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MOBILE LEARNING CONNECTING FORMAL AND INFORMAL Kim Flintoff

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MOBILE LEARNINGCONNECTING FORMAL AND INFORMAL

Kim Flintoff

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THEMATIC WORKING GROUP #2http://www.curtin.edu.au/edusummit/local/docs/edusummit2015-ebook.pdf

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MOBILE IS ABOUT ACTION, NOT DEVICES

Erin Reilly

Image by Tom Cochrane: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/4972619950

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MOBILE LEARNING

A REVOLUTIONARY TURN

▸ Continuous Learning

▸ Educational Leapfrogging

▸ Lifelong Learning (and Teaching)

▸ Removing Gender Boundaries

▸ New Literacies (or Fluencies)

▸ Advancing the “long tail” of education

▸ Shifting roles for teachers and learners

▸ Changing practices of delivery, engagement and consumption

▸ Transforming traditional education institutions

▸ Paving the way for customisation and personalisation

from http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669896/10-ways-that-mobile-learning-will-revolutionize-education

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21ST CENTURY ESSENTIALS:FOOD, SHELTER AND SIM CARD

New York Times/TIME

MOBILE LEARNING

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/a-21st-century-migrants-checklist-water-shelter-smartphone.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0http://time.com/4062120/see-how-smartphones-have-become-a-lifeline-for-refugees/

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MOBILE LEARNING

PEDAGOGY

▸ Shifting to contextualised learning

▸ Not a portal to the classroom

▸ Appropriately scaled

▸ Learner centred

▸ Positive Interdependence

▸ Authentic

▸ New assessment models Kearney, M., Schuck, S., Burden, K., & Aubusson, P. (2012). Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective. Research In Learning Technology, 20. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v20i0.14406

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MOBILE LEARNING

POLICY

▸ Link with broader educational policy

▸ Bans are not the way forward

▸ Teachers’ professional learning

▸ Prioritise diversity

▸ Support evolving practice

▸ Accessibility - UDL

▸ Address equity issues

▸ Connectivity as a right

▸ Safety

▸ Ongoing Improvement

unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002196/219641e.pdf

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MOBILE LEARNING

TECHNOLOGY

Image: Wilgengebroed on Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/wilgengebroed/8249565455/

▸ Wearables

▸ Smart Textiles

▸ Screen devices

▸ Internet of Things

▸ Sensors

▸ Communication

▸ Data

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MOBILE LEARNING

RESEARCH

▸ Consider impact of informal learning

▸ SoTL - Mobile strategies for educators

▸ Social impact of mobile learning

▸ New modes of assessment

▸ Big DataStudents’ Mobile Learning Practices in Higher Education: A Multi-Year Study (2015)by Baiyun Chen, Ryan Seilhamer, Luke Bennett and Sue Bauerhttp://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/6/students-mobile-learning-practices-in-higher-education-a-multiyear-study

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MOBILE LEARNING

QUANTIFIED LEARNER▸ Learners become transmedial

▸ Always on

▸ Learners as data engines

▸ Augmented cognition

▸ Personalisation and individualisation

Keoni Cabral - Wearable Technologyhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/keoni101/7069578953

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MOBILE LEARNING

REIMAGINING THE LEARNER AS TRANSMEDIALBronfenbrenner, 1979

Flintoff and Howell, 2015

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MOBILE LEARNING

ENABLING AND SUPPORTING MOBILITY

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MOBILE LEARNING

ENABLING AND SUPPORTING MOBILITY

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MOBILE LEARNING

FURTHER INVESTIGATION

http://www.scoop.it/t/mobile-learning-in-higher-education