Open questions and ToI

Open questions

In the scenario depicted in the introduction many questions arise and wait for answers and solutions, among them:
• How the way of learning has changed, is changing and will change because of the smart city, and in particular what are the literacy and competences people need to learn in order to live in a smart city environment ?
• Through which educational technology supported path will everyone, and especially youths, become “participatorly” aware learners and citizens of the future smart cities ?
• How will we learn from the open books that are represented by cities of art, parks, agro-tech and industrial/productive districts ?
• How will data flowing from sensorised areas and personal devices will be elaborated to support awareness and continuous learning?
• How will our behaviour be influenced by knowledge of co-evolution mechanisms and limits of the ecosystems?
• Would 'smart cities learning' help to reinforce social inclusion and a common sense of belonging ?
• and last but not least, how all this may depend on the characteristics of the environment and how much room there will be for personalization and contextualization ? Will the educational infrastructure be smart enough to readjust, even “autopoietically”, to satisfy the needs and support the expectations that everyone could develop life long, in different contexts?

Topics of interest

Smart City Learning @ ICALT2013 is looking for contributions that describe, explain or envision:

• Technological Ecosystems supporting learning within and from the 'smart cities' (toward 'web-mobile-internet of thing' integrated environments)
• Educational Ecosystems: from ''intelligence' to life-long autopoietic education (re-skill & edupoiesis)
• Ubiquitous serious games for Smart City Learning
• Future 'smart cities' learning scenarios (contexts and methods for the citizens of the future)
• Ecological monitoring and visualization of flows, behaviors, experience's styles and  'smart cities' learning (analytics and visualization)
Privacy and security for learning in ubiquitous environment (safe environments and fluxes)
Unique models for ‘smart cities’ and learning suited to developing countries
• Ubiquitous personalization and contextualization, glocalities, identities (cultural effect and inclusion)
Any other topic meaningful to Smart City Learning