3rd Prize to Innovative Ideas for Apps in Mobile Environments

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The UAM-Telefónica Chair is carrying out its 3d edition of the Prize to Innovation in Mobile Environments. This year, the focus will be on apps.

Language: 

Spanish

Submission:

Submit ideas within 4 pages max, in Spanish and with no need to describe the technical process to develop the app. 

Participants can submit more than a project, but it's important to submit each project separately.

Deadline:

31^st of January 2013

Themes:

Any theme.

Who:

Students, researchers and PYMES as well. The apps described in the proposals should be able to use Telefónica mobile networks.

Level (students):

Vocational Education: Higher Education.

Prizes:

There will be 3 prizes, the first of them of 10.000 euros. 

Note: There is a real chance that the company wants to develop your idea, and you will always preserve your copyright.

Read more here

http://cdn5.inov8-ed.com/

Some personal ideas:

As app creators you should invest in quality ideas of apps of course. But you really know that Mobile learning is on the top in a lot of schools. So, don't forget the educational apps and the peadogogical quality.  Play, formative feedback, identity, narrative, activity, are not only the same things that make for a good app but also a good learning environment.

It's not vital for the prize but as an educator, I would like that you think about.

Those who are innovative and creating new apps that could extend children's learning and development will be important mediators in education.  

Mobiles are not only another platform but also come with a whole cool set of new interfaces and approaches in education.

"We could see little apps allowing students to operate in areas where they don’t have expertise as long as they have the technology literacy, augmenting not only knowledge but ability."

David J. Gagnon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

G-Souto

04.01.2013

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References:

UNESCO Chair in e-Learning | Academic Blog

http://unescochair-elearning.uoc.edu/blog/2012/12/28/3rd-prize-to-innovative-ideas-for-apps-in-mobile-environments/

Schools & IT : Olive, a film about loneliness : some values

Olive 

 Patrick Gilles & Hooman Khali, 2011

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Olive is the very first full length feature film shot 100% on a cellphone. The crew shot the film with a smartphone mounted to a modified 35-mm lens, to achieve a shallow depth of field. 

It’s crazy how far cellphone camera technology has advanced!

Olive follows the story of a little girl that transforms the lives of three people without speaking one word.

The film boasts the involvement of the two time Oscar Academy Award nominated 81 year old actress Gena Rowlands (The Notebook, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria).

Olive

 Patrick Gilles & Hooman Khalili, 2011

https://www.imdb.com/

• Synopsis:

The film is about a little girl that goes into the lives of three people — an old lonely woman, a foreigner having a hard time acclimating in the United States, and an obese man — and transforms their lives without saying one word!

A mysterious child with magical powers and a great secret, invades the lives of three lonely people who learn to embrace life once again.

Olive

 Patrick Gilles & Hooman Khalili, 2011

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Olive is the first full-length feature film shot entirely on a cell phone, a Nokia N8 smartphone. 

“Technology is moving so quickly and cellphones are really going to be the thing that does everything eventually,” director Hooman Khalili told AFP in an interview ahead of the US theater release of his movie on December 16, 2011.

Set for release in Los Angeles next week, the movie is eligible to be nominated for the Oscars in February.

“I thought, how great would it be to have a central character that doesn't speak but you understand everything she is trying to communicate,”

 Hooman Khalili (director)

Olive

 Patrick Gilles & Hooman Khalili, 2011

https://www.imdb.com/

Education:

It's Christmas time! So many old people are alone on December and festive season.

Olive could be an interesting motivation to introduce the importance of values such as loneliness in old age, in school education. Here we can explore solidarity:

Values:

• Sometimes, young people cross old people who have problems about loneliness. It's not so difficult to help old people with a word or a smile and give some 'sunshine' into their lives with a single gesture.

• Every Christmas season, when December begins, my students and I had activities of solidarity included and developed in Languages curriculum.

I do remember, two years ago, I proposed different activities. I included some subjects into school curriculum. My students chose the activity. There were two or three, but the students chose to write Christmas cards and send them by mail to three elderly homes.

The old people in those elderly homes (women and men) were so touched that some of them answered to my students telling how lonely they were feeling and the joy of receiving a card from somebody for the first time in years.

So, after Christmas season, we decided to visit the elderly homes to meet those old people ! They were so touched and it was a good experience to students. They felt very happy about their activity.

“Every single one of us at one time of our lives is down in a ditch… The way you get out of that ditch is by having someone reach you with their hand and pull you out,” 

Hooman Khalili

G-Souto

16.12.2011

updated 03.09,2022

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