facilitating students collaboration with mobile devices

FACILITATING STUDENTS’

COLLABORATION WITH

MOBILE DEVICESAlan Wong and Janet Cheung

Centre for Learning and Teaching

BY THE END OF THE

WORKSHOP, PARTICIPANTS

WILL BE ABLE TO

• facilitate information presentation, file

sharing, progress monitoring and giving

responses in and outside classroom;

• and collaboratively brainstorm and present

ideas in and outside classroom.

A FILM DIRECTOR

• 130 nominations.

• Won 3 Oscars.

• Another 158 wins

• Net Worth $3.5 billion

• Annual Salary $150

million

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/

STEVEN SPIELBERG• When I was a kid, there was

no collaboration; it's you with

a camera bossing your

friends around.

• But as an adult, filmmaking

is all about appreciating the

talents of the people you

surround yourself with and

knowing you could never

have made any of these

films by yourself.

• Steven Spielberg

A COMPANY• Rank 5 in Fortune

500 2014

• Market Value

479,069 $ Millions

• if one of it’s

products were their

own companies,

they’d be as big

as…

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/07/22/apple_earnings_iphone_revenues_are_as_big_as_amazon.html

"Apple is an incredibly collaborative company,"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYCe9rXnBh4

COLLABORATION

COLLABORATIVE

LEARNING• The term "collaborative learning" refers to an

instruction method in which students at

various performance levels work together in

small groups toward a common goal

(Gokhale, 1995).

Criteria or generative

mechanismCooperative Collaborative

educational theory

knowledge

operating method

goals knowledge

structure

knowledge

activities

teacher roles

student roles

Criteria or generative

mechanismCooperative Collaborative

educational theory

knowledge

•social interdependence theory

•cognitive development theory

•behavioral learning theory

social nature of

human

operating method highly directive less directive

goals knowledgespecific skills &

knowledgediscovery of skills

structure formal, organized self-derived

knowledge traditional, canonical

constructivistic,

ambiguous, help

students adapt/adopt

to culture

activities

predetermined

individual and group

measures

consensus building

teacher rolesformal, oversight,

specificfacilitative, coaching(Markulis, & Strang, 2002 , p117)

HOW?

Clearly specify the

academic task

Explain collaborative

learning structure

Explain

“Why”

Listen &

commentsReflect

Contribut

e

Group solution

WHY MOBILE?

THE MAIN ROLES OF

MOBILE TECHNOLOGY

• providing an environment to enable

conversation

• enabling learners to build models in order to

solve problem

(Laurillard, 2013)

TOOLS?

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CRITERIA OF CHOOSING

MOBILE LEARNING APPS

PEDAGOGICAL

FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE

LEARNING

(Park, 2011)

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REFERENCESGokhale, A. A. (1995). Collaborative learning enhances critical

thinking.

Laurillard, D. (2013). Rethinking university teaching: A

conversational framework for the effective use of learning

technologies. Routledge.

Markulis, P. M., & Strang, D. R. (2002). Learning Cooperatively May

Not Be Learning Collaborately!. Developments in Business

Simulation and Experiential Learning, 29.

Park, Y. (2011). A pedagogical framework for mobile learning:

Categorizing educational applications of mobile technologies into

four types. The International Review of Research in Open and

Distance Learning, 12(2), 78-102.