mobile learning / portable thoughts

Mobile Learning/Portable Thoughts

Mary LasicaAT&T Education Specialist Team

Mobile Learning/Portable Thoughts

Mobile Devices• Operating Systems• Native Applications• Third Party Apps

Learning• Information• Processing• Sharing• Evaluation

Portable Devices• Operating Systems• Capabilities with Third

Party Apps

Learning• Information• Processing• Sharing• Evaluation

How do you learn?

How do you access information?

How do you process information?

How do you create/work?

How/where do you share your creations/work?

How do you evaluate the process of learning? How do you evaluate your creations/work? How do others evaluate your creations/work?

It comes back to learning…

Mobile Learning- Accessing Information

TextAudioGraphicsVideo

Pre-loaded•Selected•Pushed

On demand

Incidental

Websites Podcasts Applications

Content Delivery Systems

Mobile Learning- Accessing Information

What happens when your concept of accessing/acquiring information is in

conflict with someone else’s concept?

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

Mobile Learning- ProcessingRespond

Copy

Discuss

Repeat

Record

Question

Organize

Synthesize

Mobile Learning- Processing

How do you process information in mobile situations? How do the tools handle it? What tools are emerging to help you process information better?

Mobile Learning- Creation

MobileCamera

Still Images Video

MicrophoneNotes

SpreadsheetSlides

Word Processing

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Student creation within classroom situations is tied to evaluation. Is there conflict on your campuses when it comes to evaluation?

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=1184&title=Digital_Students___Analog_Schools


• How do student assignments take advantage of mobile/portable technologies?

• What tools are emerging as effective for creation of student assignments?

• What tools would be useful to add to the suite of available tools for educational use?

Mobile Learning-Evaluation

• How are mobile technologies used in evaluation on your campuses?

• Over the past ten years, what methods of evaluation have emerged as effective in educational settings?

Mobile Learning-Evaluation

Back to Learning…

In this culture where entertainments are varied and constant, how do you engage students in the process of learning?

How is evaluation keeping up with learning in the 21st Century?

How much can change if students are evaluated for graduate programs and employment?

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Other Questions…

How can educators and students deal with the overwhelming amount of education?

How can educators and students manage the communications implied by changes in mobile learning?