Creating Significant Learning Environments
Who is David Kelly?
David is the founder and chairman of IDEO, a California-based design business.
David serves as the Donald W. Whittier professor in the Product Design program at Stanford University, where he also established the school’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also known as the d.school.
Google’s purchase of Motorola not only provides an opportunity for the developers of Android to unify the operating system on a single platform they represent a very strong competitor to Apple. While these two factors alone are significant perhaps even more significant is Larry Page’s recognition of the short and long term impact of technology by pointing the fact that:
Many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, and the impact of that transition will be profound–as will the ability to just tap and pay with your phone.
Google’s purchase of Motorola is just one more very significant building block in the Post-PC era.
The browser is just one more area Microsoft is loosing market share. I use Chrome and Firefox so I am not surprised by this change. This just one more sign pointing to our move into the Post-PC era.
In the article Four Ways the Post-PC Era Differs From Today in Forbes, Maribel Lopez makes the argument that the Post-PC era is not just a shift to mobile devices it is a shift in computing as we know it. Lopez points to four unique attributes that will characterize this era:
We really shouldn’t be surprised by the impact of the cloud. The Gartner Group, in their Top 10 Technologies for 2011 and the New Media Consortium in the Horizon Reports have been predicting this for several years.
Prior to the release of the iPad a mere twenty five months ago the claim that paper textbooks being on borrowed time would have been laughed at by many in academia. Considering the explosive growth of the iPad, Android and Kindle readers over the past two years this claim is not only reasonable it is achievable. Perhaps even more important is the realization that we are moving well beyond just digital text and are looking at
digital content that’s not necessarily restricted to pages.
These changes are happening right now. Brian Kibby, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education states:
I believe in less than 36 months, the idea of having a print product will be far from the norm on most college campuses across the country.
The next few years are going to be very exciting and the closer we get to fully utilizing digital resources to enhance learning the better off we all are.
