Creating Significant Learning Environments
The folks from Mashable have pulled together selection of video demo of apps that are being developed for the iPad. My favorite is the wireframe mockup tool called iMockups for iPad.
If we are looking at potential iPad apps then you can’t leave out Sports Illustrated’s tablet video:
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I have to thank Kenny Jones for bringing the following article to my attention. Marc Benioff chairman and CEO of salesforce.com message to 60 CIOs in various meetings throughout America’s heartland is:
We are moving from Cloud 1 to Cloud 2, and the iPad is the accelerator….What’s most exciting is that this fundamental transformation—cloud + social + iPad—will inspire a new generation of wildly innovative new apps that will change entire industries.
Moving from Cloud 1 to Cloud 2 doesn’t mean dropping all the functionality of cloud 1 rather it means we add the functionality of Cloud 2 to Cloud 1. It is a move from typing and clicking to touch and a move from chatting to video.
Is industry listening–time will tell and Benioff suggests that many CIOs may rather retire than change. What can the academy learn from this? We (the academy) are one of the largest industries in North America and we need to heed this message as well.
R. David Lankes, director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, NY, laments over the fact that today’s batch of ereaders are limited gadgets that do very little to enhance the reading experience. He does acknowledge that he enjoys and readily uses ereaders of various sorts but is hopping for much more. He also points to the fact that collobration with the author other readers and other information is really where the future of ereaders should be.
We are on the cusp of something significant and perhaps with the release of the iPad we will start to scratch the potential of the future of reading and perhaps learning. We do have a long way to go but you have to start somewhere…
21st Century learning requires a very different educational environment. 21st Century literacies are very different that what we see in our traditional model…
It is the death of education but its the dawn of learning
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