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Learning-to-go revolution or evolution.

Wearable smartphone and arm keyboard

Lessons from the 23rd International Conference on Teaching and Learning. Shared with all students across my current courses regardless of the topic.

After attending the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning and presenting two times, it was good to see the evolution of online to mobile learning in the last four years. On 2009 I presented about blogs and wikis for collaborative learning, and then moved into testing new technologies for management and systems learning. Information overload hit my students and me while we started moving into tablets and smartphones for personal, business, and education.

These technologies waves have been moving up and down and several models have helped us in narrowing  widgets and gadgets in our “Reduce Information Overload” movement. We are in a “learning-to-go” revolution or evolution that is bringing knowledge to our mobile devices. All generations are now attached to a device (or the opposite) that is impacting the way we communicate and gather information.

Eating at Panera Bread with my iPad while writing and posting this note before the afternoon workshop allowed me do a quick visual survey to see who was alone using a device, or eating with another person and….using a device. We are connected and disconnected on a table. I was tempted to take a picture of the table next to me where a couple had been eating and texting for five minutes…

What do you think about public use of these devices? How to take advantage of these time slots to update our social or learning connections at the same time we are enjoying some free offline time? Please share your practices and help others (and me) to optimize our online learning experience without losing our mind, sanity, eyes, and table companions.

Have a great weekend. I will be updating our courses in my “after-the-conference” weekend.

Climbing the knowledge tree

Climbing the knowledge tree (Picture by Prof. Brad Biglow)

Presenting “Extreme Time Management. A Personal Leadership System” at 23rd International Conference on Teaching and Learning, April 2012. Dr. Lepervanche explaining how children in rural Latin America climb a tree with a laptop to find a wi-fi signal.

2009 Tree house online education

Extreme Time Management: Busy People Always Have Time. A Personal Leadership System.

Dr. Jose Lepervanche, Florida State College at Jacksonville.

Extreme Time Management: Busy People Always Have Time.  A Personal Leadership System.

Time is one thing in the world that we cannot change. Information, communications, family, friends, and work overload our time. We fill our day with activities that overwhelm our capacity to handle them. We need extreme time management methods to cope with stress, unproductivity, and procrastination.

Time survivors keep them busy without losing sanity. Busy people always have time to do more. Lazy people always complain about the things they cannot do. Managers select busy people when assembling successful teams.

Personal Leadership System developed by Dr. Lepervanche based on beliefs, values, priorities, lifelong project management, effective delegation, and technology usage to simplify life and work.

(ID #146/Track 1)

Thursday, April 12, 2012, 2:00-2:45 p.m., Heritage C (Macintosh Multimedia room with projector and sound system, but no computer)

@DrLepervanche’s Web Media Lab Timeline. …before e-learning to m-learning and beyond…

2012 webmedialab.org: Widgets and Gadgets: From E-learning to M-learning and Beyond.

Web Media Laboratory

webmedialab.org

Emerging technologies have allowed online learning to add interactive tools to courses. New web, media and mobile applications, or widgets, and new devices, or gadgets, bring innovative resources to the hands of students. Education is moving from e-learning to m-learning and beyond as hybrid methods are also being incorporated to both on-land and online courses.

Dr. Lepervanche’s Web Media Lab (www.webmedialab.org) has been testing these widgets and gadgets applying both Technology Acceptance and Affordability Models to explore real usability beyond courses into real life. Wireless and mobile technologies allow users to be in a virtual office all the time.

(ID #145/Track 2)
Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Heritage C (Macintosh Multimedia room with projector and sound system, but no computer)

CyberChronicles – Logic Programming – YouTube

Logic programming: sequences, decisions, and loops in flow processes.

CyberChronicles – The Americas Information Ramp

Access to online databases and the importance of infrastructure.

Four Ways to Evaluate a Big Decision

Four Ways to Evaluate a Big Decision.

Importance of a simulation in the capstone in supervision management program.

Simulations are used in Capstone in Supervision and Management course to practice teamwork, strategies, and decision making in a controlled fake company. Weekly decisions and results allow team members to improve profits, market share, and other areas of their company.