BYOD and cross-platform tools for learning
Ah... Sunday mornings. The perfect time to take people to task for tweets they're making to other people. Thankfully, my interlocutors (Fraser Speirs and Dave Major) were very accommodating. :-)
- So first of all Fraser was having a conversation with Jaye Hill and sent out the following tweets:
@JayeRHill Or is “going on the web” all we will ever be able to do? Limiting as the world goes mobile and moves away from the raw web.- @JayeRHill Big question with BYOD is who will do the technical integration over disparate hw/sw platforms….
- @JayeRHill The edu problem with BYOD is that you can never progress beyond basic common capabilities unless you specify the device.
- @JayeRHill Merely going on the web is weak sauce today but “bring any device” will lock that in as the best we can ever do.
- I decided to jump in, as the web as 'weak sauce' kind of grated:
. @fraserspeirs "Merely going on the web is weak sauce today". Wow. How wrong you are.- He didn't bite, but then tweeted the following:
- @JayeRHill The world is moving towards vertically integrated hw/sw and services. Multi-platform requirements will be a boat anchor.
- This did actually make me laugh:
- Actually laughing out loud at @fraserspeirs' Apple kool-aid comments this morning.
- Fraser then decided to engage:
- I pointed out Firefox OS and web-native apps:
- And we're off!
- @fraserspeirs Don't mind if you think Apple is the best thing since sliced bread, but to say "the world is going towards..." is disingenuous
- @dajbelshaw Not really. Google and Microsoft (the only other mobile players) are integrating: Goog/Moto/GApps; Win8/Surface/365.
- @dajbelshaw Are you interpreting my comment as “the world is moving to Apple”? That’s not what I meant.
- @fraserspeirs Fair enough. But I don't think it's inevitable that nascent moves into verticals will last. Therefore BYOD = #win.
- Dave Major 'overheard' our conversation and joined in:
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- Andy MurdenPersonally I can see both sides. I think its hard enough to set up and support one 'platform' and to convince stakeholders to buy in you need to have concrete...more2012-09-28T09:28:47.707Z
- Andy MurdenPersonally I can see both sides. I think its hard enough to set up and support one 'platform' and to convince stakeholders to buy in you need to have concrete...Personally I can see both sides. I think its hard enough to set up and support one 'platform' and to convince stakeholders to buy in you need to have concrete outcomes. Most educators are still at the point where they plan a learning activity hopefully based on learning outcomes, and then determine what resources they will use to support this. Therefore they need to be familiar with a set of tools, and expecting them to be aware of what is available across a range of platforms is unreasonable. But as schools become more confident about 1:1 access, and see the opportunities for learners to determine their own learning pathways they will start to move towards more open systems. IMHO the Apple ecosystem is currently the easiest to implement in a school, and this is an important consideration.more2012-09-28T09:28:47.707Z
