{"id":44990,"date":"2014-03-01T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44990"},"modified":"2014-03-01T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T21:34:06","slug":"reflections-on-tvs-are-becoming-the-next-app-battleground-adler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/03\/01\/reflections-on-tvs-are-becoming-the-next-app-battleground-adler\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;TVs are becoming the next app battleground&#8221; [Adler]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/the-smart-tv-app-industry-4-2014-2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TVs are becoming the next app battleground<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from by Emily Adler<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The app store phenomenon, centered on smartphones and tablets, has been the biggest story in software for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Its next logical destination: the living room, via smart TVs and set-top boxes connected to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intelligence.businessinsider.com\/the-smart-tv-app-revolution-is-coming-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=M-SMARTTV-4&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The smart TV app revolution is inevitable:<\/strong><\/a> People spend four hours in front of their TVs in the U.S., and 63% of all global ad spending goes to TVs. The old guard, represented by cable and entertainment conglomerates, will not be able to fend off improvements like those that apps are bringing to mobile phones.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intelligence.businessinsider.com\/the-smart-tv-app-revolution-is-coming-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=M-SMARTTV-4&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The smart TV revolution will not just be led by new TVs with built-in Internet connections<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/intelligence.businessinsider.com\/the-smart-tv-app-revolution-is-coming-2013-10?utm_source=House&amp;utm_medium=Edit&amp;utm_term=M-SMARTTV-4&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_campaign=BIIMobile\">,<\/a> it will also result from consumer adoption of less expensive game consoles or set-top boxes like Roku and Apple TV, which transform traditional TVs into smart TVs with access to app stores. At least 20% of U.S. consumers already have their TVs connected in one of these ways.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Keep an eye on the convergence of the telephone, the television, and the computer.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Start thinking of ways that you could provide learning\/educationally-based experiences with second screen apps. What would that experience look and act like?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">If such &#8220;channels&#8221; come to fruition &#8212; and happen to coincide with MOOCs and advances in cognitive computing (such as IBM&#8217;s Watson) &#8212; the word<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>disruption<\/em> comes to mind.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The trick, then, will be to offer streams of content that are relevant, and up-to-date.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Such a platform could be used in learning hubs throughout the world, as well as in hybrid\/blended classrooms &#8212; while also addressing lifelong learners from their living rooms.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Such a platform could take <a href=\"http:\/\/wenger-trayner.com\/theory\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Communities of Practice<\/em><\/a> to an entirely new level.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30701\" alt=\"The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart\/Connected TV\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg 616w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39296\" alt=\"streams-of-content-blue-overlay\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/streams-of-content-blue-overlay.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/streams-of-content-blue-overlay.jpg 575w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/streams-of-content-blue-overlay-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Addendum\/also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/tech\/THE-INTERNET-OF-EVERYTHING-2014-SLIDE-DECK\/slideshow\/31124354.cms\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45013\" alt=\"IoE-SmartTVs-Feb2014\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IoE-SmartTVs-Feb2014.jpg\" width=\"393\" height=\"702\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TVs are becoming the next app battleground &#8212; from by Emily Adler Excerpt: The app store phenomenon, centered on smartphones and tablets, has been the biggest story in software for the past five years. Its next logical destination: the living room, via smart TVs and set-top boxes connected to the Internet. &#8230; The smart TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,354,472,435,356,318,209,208,127,433,498,31,57,72,8,286,18,275,9,143,95,458,149,180,482,124,276,55,510,559,408,14,245,505,199,406,23,509,239,62,133,219,279,69,309,526,84,166,105,491,66,40,466,518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-active-learning","category-analytics","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-australia","category-changing-business-models","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-communities-of-practice","category-convergence","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-audio","category-digital-learning","category-digital-storytelling","category-digital-textbooks","category-digital-video","category-disruption","category-global-globalization","category-india","category-informal-learning","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-interactivity","category-internet","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-hubs","category-mediafilm","category-mobile-learning","category-mobile-technologies","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-motivation","category-multimedia","category-near-field-communication-nfc","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-online-tutoring","category-participation","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-platforms","category-second-screen-apps","category-smart-classrooms","category-social-learning-networks","category-social-media","category-streams-of-content","category-student-related","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-television","category-tvs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44990"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45015,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44990\/revisions\/45015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}