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The British Computing Society (BCS) has offered ACU the opportunity to use, license, administer and distribute in North America their Digital Creator learning system. BCS is the Chartered Institute for IT in the UK which promotes wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice. In addition to being a credentialing organization they bring together industry, academics, practitioners and government to share knowledge, promote new thinking, inform the design of new curricula, shape public policy and inform the public on information technology.
BCS has recognized that digital media has seeped into almost every aspect of our daily lives, from advertisements, to television programmes, to the music, photos and video we carry on our mobile phones and portable music player. In response to this reality, BCS has developed DigitalCre8or that encourages learners to create real life digital media projects that build into an innovative digital assessment e-portfolio. The syllabus is aligned with the UK National Qualifications Framework and is a nationally-recognised qualification. Digital Creator is ideal for school children or anybody wishing to gain skills in digital media and is a creative and interactive way to learn about the techniques and technologies involved in manipulating these kinds of media.
BCS has asked ACU to consider using DigitalCre8or in its mobile learning program, collaborate on the development of a mobile learning module and become the North American center for DigitalCre8tor distribution and training.
One of the biggest challenges that we are seeing with K-12 institutions planning to deploy an iTouch solution in schools is that they must highly regulate their learners access to the internet and are not able to use cloud resources like Gmail, Google Apps, YouTube and many of the tools that we take for granted in higher education. To successfully deploy a mobile solution K-12 need to replace or replicate the cloud. StudyWiz may be the ideal solution to do just this. It not only provides an email, file management, document sharing and a communication platform it more importantly allows schools to closely control how students access these resources.
The initial demonstration that I viewed at HandHeld 2009 looked very promising but we now need to look at the product much closer and see if we can use it in the College of Education at ACU to help prepare future teachers who may be facing this tool in the field.
Jason Hiner of Tech Republic’s Tech Sanity Check pulls together a wonderful history of links on the speculation over the Apple Tablet. Are we any closer to an Apple Tablet. Was a rumored mass purchase of 10 inch touch screens just that, a rumor, or will we see an Apple Tablet release perhaps in the new year? I won’t speculate but simply point to Hiners article and give you the option to make your own decision.
A history of the elusive Apple tablet, in links…
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