Re-think everything for mobile or you’re toast

Dwayne Harapnuik —  February 27, 2012 — Leave a comment
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hiner/re-think-everything-for-mobile-or-youre-toast/10251?tag=nl.e101

Re-think everything for mobile or you’re toast | TechRepublic via kwout

Back in 2007 before the iPhone was released 90 percent of the systems that connected to the web were Windows PCs. In less than 5 years this has changed to the point that:

In 2012, Gartner projects that worldwide PC sales will reach about 400 million units in 2012, while smartphones will surpass 600 million units. Tablets will sell about 100 million units. That means that only about 35% of the new devices sold this year that will be connecting to the web will be Windows PCs.

The future of the PC is in question:

By 2015, Gartner projects PC sales will grow to over 500 million, but tablets will triple to about 300 million and smartphones will leap past 1.1 billion.

It is obvious that everyone now, and in even more so in the future, will have to develop their web sites and resources for a mobile platform. This will require a rethinking of web sites, customer services, location services and much more. It appears that only the growing pace of change is the constant for the conceivable future.

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Googlelighting

Dwayne Harapnuik —  February 23, 2012 — 3 Comments

http://youtu.be/k4EbCkotKPU

While this is an obvious attempt by Microsoft to take shots at Google, they do raise some serious issues.

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How to Change Organizational Cuture

Dwayne Harapnuik —  February 22, 2012 — Leave a comment
http://michaelhyatt.com/

Michael Hyatt | Intentional Leadership via kwout

When you are working hard to change your organization it doesn’t take long to realize:

culture triumphs vision.

Michael Hyatt provides the following six recommendations for changing the culture in your organization:

  1. Become aware of the culture.
  2. Assess your current culture.
  3. Envision a new culture.
  4. Share the vision with everyone.
  5. Get alignment from your leadership team.
  6. Model the culture you want to create.

You will find variations of this list in most change and leadership literature.  While the whole blog post is well worth reading I am particularly encouraged by Hyatt using Ghandi’s famous saying,

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Hyatt also reminds us that we don’t need to be in an executive suite to bring about this type of change. We can change the culture in our own department or unit and impact the entire organization in the process.

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Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

Dwayne Harapnuik —  February 22, 2012 — Leave a comment

Open Source Ecology

Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last two years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts.

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mLearning is here to stay

Dwayne Harapnuik —  February 21, 2012 — Leave a comment
http://edudemic.com/2012/02/m-learning-mlearning-or-mlearning-3-ways-to-style-it-one-concept-thats-here-to-stay/

M-Learning, MLearning, or mlearning: 3 Ways to Style it & One Concept that’s Here to Stay | Edudemic via kwout

To those who have been working to promote mobile learning the claim that mlearning is here to stay is no surprise. The fact that we use many different names to describe the use of technology to enhance the learning environment, which exists all the time everywhere, is also no surprise because the pendulum swings in education result in many old ideas becoming new again. This blog post and the hundreds more like it are part of the assurance that we have reach a tipping point with mobile learning. Perhaps the key to why mobile learning is here to stay is that it is a very empowering ideal that places the control of learning back with the individual–where is always should have been.

Another wonderful take away from the post is the citing of the EDUCAUSE definition for mobile learning:

Using portable computing devices (such as laptops, tablet PCs, PDAs, and smart phones) with wireless networks enables mobility and mobile learning, allowing teaching and learning to extend to spaces beyond the traditional classroom. Within the classroom, mobile learning gives instructors and learners increased flexibility and new opportunities for interaction. Mobile technologies support learning experiences that are collaborative, accessible, and integrated with the world beyond the classroom (EDUCAUSE Editors, 2012).

The key in this definition is that the learner is once again in control and people outside of the learning theory community are finally recognizing and accepting that learning happens in the world OUTSIDE of the classroom.

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EDUCAUSE Editors. (2012). M-Learning and Mobility. EDUCAUSE. Retrieved February 21, 2012, from http://www.educause.edu/ELI/LearningTechnologies/MLearningandMobility/12397

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