Learning Ecosystems

From DSC:

I’ve been trying to figure out the best ways to incorporate a BYOD/BYOT into the Smart Classroom.  That is, how can students’ devices seamlessly communicate with the main displays around the classroom? How can they quickly display a blog posting or a Google doc for example…or play a song they wrote, etc.  So I was excited to wake up this morning with the following concept/idea:

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Other features/thoughts:

• Line of sight communications — students must be in the room to display something up on the main displays
• Information travels many ways:  From large multitouch displays/walls to students’ devices and vice versa; so a professor could hit “Save” in order to send his/her annotations to all of the students’ devices (allowing them to be more cognitively present — vs madly writing down what the professor is writing)
• The Smart Classroom’s infrastructure becomes like a multi-thredded processor — instantaneously and simultaneously handling a far greater amount of data — going in multiple directions
  
• What’s an interesting idea here is for discipline-specific, cloud-based storage mechanisms for students who want to contribute their pieces of content to their schools repositories of content
• This topic reminds me of a graphic I created a while back, re: The “Chalkboard” of the Future:
  

So…what if the 4 screen’s on Julong’s Ultra-IPBOARD were coming from 4 different sources? Perhaps:

1. One from a publisher’s cloud-based content repository
2. Another from a stream of content originating from a student’s iPad
3. Another from a stream of content originating from the Smart Classroom’s PC or Mac
4. …and the last source originating from a student’s smartphone?

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