters, Quantified self and so on. Interestingly enough, I wouldn;t have found the right tools, practices and teachers without the same mobile tech I was trying to control better. Lift and Feedly are essential to keep my sanity.Mobile Techs amplify the ways we can connect with one another. They foster serendipity. Of course, they can be abused and misused - they can keep us in our own narcisistic bubble.. but they can also liberate us if we learn to use them properly. They can allow us to be as inclusive or selective as we want in how much we expose of ourselves and how inclusive we want to be of others. Twitter is a fantastic source of references to new and unexpected works and people. I recommend following a few people completely outside of your normal realm for true exposure to something new.I really admire the creativity and energy you and your students are injecting into these projects. Never let it go. I discovered it like a treasure trove through that interview with Howard Rheingold and I have been enjoying every bit so far. There are so many concepts in here that could be used for social collaboration literacy among adults in the workplace (see Jane Hart's blog for instance - http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/ ).
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