M-Learning
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M-Learning Paula Williams Jo Kay
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M-Learning. Jo Kay. Paula Williams. Mobile Technology in Education. Getting the message across ANYWHERE, ANYTIME …. INTRODUCTION. Topics:. What is mobile learning? How is it currently being used in education ? What tools are classified as mobile learning? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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M-Learning
Paula WilliamsJo Kay
Mobile Technology in Education
Getting the message across ANYWHERE, ANYTIME…
INTRODUCTION
• What is mobile learning?• How is it currently being used in education?• What tools are classified as mobile learning?• How to embed mTechnology into my current
teaching practice?• Implementing mLearning with Web 2.0
applications for anywhere, anytime learning
Topics:
What is mlearning ?
‘Mobile’ means portable and personal. eg mobile phone.
What are the new mobile technologies, and why are they relevant to learning ?
PDAS, Mobile phones, wireless laptops, ebeams,
Webinars, GPS, RFID’s etc.
Many of these tools exist within connected spaces and now have the ability to integrate with social software applications such as blogs and wikis and web2.0 services eg. Podcasts and vodcasts, that can be syndicated to personal spaces .
Mlearning can be broadly categorised
Personal vs Shared and Portable vs Static
Eg: Moblogging, blogs and wikis/folksonomies (flikr)
Syndicating with RSS feeds and itunes
This session we will do a simple ‘Practical Task’
• Moblogging
Participants will send or moblog image files and audio files to the SI blog site
Go to http://time2learn.wikispaces.com
Revisit those Teaching Theories….
Constructivism, Behaviourism, Situated, Collaborative and Now there ‘s Connectivism!
Start to Re think about:
• New practices against existing theories and see how many examples of mobile technology you could apply in each of these theories
• How are learning theories impacted when knowledge is no longer acquired in the linear manner?
• What adjustments need to be made with today’s learning theories when technologies performs many of the cognitive operations previously performed by learners (information storage and retrieval)?
• How can we as educators continue to stay current in a rapidly evolving information ecology?
1. Development of ePortfolios ?
• The use of Web 2.0 services to produce evidence-based assessment for continuing formal and informal learning in the workplace
What are the implications for learners, teachers and curriculum developers
There has been small pockets of innovation across TAFE state-wide and nationally where mobile technology delivery has been implemented in VET. However, for these implementations to be successful educators must be AWARE of some of these following issues:
1. Context – contextual info used and re-mashed content in the read, write, web scenario can conflict with anonymity and privacy
2. Mobility – the linking outside of the class to activities could lend to irrelevance to the course learning outcomes as a form of ‘escapee’
3. Learning over time- Industry based-learning needs good retrieval of learning experiences that are sustainable and scaleable over time eg effective tools for recording e-portfolios
4. Informality- -students abandon technology if it is perceived as an intrusion into their social networks eg personal spaces/SMS etc
5. Ownership- Student-centred learning is about personalised learning however, students want to control their personal technology which challenges them when they bring into the classroom eg Consider costs, usability, technical and institutional support
Welcome to moblog:UK
Moblogging is taking pictures and videos with your camera phone and putting them on the internet. Learn more.Get started now, it's easy!
moblog:UK widgetsPut moblog:UK on your blog or site with widgets like this one:
Manage your upload destinationsAdding new destinations right from your phone makes sharing easy. And you can upload to just one or all destinations for the cost of just one upload
Practical task today - using your mobile phone take a photo and send it to the address below:
How to send (or moblog) image audio, or videos to your blog site
• a blog site: eg. [email protected]
• your email account: eg. [email protected]
Moblogging
Open source social software is Free Readily available to most students who have access to an internet
browser
Commonly used social software currently used are: Blogs /wikis Blip.tv Mobile uploads Blipfoot preferences
You can e-mail video from your cellphone to blip.tv.
You're all set to share video from the road with your cell phone and blip.tv! To do it, just e-mail the video to:
RSS Aggregator Bloglines Audioblogging/Moblogging Flickr and Social bookmarking – Del.icio.us Folksonommies
Commonly used software tools
Bloghttp://blogger.com/ Wikihttp://wikispaces.com
Social Bookmarkshttp://del.icio.us
Blog Finder-http://www.technorati.com
How to get feeds into your Blog using RSS aggregator or RSS readerhttp://www.bloglines.com
How to search for feeds using RSS directories to add to your bloghttp://www.feedster.com/ How to tag your images tagging ‘Folksonomies’ http://www.flickr.com/photos/necton_lodge/
Connectivism
L&I will be looking for teaching sections who wish to explore mobile technologies and web 2.0 tools in 2008
Possibilities to consider in your teaching section– Providing student support tools and resources in a
simple, easy to use format
– New ways of delivering our courses in a cost effective and timely manner that offers more flexibility to teachers and learners
– Assist disengaged students to become part of a learning community thus increasing retention and completion rates
How to get involved
What is the Future of Mobile Technology!
As mobile technology becomes more ubiquitous (for the ULearner) and interoperable with networks applications ( organisation’s intranets and internets) with enhanced capabilities for rich social interactions using Web 2.0 type services ( .3.0, 4.0 by 2015) it will become more and more embedded as a flexible learning option to students studying in VET.
These technologies will assist work-based learning environments as we will move more and more outside the classroom and ’in the field’ where industry base learning will be both real and virtual.
Thus, becoming more situated personal, collaborative, connected and lifelong
It’s no use his mobile is switched off…
mmm…Learning
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