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Less is More M-Learning with Cell Phones Lucy Haagen, Program in Education CIT Showcase April 24, 2009

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Less is More. M-Learning with Cell Phones. Lucy Haagen, Program in Education C IT Showcase Apr i l 24, 2009. Today’s Workshop. Introduction to M-Learning with Mobile Phones: Rationale and Resources Mobile Phones and Civic Engagement: Local and Global Examples - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Less is MoreM-Learning with Cell Phones

Lucy Haagen, Program in Education

CIT Showcase April 24, 2009

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Today’s Workshop

Introduction to M-Learning with Mobile Phones: Rationale and Resources

Mobile Phones and Civic Engagement:

Local and Global Examples From Margin to Mainstream: Future

Possibilities

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What is M-Learning?

Use of mobile devices to produce an anytime, anywhere learning experience

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M-Learning in Context

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Why Mobile Phones? Ubiquitous Web 2.0 compatible Platform of choice for under 30s Compatibility Portability Eco-friendly Promotes multiple modes of interaction

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Rationale and Resources (USA) Horizon Report (

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report.pdf) “New interfaces, the ability to run third-party

applications, and location-awareness have all come to the mobile device in the past year, making it an ever more versatile tool that can be easily adapted to a host of tasks for learning, productivity, and social networking.”

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Mobile Phone Use Explosion

Source: lTU World Communications Database, 2009

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China: Mobile Phone Use Outstrips Web Use (000’S)

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Millennials Use of Cell Phones

SMS text messaging outstrips phone calls

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Source: Harris interactive, January, 2009

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What functions do you currently use?

Phone Call SMS                 Email Web Browsing Camera for images Camera for video Voice recorder Video player Text Reader Music/Audio Player Games

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Free/Affordable Mobile Phone Applications Polling (ex: polleverywhere.com) Google Maps Speaking Dictionaries China2go Adobe Reader MP3 file translator Gcast (podcasting) Jott (audio to print memo) Free SMS Messaging Twitter!

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Mobile Phones and Civic Engagement: Southern High School, Durham NCSpring, 2008

Service Learning Seminar: Teaching ESL

Ranked bottom 10 percent of NC High Schools

End of Course Test Passage Rate for LEP (Limited English Proficient): 16.7 percent

Cooperating English and World History Teachers

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M-Learning Goals

1. Increase oral presentation skills

2. Write personal essay

3. Research world-historical figure (One of history’s “troublemakers”)

4. Develop multimedia Powerpoint Presentation

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Project Activities Voice Message Board: Duke Student Response “Ask an Expert” link between Southern students

and Duke professors Old Fashioned “Call your Coach” link between

Southern Students and Duke learning coaches. Voice Recording: Audio Narration Podcasting: This I Believe (Sample Podcast) Incentives: Extra Cellphone Minutes for

productivity

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What Didn’t Work

Southern Students and Duke Students did not talk by phone

Southern Students did not make productive use of phones outside of school

Incentives didn't work as motivators

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What Did Work

Audio Recording Ask the Expert Message Board Personalized Podcasting Project-Based Learning in Small Groups Team-Teaching

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Indicators of Success

Project Completion Rate Student Attendance During Project Period LEP Student Test Results (16.7 percent to

30.1 percent passage rate) Student and Teacher Satisfaction

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Mobile Phones and Civic EngagementNorth Vietnam Summer, 2008

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Mobile Applications and Purposes

Maximize Mobility and Safety of Students in Foreign Environment

Group Text Messaging Free English-Vietnamese

Dictionary Photo Images of Key

Locations Photo Log of Students

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Community Building & Documentation

Audio Diaries

Photo-journalism

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SMS PoetryWhen I vIsted the orphanage,

I went with balloons, hard candies,

Old National Geographics

The children grabbed for everything.

I gave one a candy, others screamed

Until seven or eight were clawing at my legs.

They popped the balloons,

Choked on the candies

Shredded the magazines

I looked over to the nun for help.

She stopped ladling gruel into the communal trough

“Next time, if you come,

Bring enough for everyone, or bring nothing.”

Wendy Wilder Larson

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Direct Service Oral English

Assessment

Electronic Alphabet Book

Personal Audio Dictionary

Literacy through Photography

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Project Documentaton

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In the Works

M’Ubuntu: Mobile

Phones Empowering

Primary School Teachers

to Address South Africa’s

Literacy Crisis

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Mobile Phones in Your Course

Share a specific example of how you could use of mobile phones in one of your own courses or projects. Be sure that the mobile phone is not a just a possible technology but actually a preferable one.

Course …..Application/Feature…..Purpose Try calling and leaving your suggestions

through SayNow: 919-521-4775