Lyn PembertonMarcus Winter

Interactive Technologies Research Group

University of Brighton, UK

SIMOLA: Helping Language

Learners Bridge the Gap

ICT for Language

Learning

Florence 20-21 Oct

2011

The Mobile Phone as Menace

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387291/Mobile-phones-wi-fi-banned-schools-theyre-potentially-harmful.html

The Mobile Phone as Swiss Army Knife

camera

text phone

cameracalculator

atlas/map

notebook

videocamera

recorder

Web browser

The Mobile Phone as bridge

The Mobile Phone as Bridge

What do we hope for our students? Effective learning Deep cognitive processing Making and strengthening links between

concepts Memorisation, discussion, exams,

essays, re-representations… Making connections between different

contexts – lecture theatre, lab, town, workplace, home, outdoors, media, etc (even different modules)

LingoBee – a mobile app to…Collect, annotate and tag unknown, interesting or odd language and culture related content found in everyday life in target language setting

Pool these items with other language learners in an online repository and distribute them via rss or SMS alerts

Our target users

design process

focus groups

design sessions

I saw this and thought of 18th Century rural economics

What’s a free house?

I saw this and thought of 18th Century rural economics

What’s a high street bank?

What’s the word/phrase?

Hey that’s not right – I’ll write my own entry

Show me a pictureHow’s it pronounced?

How would you tag it?

What’s the meaning?

Is there a link?

Evaluation with University of Sussex pre-sessional language students will international students use the

system? how do they use it? what do teachers think? does it help the students’ learning and

engagement?

ethics

funding

and?

phones

ethics

funding

most suitable for advanced students needs to be super-usable phones need to belong to students students like social media aspects

(anonymity issue) teachers found ways to integrate

into classroom teaching and combine in- and outside class work

issues of authoritativeness and misuse

SIMOLA – Lifelong Learning Project for European Union

Two years - EU 450,000 - began Nov 2010 Seven EU partners & Tokyo U of Agriculture

and Technology University of Brighton Study Group, UK Regional Community College of Amsterdam University of Molise, Italy Baltic Educational Technology Institute, Lithuania Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim Hungarian Virtual University

ethics

What next?

If you have an Android phone, download the app and tell us what you think

Encourage Android-owning students to use it See how online version goes down in class Get RSS updates to your FaceBook or iGoogle

page

Like to contribute?

Demouy, V. and A. Kukulska-Hulme.(2010). On the spot: using mobile devices for listening and speaking practice on a French language programme. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25(3), pp. 217–232.

Kukulska-Hulme, A. & S. Bull (2009). Theory-based support for mobile language learning: noticing and recording. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 3(2), pp. 12–18. http://oro.open.ac.uk/15704/

Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & S. Fallahkhair. 2009. A User Created Content Approach to Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Advanced Language Learners. Proceedings of mLearn 2009, Orlando, Florida, pp. 184-187.

Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & S. Fallahkhair. 2010. Collaborative Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Language Learners. Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, Vol 6, No 1 (2010)http://rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/viewArticle/76

Thank you – any questions?

Lyn : Lyn.Pemberton@bton.ac.uk Marcus : Marcus.Winter@bton.ac.uk