This week discussions were about mobile culture and how it impacts us.
While looking for resources to explore, I kept running towards Internet od Things. I believe this will be my A#1 for this course. Anyways, here is my post:
Retrieved from: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/a-guide-to-the-internet-of-things-1299047
Nowadays, more people are wearing devices connected to their smartphone, sending information describing them. These devices, connected day an night, are a powerful source of information. For example, in the world of skiing, the magazines and blogs are talking about wearables today, compared to boots and fabrics, in the last years. (Interesting article) Nothing is stopping the creativity and the possibilities. From outside to inside, we have smarthomes now. Device can detect when you are close to your home and will light the fire, turn on the furnace and open the garage door. Lights will be dimmed when you arrive at night. There is also beds that will adjust to your sleep and mold to your body, depending on how you move. (Smarthomes opportunities)
After that, what’s left to decide in your day? Where will we go with these machines creating opportunities?
Some good articles on the subject.
Following this reflection, I went ahead and looked up some of the ideas from others. In the knowledge miil, I found some interesting ideas and commented on them. It goes like this:
On an app, called App Inventor, :
I did not try App Inventor because I am working in an iOS environment, but I found an option for Mac Users: http://kino.pad2play.com/ . But I agree with you here, programming is quite an interesting way to see the world, with different eyes and I read it will become the new language for our child, soon. As lots of opportunities are happening online, and on mobile devices, it is fairly certain that students will need to learn this evolving language to be able to demonstrate their knowledge. They’ll be able to read the world as well. Those kind of apps simplify the challenge for them and guide them towards the understanding.
On transreality gaming, :
This is an interesting way to spend an afternoon, chasing zombies in the city! 😉 I think this is becoming more available aroud us and it is not going to stop soon. These kind of game kind of social activities are getting people to move. instead of seating on the couch lor behing a screen, it offers opportunities to really accomplish something, … in a fun way. it connects day-to-day life with the mobile world. Our mobile devices are becoming parts of our body, needing to be connected and feeling lost when it’s charging. It’s almost like your brain is off, when you cell is on! It is not a really healthy relationship… (https://inthebestofhealth.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/cell-phone-dependence-a-new-phenomenon/) This is asking the question: Are we too dependant on our cell phones?
Subsequently, i read: Apps that know you-our 6th, 7th & 8th senses, and thought about it:
This is an concept that is growing and expanding nowadays and lots of development are improving our lifes. As mentioned in the second article:”As we move into the next generation of computing, our experience is beginning to morph. It’s an experience that will soon be defined by how we as individuals live our lives, continually adapting and reacting to our lives, and hopefully improving our lives.” We are gettin gbetter at understanding and making it work better and harder for us. Our mobile devices may become almost smarter than us!? Will it guide us on the right path?
The next one on “Moving Mobile Health Past the Hype”:
Pretty impressive, this article. there is many good points and i believe the author is right when he says: “This is fine for the young, intensely self-managed, tech savvy Type 1 patient or parents of kids with diabetes, who are motivated and open to leveraging this kind of technology and may even have a physician with the time and interest in using the data.” It is the case, most of the time. We see the same kind of challenge in schools, I think. The early adopters are not necessarily the ones that need more time to change their practice. When they are moving to the next big move, the others are just beginning to understand the power of the idea. It is not the more ill that are embarking the first. Will it change someday? Is it doomed to stay like this? Only the future will say. Emotions are the best way to touch them and make them move!
And finally, on “Mobile Apps & Assistive Technology”, I found this article very good:
ou are absolutely right here, Shafali. There is so much potential in mobile assistive technology. In my daughter’s classroom, one little as Down Syndrome. He has access to multiple devices for his progress. Among other things, he uses an application to write letters, called Little Writers. He loves this app and learns to write his letters while having fun. If he was trying on paper, it would have been a bit more challenging. The apps offer opportunities for the learner to adapt the learning to their level a lot easier.
Finally, I participated in this week discussion with this idea, on a tool that tells…
It’s funny how at first it was, at least I thought, a tool for the young and those that needed something quick and full of resources. I was so proud when I got my first iPhone. My parents were looking at me with their flip phone on month-to-month plan, and they thought:”What is it about this phone?” Today, in 2016, they both have their own iPad and they are surfing the net for enything and everything. My mother lives on Facebook, with family members, searching for pics from her grand-daughters and hoping to see a new smile from them. Cell phone was a foreign object for them and now we Facetime regularly and they can have a peek at my daughters growing. It does make all the differences in the world. Instead of having her own desktop, in the basement, my mother took a big decision of buying an iPad. Today, she doesn’t regret it at all. She is not a tech savvy, but this is what she need now.
Thanks.