Focus on Fieldwork- Opportunities, problems and solutions
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Focus on Fieldwork – Student use, uptake &
feedback#MELSIG
Friday, 15 February 2013
Students who use Smart Devices
• Undergraduate and masters students
• UK, Spain, Italy, USA
• Netbooks, Servers, LiveScribe Pens, iPad2s, BYOD
• Camera, audio, video, GPS
• Dropbox, GPS Log, GeoSpike, Skitch, Splice, browsers
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Netbooks • "Convenient, small device to travel with"
• "Easy to tabulate results and present findings"
• "Able to backup work"
• Resource gathering for presentations
• Used for Internet, ARCGIS, spreadsheets, PDFs
• Disliked software choice - Open Office
• Disliked sharing the devices
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LiveScribe Pens• Easy dictionary tool
• "Made synthesising notes easier"
• "Got key quotes for our presentation by referring back to the pen"
• An inexpensive tool students may decide to purchase for note-taking in lectures or interviews
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General iPad2 Use• Easier data collection and instant
data processing
• "Collating, analysing and presenting data was more convenient and appealing"
• "Easier to use than expected"
• "Really useful for annotating maps and photos"
• "Over the week I got used to using the iPad at every chance and it enhanced my learning and skills"
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Camera, audio & video
• Photographs used as a reflective tool
• Simple to take photos, record audio and display data
• Easy to add data to a video
• Splice was an easy app to create videos with
• Difficult to access camera with Griffin Survivor cases on
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Protecting Technology
• Protected against most accidents
• Weather-protected
• Glare from screen
• Access to camera
• Added weight
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Apps
• Dropbox
• GPS Log, GeoSpike & CityMaps2Go
• PollDaddy
• Skitch & Splice
• Pages, numbers & keynotes
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Tentative Issues
• Risk - dependent on device ownership, location, activity, personal risk
• Web access
• Unfamiliarity
• Need for a back-up plan - light interference, risk, weather, malfunction
• Overuse of technology
• Distraction
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Do students want BYOD?
• Buying their own iPads
• As long as apps were available
• Set up in advance
• Students already using their own devices
• Own device is "easier to handle"
• Limitations/availability of devices
• Distraction - a personalised device
• Risk
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The Future...?
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Brian Whalleyb.whalley@sheffield.ac.uk
Vicky Powellv.powell@chester.ac.uk
Derek France, Chester UniversityJulian Park, Reading University
Alice Mauchline, Reading UniversityKatharine Welsh, Chester University
Tablets as field note books and Personal Learning Environments
An HEA-Funded project
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Personalised learning?in personal learning spaces?
How do we personalise? and in what learning spaces?
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And for learners:
‘Everyone should be able to participate and control their own learning process’
(Knowles, 1987)
How can we use ‘tablet’ computers to help?
We think of pervasive computing as a move from an interaction between an individual and a single device to an abundance of networked mobile and embedded computing devices that individuals and groups use across a variety of tasks and places
(Dryer et al., 1999)
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Learning activity
Specific interaction of learners with otherpeople, using specific tools and resources,oriented towards specific outcomes
LearningOutcomesNew Knowledge, skillsand abilities. Evidence of This and/or artefacts of the learning process
LearningEnvironmentTools, resources, artefacts affordances of the physical and virtual environment for learning
OthersOther people involved and the specific role they play in the interactions, e.g. support, mediate,
change, guide
Identities: preferences, needs motivations. Competencies: skills knowledge, abilities
Roles; Approaches and modes of participating
Learners
An outline for a learning activity, HelenBeetham 2007
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Trip
Team
Personal space
Knowledge
OtherPersonal
space
Educational Spaces
… lab, home, library ….
Student +Computer(desktop,
laptop,‘netbook’)
Student information environmen
Rich Internet Applications
PLE Field
In the field
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Computers in Fieldwork –Lyngen Alps, North Norway, 1984
Apple IIe + HDD + CRT Screen + generator+ people to carry them
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Tabletsas Personal Learning Environments for students (and fieldworkers in general)
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Notebooks in the field
• Can they displace (water-resistant) paper notebooks?
• What basic apps do you need?
• What 'extra' apps can provide
• Can tablets support disabilities - and make things easier in general?
• Can you use tablets anywhere?
• Challenge me, what do you want e-field notebooks to do?
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iPad use and usage….
And it does not have to be internet connected
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Demonstration:textbooks etc
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Demonstration:textbooks etc
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Geologically-useful apps
basemap photographed
by Camera, stored in Photos
exported to Skitch for
annotation(then shared or mailed on)
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Aids to field sketchingAlways a problem with students
Sketching helps observation - photos alone are poor
Apps like Skitch (from Evernote) help observation and scaffold sketching, easily sent to electronic notebook
Easy to make observations and records at different scales (Mike De Freitas’ point)
Easy to share images with studentsadd images from field microscope (Proscope)
Analyse video clips taken with a tablet or smartphone or exterior camera using Coach’s Eye
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Geologically-useful apps
Cameraused for a field
photocan be
exported to a notebook app (Penultimate,
Moleskine,AudioNote,
Gusto,Notability )
BTW, anybody know what the fish is?
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Notebooks with audio
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Geologically-useful apps
Galileo Map + SkitchFriday, 15 February 2013
Geologically-useful apps
Lambert
GeoID
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Geologically-useful apps
Lambert
GeoID
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Geologically-useful appsadd-ons
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Other useful bits
• Add a microphone (‘desk’; lapel/lavalier)
• Add a thermometer (iCelsius)
• Add a (2-3m) GPS (BadElf)
• Camera/video download
• Solar Panel for remote fieldwork
• Display on TV with HDMI or AppleTV
• Extra external memory (Airstash)
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Aiding student accessibility
• Easier note taking
• Voice recognition
• Field prompts (written, voice)
• Sharing data
• Signing
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Disruptive* Devices?Disruptive Technology?Disruptive Innovation?
32‘Disrupting Class - How disruptive innovation will change the way the
world learns’ Christensen, Horn and Curtis, 2011
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Yes, iPads work well in the field
They can be personalised, associated with specific tasks and do the job better than ‘traditional’ notebooks.
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