mobile web 2.0, mobile widgets, microlearning and intertwingularity
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Mobile Web 2.0, Mobile Widgets, Microlearning and Intertwingularity June 2007 Microlearning.org
Ajit Jaokar
www.mobileweb20.futuretext.com [email protected]
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Ajit Jaokar - many hats
Ajit Jaokar
UK based - Hands on Publisher (futuretext) - Author (Mobile Web 2.0) - Chair: Oxford University's Next Gen Mobile Applications panel - Start-up: www.horizonchannel.com - PhD student UCL/UK
Recent and forthcoming talks includeStanford University - MIT SloanWeb 2.0 expo - Ajaxworld - Java oneThe Scoble show - CNN money BBC Digital planet - Oxford University The O Reilly radar. European parliament
Global top 20 wireless bloggerAccording to fierce wireless www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com
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Outline
Web 2.0 Mobile Web 2.0 Learning
Microlearning Widgets
• Emphasis on the 'how'
• A future - not THE future ..
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A blue chair is a chair ..
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A concept cannot exist in isolation. Mobile Web 2.0 must be defined in context of Web 2.0
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What is Web 2.0?
When Basecamp asked 1000 of their customers what Web
2.0 meant to them:
● 13% answered that they didn‘t know what it
was
● 87% who answered yes on the question, nearly
everybody came up with a different description
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In good company!
Tim Berners Lee: nobody even knows what it means
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Hype from media ..
● Power is moving away from the old elite(Rupert Murdoch, CEO NewsCorp.)
● Our industry is facing a profound challenge from home-made content (Tom Glocer, CEO Reuters)
Source: Arthur D. Little
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Not a formula !
Soft concepts are more difficult to explain. Not a formula or an equation!!
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What is Web 2.0: Of elephants and blind men
Like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, many see only one aspect of Web 2.0, but miss the big picture
Image source: http://www.wordfocus.com/word-act-blindmen.html
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Web 2.0
Web as a platform
Harnessing collective intelligence
Consumption v.s. participation (user generated content)
Pushing content out: consuming content away from its source RSS, mashup, Widgets
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Its not a 'Web' of mainframes!
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/roger.broughton/firmware/mainframe.htm
Web as a platform: The Web / Open standards is the only true global unifying force - you can't build a 'Web' out of mainframes - powerful as they are!
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Web 2.0 : Unifying theory of Web 2.0
Harnessing Collective Intelligence: Now becomes the 'main' principle.
Think page rank:
Global, Web based, Billions of individual contributions (information about web pages), Algorithm, Derived information commercially valuable
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The resurgence of mobile browsing
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3B mobile subscribers
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Mobile : Now a first class citizen of the web
Globally, at end of 2005, there
were 2.1 billion mobile
phones vs. 1.0 billion Internet
users.
Even amongst those one
billion Internet users,
over 200 million of them
accessed the Internet
via a mobile phone (mostly in
Japan, China and South
Korea).
Mobile is now a first class citizen of the Web. More so, with Web 2.0 (Mobile Web 2.0)
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What does it all mean?
We now say that, Mobile web 2.0 extends the principle of ‘harnessing collective intelligence’ to mobile devices
This seemingly simple idea of extending Web 2.0 to Mobile devices raises many questions, for example:
a) What are the implications of extending the Web to mobile devices? b) As devices become creators and not mere consumers of information, What categories of intelligence can be captured/harnessed from restricted devices? c) What is the impact for services as devices start using the Web as a massive information repository and the PC as a local cache where services can be configured?
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What does it all mean?
When we extend this definition to ‘Mobile Web 2.0’ – there are two implications :
a) The Web does not necessarily extend to mobile devices
b) Even though the Web does not extend to mobile devices, intelligence can still be captured from mobile devices.
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Capturing Mobile intelligence
• Capturing intelligence at the point
of inspiration
• Tagging
• Unique data elements like location
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Harnessing collective intelligence: Mobile devices
(b) The web backbone – but not necessarily web protocols end to end
(c) The PC: Selecting and configuring the service
Mobile Web 2.0: Harnessing collective intelligence through restricted devices
(a) – harnessing collective intelligence
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Not ringtones etc (packaged content)!
Mobile Web 2.0 != Packaged content (ringtones)
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Good news and the bad news ..
The good news is: There are more people with phones than PCs
The bad news is: These phones have nothing in common except voice and SMS
There are limitations to what you can do with voice and SMS
The Web and specifically Widgets could be the common element
That has implications for Microlearning
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We live in a Widget Widget Web
I believe we are living in a Widget Widget Web i.e. the Web as we know it has fragmented into a million pieces (Widgets) and these Widgets are being assembled into new, as yet undefined services.
The concept of Widgets lends itself to the ideas of Microlearning very well.Widgets (both Web and Mobile) are ideally poised to exploit Microcontent and Microlearning – especially because they use open standards.
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Mac Dashboard ..
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Mac Dashboard ..
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Mac Dashboard ..
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/
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Mobile Widgets - Web - Mobile bridge
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Mobile Widgets - Nokia ..
S60 Web run timeWeb standards - no Java, no flash Mobile Ajax + s60 web runtime
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Mobile Widgets ..
• Using same code on mobile and desktop
• media type=handheld stylesheet
• The Web standards pay a key part
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Widgets ..
What is a widget?
What is a widget made of(technically) - Javascipt, Ajax
What is a mobile widget?
Whats needed for a mobile widget? - Web
Who is supporting widgets and mobile widgets?Web / desktop widgets: Apple, Google, Microsoft, netvibes, YahooMobile widgets: Opera, Nokia, Apple?
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Microlearning
Wikipedia definition: • Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities.
Conference definition:• Microlearning is what people are doing, knowingly or not, when they face the challenge to find new informationand build new knowledge in networked digital media environments.
• With e-mails, mobile phones, Google and the Web 2.0, they have to deal with small chunks of microcontent, loosely joined, permanently changing, re-arranging and circulating.
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Microlearning
• We will have to find new mental and learning strategies, by analyzing and putting further the practices and behaviours new disruptive technologies are bringing with them.
• Microlearning is a catchphrase bundling a number of new technologies und applications relevant fore-learning, whose common denominator is the processing of digital microcontent.
• They tend towards dissolving the more static and macro-sized structures that have dominated our education and learning systems so far.
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Intertwingularity
Intertwingularity is a term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge. (also created the word hypertext)
Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged, people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can’t. Everything is deeply intertwingled.
With a fragmented Web (and subsequently reused content away from its source) via Widgets, we see the fulfilment of Intertwingularity vision
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Hierarchy is the opposite of a network ..
Hierarchy is the opposite of a network. As networks emerge (the Internet, MySpace, facebook) - hierarchies break down. With fragmentation (widgets), comes aggregation (through a network). With a fragmented Web (and subsequently reused content away from its source) via Widgets, we see the fulfilment of Intertwingularity vision
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Microlearning
e-learning – replicated the classroomTraditionally e-learning modelled existing class room environments. They did not the use the Web and Mobile Web as it is truly intended.
microlearning is much more natural because:Creative - fun - network oriented - the minds of the young are adapted to learning in that way - suited to their attention span - conflicting perspectives (critical thought) - Long tail education, education for the disenfranchised
Tap into the collaborative, conversational exchanges in which today's students have become so fluent outside class are the best way to deliver learning inside it.(source: Wired)
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Microlearning
Both school level and higher ed.
Some schools ban MySpace, Facebook etc. Others are incorporating it as part of their curicullum
Personal learning environments -- mashup spaces comprising del.icio.us feeds, blog posts, podcast widgets -- whatever resources students need to document, consume or communicate their learning across disciplines.
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Microlearning
The widget model is attractive because of ease of development. Most widgets can be created with a few images using from less than ten to several hundred lines of XML/JavaScript/VBScript, depending on their complexity.
screensavers, quizzes, flashcards, word of the day – in a networked environment spanning the Web and the Mobile Web
Microlearning characteristics : short time, small content, complement curriculum, create into an ongoing process, informal, collaborative
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Conclusions ..
A holistic trend, not in isolation (networks, widgets, mobile)
Extension of the continuous connectivity (esp. for kids)
A wider socio economic impact – rise of networks, break down of hierarchies, Open standards go together
Web 2.0 – pushing content out – leads naturally to microcontent
Microcontent, microlearning and widgets go together
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Conclusions ..
Web is the unifier
Mobile is a strong driver
Network (community) is the enabler
Widgets is the mechanism – especially within a network spanning the Web and the Mobile Web
Widgets are suited to small chunks of information
We already use them on the Web
We will be using them on the Mobile Web
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Sources ..
http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/04/myspaceforschool http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2007/06/16/nature_goes_bot....html http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2006/06/adults-and-myspace.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_engine"http://www.pavingways.com/mobile-widgets-the-ubiquitous-mobile-web_84.html http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384338/index.htm?postversion=2006091105 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_widget
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