uLearning Blog » wireless http://ulearning.edublogs.org News and views on ubiquitous, mobile, connected 21st century learning (mLearning --> uLearning) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:25:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Masters thesis: ‘The Dawn of uLearning’ http://ulearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/15/my-masters-thesis-the-dawn-of-ulearning/ http://ulearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/15/my-masters-thesis-the-dawn-of-ulearning/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:37:26 +0000 jnxyz http://ulearning.edublogs.org/?p=53 ]]> The dawn of uLearning: Jonathan Nalder Masters thesis

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]]> I’m not a fan of Amazon’s Kindle eBook Reader. Not only is it not available in my country, but I feel the days of paying over US$350 for a device that only does one thing are long gone. Having said that, as en educator and former libary worker, I can see several direct eduational applications, especially with the just announced Kindle 2 having the ability to read out its content. Read a detailed overview (via Appleinsider).

Why I’m writing about it however is more because of what the Kindle 2′s other features don’t do – they don’t sync with a PC or laptop. Just as Google’s Android mobile operating system gets all its contact and calendar data directly from the cloud, so too does the Kindle 2 interface via 3G connection only with a home eBook site, or with other Kindle eReaders. This is the future of mobile, wireless devices and why they are leading towards a true ubiquitous, everware future. Even small mobile devices now have the ability to connect wirelessly to all the information etc they need to be fully functioning.

Are education departments setting up such networks to unleash the power of having this kind of computing available 24/7 from any location?

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Not to start any disputes as to which Smartphone is better because several modern platforms are now capable of the feat I’m about to report, but can your phone do this?

Can it: ”Look for files on your remote home or office computer and download those files to your device or e-mail them to a friend or colleague. ’ReachMyFile‘ provides easy, secure, instant access to remote files over cellular (3G, EDGE) and Wi-Fi networks”. In other words, can you browse you home computer and access, download, email etc its files? THIS is what the mobile, wireless, cloud computing, everywhere or ubiquitous computing is all about. Local storage capacity becomes a non-issue with this kind of capability. 
For Education, there a few implications. Firstly, in the coming years it may mean closed, safe school networks can be easily bypassed by students ‘beaming’ in their own files. But secondly, and on a positive note, it means that no assignment or homework can be left at home!

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