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STUDENTS!STUDENTS!““Please Turn Your Cell Phones ON”Please Turn Your Cell Phones ON”

Raymond E. HartfieldRaymond E. Hartfield

Kerrville, TexasKerrville, TexasJanuary 23, 2010January 23, 2010

Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers Association of Texas Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers Association of Texas Midwinter Professional Development ConferenceMidwinter Professional Development Conference

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Seriously…Seriously…

Please Turn Your Cell Phones Please Turn Your Cell Phones “ON”!“ON”!


Goals For Today’s Session:Goals For Today’s Session:

Updates on What’s Happening with Mobility Technology That Impacts K-12 Education

Provide an Overview of Uses of Wireless/Mobile Technologies in K-12 Districts and Classrooms

Provide an Opportunity to Ask Questions About the Uses of Wireless/Mobile Technologies in K-12

* * Whether Covered in the Presentation…or NOT!Whether Covered in the Presentation…or NOT!

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Instructional Applications Instructional Applications for Cell Phones & PDAsfor Cell Phones & PDAs


It’s coming!It’s coming!

Mobile Tools and Technology are Driving Innovation

FIRST THERE WAS THE iPOD!FIRST THERE WAS THE iPOD!

“…iPod, the Most Ubiquitous Student Tool and Enables Students to:• Review Lectures on Their Own Time

• Podcasting Opens the Classroom

to Parents and Community

Source: “Top Ten Tech Trends,” TechLearning, January 18, 2009


#1 Mobile Device with Teens Today!#1 Mobile Device with Teens Today!

“75 percent of teens plan on having a mobile phone as long as they live.

40 percent believe a mobile phone is the only phone they'll ever need”. *

* Source: CTIA and Harris Interactive, September 12, 2009

** Pew Survey, 2009

72.6 percent of teens (ages 13-17) own or have access to cell phone.

90.1 percent (high school seniors/college freshman) own or have access to cell phones. **

9 Billion Text Messages Processed in November, 20099 Billion Text Messages Processed in November, 2009


Use Cell Phones for Instruction?Use Cell Phones for Instruction?

• Transformative Change Happening in Education

• Drawing on Student-Based Technology Resources

• 75-90% of Secondary Students Are “Engaged” With Cell Phones or PDAs Socially Everyday

• Most Students are Disconnected from School-Provided Technology Tools When NOT at School

• It is NOT About the “Tool”…It is About “Engagement” and “Motivation”

• Using a Cell Phone May Be a “Motivating” Factor to Engage Disengaged Students


Did you know?Did you know?

Most Cell Phones Have More Computing Power Than Was Available to NASA during the Apollo 11 Space Project!

Most PDAs Has More Computing Power Than Was Available in the Apollo 11 and 13 Missions Combined!


Common Cell Phone and PDA FeaturesCommon Cell Phone and PDA Features

Audio Recorder

Calculator

Calendar

Digital Photo Camera

Digital Video

Global Positioning Systems

Mobile Web Internet Access

mp3 Player

SMS (text-messaging)

Voice

Let’s consider NOT turning this tool “off”…Let’s consider NOT turning this tool “off”…


Appropriate Cell Phone UseAppropriate Cell Phone Use

• Much of 21st Century Business is being Conducted Via Mobile Digital Devices (Cell Phones, PDAs, etc.)

• Students Must Learn How to Use Their Cell Phones Appropriately and Professionally

• Provide “Real-Life” Opportunities to Teach About Copyright, Content Creation, Protection of Privacy and Ethical Use

• Constructive vs. Destructive Uses

• Safety & Etiquette

Developing Digital CitizenshipDeveloping Digital Citizenship


SMS Messages

Send this text message:

78028 to 7XXXX Your Zip Code

466453

FREE!!!FREE!!!

78028 forecast

Movies 78028

Schools 78028

Medical 78028


Extending the School DayExtending the School Day• Students May Allow Some Spare Time to be Used for

Instructional Work Using “Their” Technology

• Would Have Access to “Their” Technology Outside School

• Many Web 2.0 Resources Run on Cell Phones • Free and Readily Available

• Phones Can Connect with Peers• Make, Edit and Publish (Math, Text, Photos and Videos)

http://collaborationnation.wikispaces.com/Pictures+of+Board+--+Poll+Answers+from+Ruby

Set up Team Work Space on:Set up Team Work Space on:

Collaboration Nation WikiSpacesCollaboration Nation WikiSpaces

FREE!!!FREE!!!


Classroom PollingClassroom Polling www.polleverywhere.com/www.polleverywhere.com/

Licensed User

Do we have permission to use this screen shot?


http://www.polleverywhere.com/


It is the Mission of the FCSTAT to It is the Mission of the FCSTAT to cooperate with TEA to encourage cooperate with TEA to encourage

higher standards of teaching in Family higher standards of teaching in Family and Consumer Sciences while and Consumer Sciences while

promoting the interests of teachers in promoting the interests of teachers in this field.this field.

T – TrueT – True

F – FalseF – False

With your cell phones, text either a T (for True) or a F (for False) to this number 256475

Question #1Question #1



True – 99.2%True – 99.2%

False - .8%False - .8%

True

False

Total Responses

2020


Which of the following is Which of the following is NOTNOT one of one of the purposes of the FCSTAT?the purposes of the FCSTAT?

A. A. Promote Solidarity and Harmony of group action within the Promote Solidarity and Harmony of group action within the membershipmembership

B. B. Expand public knowledge of the advantages of FCS Education Expand public knowledge of the advantages of FCS Education

C. C. Create recognition and awards for outstanding group contributions to Create recognition and awards for outstanding group contributions to career & technology educationcareer & technology education

D. D. Support FCSTAT Student Section and the purposes of their Support FCSTAT Student Section and the purposes of their organizationorganization

Text you answer to 256476



A. 2.5%A. 2.5%

B. .5%B. .5%

C. 69.4%C. 69.4%

D. .5%D. .5%

Question #2Question #2ResponsesResponses

Total Responses

2020


Formed in ________, the FCSTAT is the Formed in ________, the FCSTAT is the only professional organization only professional organization

dedicated solely to representing Family dedicated solely to representing Family and Consumer Science Teachers of and Consumer Science Teachers of

Texas.Texas.


Text your answer to 256475


1963 (11) 1963 (11) 55%55%

1969 (1) 1969 (1) 5%5%

Texas (4) Texas (4) 20%20%

Dallas (3) Dallas (3) 15%15%

No Answer (1) No Answer (1) 5% 5%

Question #3Question #3ResponsesResponses

Total Responses

1919


Classroom PollingClassroom Polling

www.polleverywhere.com/www.polleverywhere.com/

Turning Technologies’ (Responseware)Turning Technologies’ (Responseware)

FREE!!!FREE!!!


PodcastingPodcasting

• Using Gabcast, Teacher Creates

Podcast Using Cell Phone • Daily Homework Assignments• Team Assignments• Group Discussions• Etc.

• Parents Download Podcasts to

stay up-to-date on school activities.

• Students Can Record Fluency

Podcasts in Foreign Language Class.

http://www.gabcast.com/

FREE!!!FREE!!!


MathMath

• Circumference– Using camera phone find examples of circles. Compare to

circular objects, measure circumference, diameter, and plot data. Determine “best fit” and produce line whose slope is close to value of Pi.

• Project K-Nect– North Carolina Ninth Grade, At-Risk Students Received Smartphones to Access Math Content Aligned With Teachers’ Lesson Plans & Objectives - Students Have Opportunity to Collaborate With Each Other and Access Tutors

www.projectknect.org/Project%20K-Nect/Home.htmlwww.projectknect.org/Project%20K-Nect/Home.html


ScienceScience

• Create Lab Manual– Using Digital Camera/Video Document a Science Lab Set-Up

• The Power of Observation– Record Lab Observations Using Cell Microphone and Camera

• Scientific Method Goes Mobile– During Fieldwork, Take Photos, Send Text Messages and Record

Audio of Findings to Support Project


EnglishEnglish

• Text Messaging Shakespeare– Using Mobile Technology E-Mail and Text Summaries to Answer Narrative-Framing Questions Based on Key Passages of Richard III.– Using a Simple Weblog, Students Posted Entries Summarizing Most Critical Passage and E-mail and/or Text Message Team.

– Source: Focus on Effectiveness, 2007 Northwest Regional Educational Lab

• A Novel Idea– Read a Novel Downloaded From Websites Such as manybooks.net

http://manybooks.net/http://manybooks.net/

FREE!!!FREE!!!


Mid-Term InnovationsMid-Term Innovations


Emerging Factors Forcing ChangeEmerging Factors Forcing Change

• User-Created, Widely Available Content

• Power and Influence of Social Networking

• Ubiquitous Mobile Technologies

• Cell Phones

• MP3

• PDAs

• Sophistication of Virtual Worlds

• Market Value of 21st Century Skills

• Emerging Forms of Publication

• Educational Power of Gaming

• Continued Globalization

Horizon 2007 Annual Report on Education Technology



• Students between 14 and 28 are Redefining Rules

• Phone Calls to Person, Not Location

• Is Information “Free” or Subject to Intellectual Property

•What are the exceptions?

• Social Operating Systems

• MySpace

• FaceBook

• LinkedIn

• Flickr, Eventful, Twitter, & Eons

A Connected Life, 2008



• Collaboration

• Always-On Connectivity

• RSS – Really Smart Syndication

• Managing 24/7 Access to People and Information

• Students Still Learn in Three Ways

• Seeing

• Hearing

• Doing

• New Technologies Support All Three

A Connected Life, 2008


RealizationsRealizations

“The time is approaching when mobile technologies will be as much a part of education as a book bag.”

- Horizon Report 2007


RealizationsRealizations

“Access is one of the 10 world flatteners. Never before in the history of the planet have so many people—on their own—had the ability to find so much information about so may things and about so many people.”

- Thomas L. Friedman, “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century”


Dr. Daniel PinkDr. Daniel Pink

The schools American children attend today seem indistinguishable from the ones their parents and grandparents attended.

Compulsory mass schooling equipped generations of future factory workers and middle managers with the basic skills and knowledge they needed on the job.

In school, problems almost always are clearly defined, confined to a single discipline, and have one right answer. In the workplace In the workplace problems are usually problems are usually poorly definedpoorly defined, , multi-multi-disciplinarydisciplinary, and , and have several possible have several possible answersanswers, , none of them perfectnone of them perfect. .

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Thank YouThank YouRaymond E. HartfieldRaymond E. HartfieldEducation Industry Solutions Practice ManagerEducation Industry Solutions Practice Manager

[email protected]@att.com512-421-5025512-421-5025


Asset & Vehicle Location & TrackingAsset & Vehicle Location & Tracking

Mobile Resource Management – MRM


Market StatisticsMarket Statistics

• 475,000 Yellow School Buses475,000 Yellow School Buses provide transportation service daily nationwide, Carrying arrying 54.6% of All K-12 Students54.6% of All K-12 Students

• 25 Million25 Million elementary and secondary School ChildrenSchool Children RRide School Buseside School Buses daily throughout the United States, Twice a DayTwice a Day

• School Buses TravelSchool Buses Travel approximately 4.3 Billion 4.3 Billion Miles Each School YearMiles Each School Year across the United States


Main Pain Points of School Bus ManagementMain Pain Points of School Bus Management

• Lower School Budgets and Lower School Budgets and Increasing Fuel PricesIncreasing Fuel Prices are strangling transportation operations

• Lack of Data: Where Buses Where Buses AreAre, during and after hours

• Lack of Control:Lack of Control: Driver’s Habits (safety checks, speed, idle time)

• Lack of Data:Lack of Data: Vehicles, Status, Maintenance, etc.

• Parents ConcernedParents Concerned about Children SafetyChildren Safety and location


Common Components of an Common Components of an Asset/Vehicle Locator SolutionAsset/Vehicle Locator Solution


Different Levels of MonitoringDifferent Levels of Monitoring

• Monitor Vehicle Parameters • Positioning at all times, speed at a given time, idle

time, etc. Capture mileage, fuel levels

• Monitor Vehicle Diagnostics • Real time diagnostic information sent to a back end

application (early warning of a vehicle problems thus reducing vehicle downtime, etc.)

• Monitor Students • Capture and send boarding/exiting of students at

each stop, time/date stamping

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