Mr.+Chips

Hello Mr. Chip: Final Group Discussion
In your groups or as an individual, create some predictions regarding what schools might look like within five, ten, or twenty years? Don't be afraid to have some fun with this assignment. Irony, parody and satire are greatly appreciated! Some possible topics are listed below but please feel free to create your own:

1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Future version 2. Graduation Day 2025 3. A Day in the Life of a Teacher in the Future 4. Report Cards and Student Led Parent/Teacher Conferences of the Future 5. Notes from Parents Excusing Absences or Missed Homework in 2025 6. A topic of your group's choice

Choose a format that supports your topic. For example, consider creating this as a Power Point, a podcast, Photostory or a Word document with images.

====**HI Guys- I am writing up here because I am having a hard time adding anything below the table...I have to admit I feel a bit like a fish out of water on this one and am glad you have taken the lead! I will check out the links you gave us and try to figure out everything you are talking about here :) I like your ideas for adding humour too. **====

**Heidi **
Hi everyone,

For this discussion, I thought it might be fun to discuss mobile learning and then create a lesson plan that would support it. I really feel like this is where things are headed.Using something with QR codes might be fun. We just recently did a project using QR codes to explore different historical landmarks in lethbridge. Students were sent out with their mobile devices. QR codes were hidden at each location. When students arrived at the location and found the code, they scanned it with their phones and received information about that landmark as well as a clue to help them find the next landmark. Some other examples for QR codes can be found on the following Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X2AYmcoOkI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRH4ObEtd5A http://www.mobile-barcodes.com (generator) Also check out the attachment for some mobile learning examples and articles.

Anyway. . food for thought.

Sounds like a great idea but can we add some humour? I tried to make an animated video but they wanted me to pay $25.00 to share it. Anybody have any format ideas? Jacyln are you suggesting we do the assignment __on__ QR codes or about them? Brendan

Hi Brendan,

QR codes are just an example. I guess I shouldn't have focused so much on them. I just think they can be so fun and offer so many possibilities. I think we should definitely use humour. What did you make your animated video with? Maybe I can help. I could try recreating it in Flash. Is it the program that you made it in that won't allow you to share it without paying?

I've brainstormed some mobile learning ideas in the following table. These are things that I think will be used more and more in schools as this technology becomes more available. We could do something about the day in the life of a student from 2020. I think there could be a lot of humour in that if we over exaggerate some of the possible side effects of increased digitization- i.e lack of face to face social skills or the ability to read gestures or facial expressions, patience in a world where everything is instant gratification. ..

Might not be able to identify when information is accurate or up to date. ||  ||
 * ML Device || Possibilities || Pros || Cons || Solution ||
 * Smart Phone/Electronic Organizer/Tablet || Capturing Data, processing ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Smart Phone || Capturing/Viewing Video/, taking/sending pictures ||  || FOIP ||   ||
 * Smart Phone/ Lap Top/Tablets || Web 2.0 tools to brainstorm, communicate, collaborate anytime anywhere: i.e Google docs, Mind Meister, I.M, texting, Skype etc. . . ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Smart Phone/ Tablets || Learning Applications: i.e quizzes, on the spot how to videos, flashcards etc . . . ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Smart Phone/Tablets || GPS ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Smart Phone/ Tablets || Access to Internet || Can go beyond what is taught in the classroom. Can research and problem solve from anywhere, anytime || Cheating on assignments and tests.
 * Tablets || Reading/ Research/ Organizing Data ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Smart Phone || Voice recording || can record and revisit lessons, interviews, thoughts etc . . ||  ||   ||
 * Smart Phone || QR Codes- to retrieve additional information on a certain topic. ||  ||   ||   ||

Hi It's Heidi again. I feel like I have been living under a rock - watching these QR code videos! It's really quite amazing and what technology can do. I like these ideas- I wonder how we can make them funny...What is the overall message we are wanting to send? Is it about how learning is going to be more 'mobile' in the future?

I wish we had a bit more time and that we didn't have another assignment due Friday. (!!!)

Maybe I am tired- or maybe I have been spending too much time with preschoolers-or maybe it is the visual learner in me that always needs to connect a concept with some sort of imagery- but this discussion makes me think of two images: the Jetsons and the Flintstones.

Looking at how each civilization uses tools to learn and get things done, we could potentially draw some comic (or visual) inspiration there. The word 'tablets' in Jaclyn's table above initially made me think of stone tablets (like the kind they used thousands of years ago) not electronic tablets. It might sound silly- but if you follow the image- people in the future might view some of the tools we use to learn nowadays and in the recent past (paper, pens, books, chalkboards) in the same way we look at the stone 'tablets' they use in the Flintstones....bulky, slow, inefficient, awkward etc.

Technology in the stone age - see about 1min 40 - 2min 40

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School field trips in the future- see about 1min 30 - 2 min 30

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Heidi

What if we did a front page of a newspaper from the future. Each of us could write a short summary of our article and then compile it to look like an actual Newspaper. TO be funny, we could make the articles like something from the Onion.

I could insert a small picture of a QR code at the bottom of each article suggesting if they click on it, they would be able to access the entire article (of course for this, we wouldn't really need to write the whole thing). A friend of mine from Halifax told me that their newspaper already uses QR codes so if wouldn't be far off.

I don't mind doing the compiling. Brendan, we could even try to insert your video. It could be like a paper from Harry Potter. Anyway- Just a suggestion.

Jackie

HI Jackie- OK. That sounds good to me. What kind of articles do you think we should include? Above you mentioned ideas like "a the day in the life of a student from 2020...and tp over-exaggerate some of the possible side effects of increased digitization- i.e lack of face to face social skills or the ability to read gestures or facial expressions, patience in a world where everything is instant gratification . . ." Those kind of things? I would love to see this video Brendan.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I will be out and about this morning - but will check in this afternoon when my son is in preschool.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Heidi

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ok so this is what I came up with for one article. If we could each write one and then throw a couple pictures in there from creative commons it might work. What do you think? I might have to revisit it. I've been up since 5:00a.m. It's the quietest time in my house with a 3 year old and 10 month old! (The formatting got all wonky when I tried to paste it. It looked better in the word document but I couldn't figure out how to attach files in here. I'm used to PB wiki. There's also supposed to be a QR code at the bottom. )

By the way Heidi- I loved the Flinstones and Jetsons clips!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jackie

Blackout Forces Youth to Interact F2F Sunday, September 12, 2023

“My friends couldn’t tell what I was thinking or how I was feeling!” exclaimed one girl as she described her experience of trying to communicate without her emoticons during the three hour, province wide blackout in South Field, Nova Scotia. At Winston Academy a group of teens were found aimlessly wondering the hallways of their school. “This is when I am supposed to be logged into Social Etiquette 101,” cried one boy in desperation. “What am I supposed to do now?”  The blackout left more than just its youth in a state of panic. Teachers and administrators were left scrambling for alternative methods to deliver their course material. “If it doesn’t click, light up or speak to them, they just aren’t interested,” claimed Bella Thorton a kindergarten teacher from South Field elementary. Even physical education programs came to a halt. One woman reported a group of students running into walls as they attempted to swat actual tennis balls with their Nintendo Wii rackets. The balls were retrieved from the school time capsule of 2010 along with. . . . To access this entire story including video coverage, scan the QR code with your mobile device.



<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jaclyn- 5 am! Wow!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I remember having kids that age! It wasn't that long ago- but my youngest turned 4 yesterday... In many ways it gets easier as they get a little older and they can entertain themselves. Then again- you just get busy driving them to their swimming lessons, dance, gymnastics etc. It's all good... but sure makes it hard to find quiet time to work on assignments!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have to be honest- I am a little unsure what to contribute to this 'newspaper'. Please tell me if I am off -base.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My idea was that I could write an article about futuristic students who had gone on a field trip to a local or national museum where they had seen artifacts on how students used to learn 'back in the olden days'. Students could be interviewed about what they had seen and they could express their awe and disbelief at how primitive the learning tools of the past had been in comparison with what they use now. Is this something along the lines of what you were thinking?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brendan- I am curious about this video you have created.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Heidi

Wow all this stuff is amazing. Cheers Brendan
 * I love the Flintstone vs. Jettson idea. I also think the newspaper is great and given the timeline probably the easiest.
 * My cartoon was about a teacher telling a student what school was like back in her day. They were both on a beach and she was complaining about how they had to actuallt carry their labtops to school (uphill both ways). I used GoAnimate which I got from the web and was really just messing around. At the end they say if you want to share it you need to pay so I didn't complete the transaction.
 * You guys sound very busy with your kids
 * I would love to write an article should we just make a best quess thing or base it on facts?

Here's one, Ill try to get more later (gotta work on Assignment 1)

<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 27pt; line-height: 115%;">Graduate Students Find Lost Society <span style="color: #6c6c6e; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Sunday, September 12, 2023

While attending a field trip to New York City, Mrs. Gibraltures' class, consisting of 12 year old graduate students, came across a lost civilisation living in the now abandoned Central Park. The society, who calls themselves //Twits,// could only communicate with cell-phones. Unfortunately none of the students had such an ancient technology until Mrs. Gibralture unrolled her computer and found a facsimile of one on the Universal Net. Using instant messaging she was able to send a copy to her class, who used their 3-D printers to make several copies and were soon talking to the lost tribe. “It was a fascinating exercise in old English” remarked one of the students. “They mostly spoke in whole sentences,” remarked another. Using the recording devises in their clothing several of the students have posted their experience on their daily blogs or go to Goggle You to see a group HD projection created by the groups’ autonomous daily record site. [] [] Brendan

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hello everyone... there are some awesome ideas coming out of this discussion. 'Twits'- I love it! And speaking in 'Old English'- it reminds me of how my grade tens thought about reading Shakespeare~

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I am sooooooooo not done this other assignment for Friday- but this one is more fun to work on. I will try to write something more concrete later today after my nursery school meeting (Ugh). Here are some of my inspirations for the 'artifacts in the musem' that the students might have seen. ☼ Heidi

Great pictures Hiedi. I suggest we use the backpack one for sure. I agree this assignment is alot more fun I keep skipping back and forth, the other assignment is keeping me up at night. Hope my comments about grammer didn't seem like chiding. I really am terrified of APA. How do you quote a quote and then add a reference arrrgggg stupid handbook.... Cheers Brendan


 * I'm with you on the APA Brendan. I have an editor and formatters at work that usually deal with that stuff. Yuck! I guess it's good practice for me. Anyway, LOVE the //Graduate Students Find Lost Societ//y article. My husband and I laughed at the " They mostly spoke in whole sentences!". Heidi, I think your idea is also great! Thanks for the pictures.** **I'm going to start putting what we have here together.**


 * Jackie**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I agree- the backpack picture is awesome. The kid looks so unhappy. The others aren't really funny- just ideas :)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">APA makes me crazy. I guess it is necessary to have some sort of standard, but all the rules are tedious. And just when you think you have it figured out, they come up with a sixth version! I had a prof who would correct each and every APA error we made...I am talking counting space bars between words.It made me so neurotic about writing papers. Seriously. I am going to have to pull an all nighter, I think.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I will try to have my article written by bedtime tonight. That way I can focus on my other assignment. Anyone heard from Doug?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Heidi

Hello everyone... Ok- so here goes- not sure what you want to call their futuristic handheld devices...I called it a mobile device (MD): I referred to the past as P.C (like B.C. and A.D.) as the 'pre-connected' era. Maybe that's too cheesy. Feel free to edit. Do we need more articles? Heidi - ( see below)

=<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Learning- P.C. =

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">On a recent trip to the Museum of Canadian Civilization in our nation's captial, a number of Grade 11 Canadian History students had an eye-opening experience learning about how people of previous generations went about the business of learning. The students witnessed holographic 3D dioramas of classrooms from the pre-connected era (P.C). They were also able to touch some actual preserved artifacts from these days gone by. When asked to comment on what they had experienced, many students expressed their disbelief that such archaic methods and tools were used - not even that long ago. "I saw this one little girl with this gigantic backpack", exclaimed one student. "I couldn't figure out why a little kid would need to carry such a heavy bag around. She couldn't even stand up straight! I am so glad I have everything I need on this little mobile device (MD) that fits in my pocket". To this, his classmate responded "Yeah, but then we got to see what all these kids put inside their big bags! They were literally filled with a tree's worth of books and paper!". Jim Sutherland, an accompanying teacher, commented on the working conditions of instructors P.C. "It was amazing to me how these teachers worked with so few resources," he noted. " I got to touch these little sticks called "chalk" . I had white dust all over my hands. Apparently the teachers would write things on a board with this stuff, but then when they ran out of space or switched classrooms, they would have to erase it...and it would be gone forever! That seems crazy when now everyone can just access all our lessons and resources on our MD...no fuss, no mess." The most shocking thing to most students was the notion that students of the past worked largely in isolation. "We collaborate with students all over the world in our classes!", said one teen. "How sad that these students couldn't connect with other learners in different cities and countries. Can you imagine learning about world history and other cultures from only the pages in a book?" For more of this story and a virtual tour of The Learning- P.C. exhibit, with student commentary, scan the QR code below with your mobile device.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Good morning. ☼ I am working on a little advertisement to put on our page... for a medicine to help people with first carpometacarpal joint arthritis (a disease that people who text too much can get). Would this be appropriate? I will post it shortly. Heidi

Great post Heidi-sorry I should have told you the grammar posts were on the DB-I think the more articles the better. Here's another: <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 27pt;">Shakespeare Baby, baby <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">. <span style="color: #6c6c6e; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Sunday, September 12, 2023

Students at the Calgary Virtual School of Fine Arts were treated to the Holographic opening of England’s historic Shakespearean Festival today. The performance of //Hamlet,// which starred legendary performer Sir Justin Bieber, was very much appreciated by the students. Sir Bieber, the Scottish dwarf who was knighted by King William for his excellent impersonation of an American teen, was proud to bring an unphotoshopped image to the stage. Several of Sir Bieber’s children were at the following Q and A session and delighted the class with stories of posing as groupies when their Dad was on tour in America.

= Brendan  =

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This is hilarious Brendan!! I LOVE IT! <span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt;">I made a little ad- but not sure how it will format properly in this wiki- I fooled around with the spacing and it kept re-arranging itself once I out it up here. I imagine Jackie will reformat it anyhow when she cuts and pastes this all together. I am not sure why this thing is making boxes all over the place now and moving my images around...but I have spent so much time on this -formatting and reformatting - I am starting to get frustrated!!! I will post the original file on the Discussion board- so you can see how it all looked when it was all nicely formatted. Heidi <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; display: block; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; font-size: 140%; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt;">**Suffering the pain of FCJA?** **<span style="font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">Ask your doctor if **<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">Yadrutas **<span style="font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> ™ is right for you! **

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Great Ad Heidi not sure why it reformats, maybe we need to buy the upgrade? Jaclyn let us know if you need more. Brendan

Hi again- I just posted the (more or less) properly formatted ad as a word file on the discussion board in our group section. It looks much better without all the weird boxes. I also tried to page Doug to see where he is at. Anyone else hear from him? Maybe he decided to go solo on this one. (?) Heidi

This all great!! I think we definitely have enough. I'll link it to the private blog by this afternoon to get your approval. Any suggestions for a Newspaper title?

Well the U of C student newspaper is called the Gauntlet, maybe we could use Gauntlet 2023? Sorry I haven't heard from Doug maybe he'll log on tonight. Hey here's an APA question for you. If you take a quote from a quote in a paper do you reference the quote or the paper? Brendan

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hi Brendan <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Do you mean like citing a secondary source? I think you reference first the original author in the text itself- and then the article you found it in is referenced in the reference page. Whenever possible, I try to find the original source and just quote it directly. Sometimes it isn't possible. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If you need to cite a secondary source, it would look something like this <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For example ( I more or less took this from the Owl APA guide...) ==<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Johnson [ ie: the original author] argued that - insert quote or paraphrase here- (as cited in Smith [ie: the secondary source], 2003, p. 102).== Does that help? Heidi

Thanks Heidi that's more or less how I worked it out. Brendan