Post on 28-Jul-2015
‘Paper Under Glass’: is this the book of the future?
Dr. Kevin Burden: Reader in Digital Education, The University of Hull, UK
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/check-contrasting-pics-st-peter-square-article-1.1288700
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/check-contrasting-pics-st-peter-square-article-1.1288700
The e-Book: an Oxymoron?
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What will the term ‘book’ mean in the future?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk
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Fixed PC Laptop Tablet Smartphone
Ownership of technologies (Hull University pre-service teachers )
2013-14 2014-15
OutputsA European Mobile Learning Network for Teacher Educators
- O S C A R W I L D E
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
- O S C A R W I L D E ( A L M O S T ! )
“If one cannot enjoy creating a book over and over again, there is no use in creating it at all.”
- O S C A R W I L D E ( A B I T ! )
“If one cannot enjoy interacting with a book over and over again, there is no use in interacting at all.”
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Traditional authoring model
AActive Constructive
Passive Consumption
Gate-keepers
The death of the book
Hundreds of years of loyal service, and this is how you repay us?
Replacing us with Kindles and iPads???
‘paper under glass’
Matt Macinnis (CEO)
“ We need to stop thinking about the future of publishing and think instead about the future of reading…” and writing
Clive Thompson (Journalist)
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2018
The book is not dead (yet!)
Up 2.4% in 2014 (Nielsen BookScan)
2012: horribilis Annus for print
Nielsen BookScan 2014
HP study San Jose State University 2014
Reading preferences
What do readers most like about textbooks?
HP study San Jose State University 2014
What do readers most like about e-Books?
HP study San Jose State University 2014
“The printing press, the computer, and television are not therefore simply
machines which convey information. They are metaphors through which we
conceptualize reality in one way or another. They will classify the world
for us, sequence it, frame it, enlarge it, reduce it, argue a case for what it is like. Through these media metaphors,
we do not see the world as it is. We see it as our coding systems are. Such
is the power of the form of information”
Neil Postman
Project Gutenberg
Michael Hart
‘Replicator Technology’
The Kindle Reader (2007) ‘paper under glass’?
Looking backwards to the future…
Medieval readers could have a kind of power over the texts they read unknown to their modern counterparts … [I]n a culture in which print does not confer authority, any reader’s marginal jottings, or extended commentary, at least have the potential to be incorporated into the text the next time it is copied. The distinction between reading and writing cannot have been as clear as it seems to us; any reader could become a writer simply by writing.
(Struges, 1991, p.3)
Rubrics
Dominican Missal, c. 1240, with rubrics in red (Historical Museum of Lausanne)
Glosses
Illuminations
Non-sequential reading habits
Nicholas Carr
An interactive environment
Medieval and Print Based Traditions
Medieval codex (pre-print) Print based books
iterative finalised
multi-authored single author
collaborative space inviolate space
multimodal predominantly text
non-linear narrative single narrative
active contsruction by reader passive consumption by reader
high paratextual content high textual content
socially constructed and interpreted single view imposed on reader
The book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek
Signposts to the future book
Agency Customisation
Personalisation
Conversation
Data-sharing
Collaboration
Situatedness
Contextualisation
Authenticity
A pedagogical framework for mobile learning
Kearney, M., Schuck, S., Burden, K., & Aubusson, P. (2012) Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective,
Research in Learning Technology Vol. 20, 2012
Collaborative writing
Non-linear ‘reading’
The Institute for the Future of Books
Non-linearity and choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxLpMMzXVCk
Social reading
Personalised, adaptive books
Interactive books
Context sensitive books(Device6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1vlWWnESf0
Situated (‘The Walk’)
Situated (‘The Walk’)
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Hybrid books: A bridge between paper books and the digital world?
Hybrid books
Interactive print - LAYAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi80g9WJvmw
Learner Generated Books
Apps for building books
Learner Generated BooksApps for building books
Schools reinventing themselves as ‘knowledge building communities’
Schools reinventing themselves as ‘knowledge building communities’
Affordances and characteristics of the book of the future» highly contextualised reading experience
» highly customised reading experience with personalised ‘narrative trajectories’
» highly social reading experiences
» permeable boundaries between authors and readers
» unbounded - a frame rather than an artefact
Print books
Author Publisher Reader
Author Reader Scribes Reader Scribes Reader Scribes Reader
A shifting editorial continuum
Inception
Publication
Publication
Publication
Publication
Medieval codex
The Book of the Future???
Personal Collaborative
Static Dynamic
Knowledge Skills
Collecting data Creating and sharing data
Teacher centered Student centered Learner centered
Feature Pedagogical implication
Multimodal (many elements) Multiple literacies
Expandable/easy to up-date Developed not writteniterative learning
Dynamic feedback Individual learning pathways
Portable Transcends physical space
Collaborative & social Rubrics for group assessments
Intelligent (‘Big Data’) Personalised learning
Augmentable Differentiation
Easy to author Authority and Power:Who is the ‘expert’
Authentic audience Motivational and demanding
www.mttep.eu
And finally….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwAuTbx3xKE
Q U E S T I O N S ?
Dr. Kevin Burden Reader in Digital Education The Faculty of Education The University of Hull, UK k.j.burden@hull.ac.uk Twitter: @edskjb