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=Activity Three Page: SUE=

**TOPIC: Ubiquitous viral collaboration and communication using mobile devices: Teaching and learning with mobile devices and social networking and their impact on current events.**
=**TASKS**:=

Part A: We invite you to click on the link below to access a 10 question survey in order to collate results on how mobile and ubiquitous our student group appears to be. Please ensure this is completed by the 19th of September to enable publishing of the results which are needed to assist you in responding to the discussion questions in Part B of this task. []
 * __Task 1: How mobile and ubiqutious are we?__**

Part B; Read the following brief article by David Gagnon and respond to the following discussion questions. Gagnon, D.J. (2010). Mobile Learning Environments. //Education Quarterly Magazine.// 33, (3). Retrieved from: []

Gagnon refers to mobile as 'the most ubiquitous communications technology on the planet". He states that "as ubiquitous access to information continues to shift toward personal mobile devices, more and more of the learning that takes place may be happening outside of the classroom and in the context of a backyard conversation, a walk through campus, or a Taquería in New Mexico".

//Discussion Question:// //Our survey results will be published in Task 1's forum after the survey closes on the 19th of September and will assist in exposing the mobile ubiquity of our student group on this course. In light of the survey results do you consider that in general our group appears to be users of// //'the most ubiquitous communications technology on the planet" as described by Gagnon in respect to mobile learning?// //Illustrate your reasons why or why not.// //Also what do you think of the statements made by Gagnon (2010) as detailed above? Is his vision possible in your teaching and learning context?//


 * __Task 2 - Edmodo SNS/Mobile Access__**

Edmodo is a social networking application for teaching and learning accessible online and from any mobile device via free smart phone applications. Watch the two videos that appear on this webpage to learn about the capabilities of Edmodo []

//Discussion Question 1:// //Leading on from Nick's activity around the use of IPads in schools, and in relation to the use of SNS such as Edmodo potentially integrated with mobile access, one can question the issue of equitable access. How fair and equitable would it be for students if the teacher was to initiate the mobile capabilities of Edmodo in his/her teaching and learning practice?// //Discussion Question 2:// //Is it possible that "ubiquitous procrastination" may occur// //in the use of Edmodo with the mobility and ubiquity the application affords? For example students may not pay attention in class as "I can read it all later" and then once home "I can read it/do it all tomorrow" - such procrastination resulting in cognitive overload as there becomes in the end too much to do?//


 * __Task 3 -Mobile ubiquity, virtual reality and online communication and collaboration gone mad? Lets pause, breathe and think.__**

The following video and newspaper articles illustrate the use of mobile devices and applications with regards to the London Riots and Egyptian uprising, to educate, communicate and collaborate in what appears to be an informal, teacherless, virtual, mobile classroom. One questions - is this mobile ubiquity, virtual reality and online communication gone mad? In the heat of the moment we see uploading of uncensored graphic videos fed by emotion, instant upload of raw twitter messages, viral messages that incite people to riot. Where do ethical considerations lie here - is it the responsibility of anyone be they device supplier, application developer, connectivity carrier or user? How ethical is mobile computing when rapid technology such as this can be used to proliferate violent events such as riots and uprisings or is the mobility and ubiquity ethical in that it assists the participants to fight for freedom?

After watching the videos and viewing the newspaper articles, **join this debate by clicking on the link below** to present your argument as questioned above with regards to ethical considerations. You will be prompted to set yourself up with a user name and password when you click on this link or to log in if you have used Create Debate before. []

London Riots [] []

Egyptian Uprising [] The reason for this article is not for you to read the whole thing but for you to take note of the varying social media and mobile devices that were possibly used here to educate collaborators - mobile cameras used to film uncensored graphic videos, smartphones to take part in live twitter feeds, blogging possibly via mobile device be it iPad or whatever.