The Education Apple: episode 3

1. The Cast

• Barrett Mosbacker, Superintendent of Briarwood Christian School
• Tim Townes, Professor and Chair of the Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Department at UAB
• Bill Brazeal, Technical Architect, Technology Specialist and Principle - ezNet Solutions

 

2. Week in Review

• 5 million iPhones sold during first 3 days, 25% increase over iPhone 4S release
• Some expect 50 million phones to be sold during holiday quarter (1/2 million phones produced per day)
• Quick story about getting my iPhone on Friday
• LTE speeds at my house of 30 meg/sec down, 12 meg up
• Larger screen really makes a difference
• Cellphone costs eating into family budget - Avg household’s annual spending on phone services rose to $1,226 in 2011 from $1,110 in 2007 about 10% increase

3. Main segments

    A. Barrett - Benefits and Dangers of Technology Integration into Education
                    What steps are Briarwood taking to enhance benefits and mitigate dangers

• Engaged learners
• Proj.-based learning
• 21st university and work skills

 

    B. Bill - Review of iOS 6 updates

• Apple Maps vs Google Maps fallout

 

• Spoken turn-by-turn navigation has been a free service offered through Google’s Android mobile OS for a few years now. But it was never part of the deal that brought Google’s Maps to iOS. And sources say Apple very much wanted it to be. Requiring iPhone users to look directly at handsets for directions and manually move through each step — while Android users enjoyed native voice-guided instructions — put Apple at a clear disadvantage in the mobile space.
  • 3D is interesting, spoken directions good
• Photostream sharing is nice, set up an album for family
• Phone call - send text message or remind later
• Mail: VIP Inbox
• Camera: Panorama mode is really nice and very easy to use
• Phone number and Apple ID unified - imessage and facetime calls can show up on all iOS and OSX devices (must have iphone cell number on your apple id account information)

    C.Tim - Story about Tim dropping his iPhone down a storm drain and lowering his son David down into the drain by his ankles to retrieve it

4. Apps and Followings (please update your pics below when you have determined what you will
cover)

 

• Barrett - App pick (TextExpander), twitter pick (#officeofedtech)
• Bill - App pick (Flipboard), twitter pick (@eyeoneducation, @edutechintegration)
• Tim - App pick(), twitter pick ()